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Resources & Links

A small and carefully curated collection of books, practices, and supportive tools recommended by Dr. Maria Bloomfield to deepen your healing and self-understanding. These resources are intended to gently support reflection, emotional awareness, and continued growth between sessions.

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Phases of Life

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
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by Meg Jay
Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
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by Satya Doyle Byock
Hagitude Reimagining the Second Half of Life
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by Sharon Blackie
Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging
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by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer

Shadow Emotions & Experiences (Depression, Anxiety, Addictions, Mental Health Diagnosis) 

Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves
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by James Hollis
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
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by Lama Tsultrim Allione
Escape from Freedom
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by Erich Fromm
The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire
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by Lisa Marchiano
Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
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by Barbara Ehrenreich
Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters
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by Robert Augustus Masters Ph.D
Am I Lying to Myself?
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by Jane Greer Phd (about shadow work in relationships)
Understanding Psychological Projection (how our shadow impacts the relationships)
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by Robert A. Johnson
Escape from freedom
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by Erich Fromm
The Unshaming Way
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by David Bedrick
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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by Kristin Neff
Holding the Tension of the Opposites
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by Marion Woodman
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Close Encounters with Addiction
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by Gabor Maté
Untamed
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by Glennon Doyle
A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps
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by Stephanie S. Covington
The Meaning of Anxiety
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by Rollo May
Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
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by Kay Redfield Jamison
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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by Susan Cain
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
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by Jenara Nerenberg
Adult Autism Essentials: A Step-By-Step Approach to Navigating Relationships, Professional Life and Finding Resources While Celebrating Our Strengths
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by Jason Jones
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
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by Simon Baron-Cohen
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
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by Gabor Maté MD
No bad Parts
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by Richard Schwartz
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work"
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Relationships

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
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by Harriet Lerner
The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships
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by Diane Poole Heller and Peter Levine
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment
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by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
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by Polly Young-Eisendrath
The Art of Loving
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by Erich Fromm
Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate
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by Stan Tatkin
In Each Other's Care: A Guide to the Most Common Relationship Conflicts and How to Work Through Them
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by Stan Tatkin
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
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by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy and What You Can Do About It
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by Resmaa Menakem
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
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by Harville Hendrix

Inner Peace and Empowerment

Women Who Run with the Wolves
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by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Kore Goddess: A Mythology and Psychology
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by Safron Rossi
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
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by Christine Downing and Maureen Murdock
Goddesses in Everywoman
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by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity
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by Marion Woodman
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
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by Maria Tatar
Women and Power
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by Mary Beard
Kinds of Power: A Guide to Its Intelligent Uses
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by James Hillman
Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted
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by Polly Young-Eisendrath
If Women Rose Rooted
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by Sharon Blackie

Marriage

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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by John Gottman
The New Rules of Marriage
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by Terrence Real
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
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by Terrence Real
Relationship Rx: Insights and Practices to Overcome Chronic Fighting
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by Stan Tatkin
We Do: Saying Yes to a Relationship of Depth
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by Stan Tatkin
Mating in Captivity
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by Esther Perel

Divorce

Why Can't I Just Leave?
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by Kristen Milstead and Sandra L. Brown
When Things Fall Apart
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by Pema Chodron
Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After
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by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Divorce (or Not) A Guide Part I
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by Joseph Shaub
Divorce (or Not) A Guide Part II
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by Joseph Shaub
Divorce Wisdom
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by Juliet Laycoe

Pregnancy, Motherhood, Parenting

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
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by Ina May Gaskin
Touchpoints: Birth to Three
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by T. Berry Brazelton
Down Came the Rain
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by Brooke Shields
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
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by Eve Rodsky
How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
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by Jancee Dunn
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
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by Lisa Marchiano
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
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by Jessica Grose
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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by Adrienne Rich and Eula Biss
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood
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by Estela V. Welldon
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
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by Becky Kennedy
Parenting from the Inside Out
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by Daniel Siegel
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
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by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting: Raising Children with Courage, Compassion, and Connection
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by Brené Brown
Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
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by Peggy Orenstein
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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by Mary Pipher and Sara Gilliam
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
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by Peggy Orenstein

Hormones, Living in the Rhythm with Nature

Her Blood Is Gold
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by Lara Owen
WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive
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by Alisa Vitti
In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life
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by Alisa Vitti
The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality
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by Sara Gottfried
The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday
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by Sharon Blackie
Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power
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by Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope

Trauma & PTSD Healing

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
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by Lindsay C. Gibson
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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by Alice Miller
Warming the Stone Child: Myths and Stories about Abandonment and the Unmothered Child
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by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Emotional Inheritance
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by Galit Atlas
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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by Mark Wolynn
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
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by John Bradshaw
The Trauma of Everyday Life
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by Mark Epstein
A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD
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by Arielle Schwartz
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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by Pete Walker
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
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by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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by Judith Lewis Herman
Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its Interruption
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by Donald Kalsched
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
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by Peter A. Levine

Social Justice

The Second Sex
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by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique
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by Betty Friedan
Hood Feminism
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by Mikki Kendall
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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by Judith Butler
My Grandmother's Hands
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by Resmaa Menakem
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
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by Ruby Hamad
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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by Bell Hooks
Sister Outsider
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by Audre Lorde
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
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by Carol Gilligan
A People's History of the United States
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by Howard Zinn
Black Bodies, White Gazes
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by George Yancy
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma and Healing
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by Jennifer Mullan

Men

How Can I Get Through to You?
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by Terrence Real
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
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by Terrence Real
He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
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by Robert Johnson
Iron John
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by Robert Bly

Practical: Finances, Career, Business

Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World
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by Lisa Bloom
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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by Iain McGilchrist
All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan
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by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
Women and Money
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by Suze Orman
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
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by Jeff Olson and John David Mann
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke
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by Suze Orman
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich
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by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
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by David Bach
She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur
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by Carrie Green
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
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by Arianna Huffington
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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by Sheryl Sandberg
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating
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by Brian Tracy
The Willpower Instinct
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by Kelly McGonigal

Self-Regulation

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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by James Nestor
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection
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by Deb Dana
The Polyvagal Card Deck, 58 Practices for Calm and Change
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by Deb Dana
The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma: Body-Based Activities to Regulate, Rebalance, and Rewire Your Nervous System Without Reliving the Trauma
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by Arielle Schwartz
101 Power Thoughts
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by Louise Hay (Keep nearby or scatter throughout the house. Also available on Audible.)
Louise Hay's Affirmations for Self-Esteem. A 12-Card Deck for Loving Yourself
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Bedtime Stories: A Unique Guided Relaxation Program for Falling Asleep and Entering the World of Dreams
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by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Headspace App
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Targeted multi-day meditation and breathwork programs
Yoga and Meditation on Gaia and Guided Meditations
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by Bernie Clark and Colleen Saidman Yee (peace in uncertainty, coming home to the body, healthy relationships)

Free Resources

Insight Timer: Resources for guided meditations (Arielle Schwartz's content is especially recommended.)
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Trauma-Informed Yoga
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by Arielle Schwartz
Free resource for movement
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Yoga, dance, strength training, fascia flossing, nutrition, meditations, breath-work, physical therapy exercises
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