Free resources on a wide range of topics.Books, podcasts, and lots more coming soon.If you’d like to see something specific, don’t hesitate to write to us.
Books, podcasts, and lots more coming soon.If you’d like to see something specific, don’t hesitate to write to us.
Need lower cost counseling?
Check out Collective Healing and Expressive Wellness and their robust anti-oppressive internship counsellors (where our founder completed her graduate internship!).
If you’re in B.C. and need crisis support:
Anywhere in BC: 1-800-SUICIDE
Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789
Vancouver Coastal Regional Distress Line: 604-872-3311
Online Chat Service for Youth: www.YouthInBC.com
Online Chat Service for Adults: www.CrisisCentreChat.ca
A few of our favorite books:
mental health
— “No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model” by Richard Schwartz
— “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents” by Lindsay Gibson
— “Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, Politicizing Your Practice” by Dr. Jennifer Mullan (out in July 2023)
— “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
— “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto” by Tricia Hersey
— “Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity” by Devon Price
connecting with body outside of diet culture
— “Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation” by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
— “The Body is Not an Apology” by Sonya Renee Taylor
— “Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating” by Christy Harrison
— “Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness” by Da’Shaun Harrison
— “Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach” by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
Podcasts we love
In no particular order, a few podcasts we enjoy include:
Finding Our Way by Prentis Hemphill
Food Psych by Christy Harrison
Living in This Queer Body by Asher Pandjiris
The Fat Lip by Ash Nischuk
Numinous Podcast by Carmen Spagnola
Swoon: Love Lessons with Julie and Gina
Scene on Radio: Seeing White by John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika