Resources

Mental Health Hotlines

Postpartum

• The Postpartum Stress Center: https://postpartumstress.com/
• Postpartum Support International: https://www.postpartum.net/, 1-800-944-4773
• Birth Injury Center – birthinjurycenter.org/

Suicide

• Samaritans Suicide Hotline 24/7 Support: Call or text 24/7, (877) 870-4673 (HOPE)
• Mental Health First Aid: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/topics/mental-health-first-aid/

Youth – Adult

• The Youth Alliance: https://theyouthalliance.com/resources/help-hotlines/ **an abundance of hotlines found in this site for ALL ages
• National LGBTQ+ Hotline: https://www.glbthotline.org/national-hotline.html
• PFLAG: https://pflag.org/hotlines
• LGBTQIA+, BULLYING, CYBER-BULLYING GUIDE: cutterlaw.com/social-media-and-cyberbullying-guide/
• The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Substance

• 1-800-QUIT-NOW
• SAMHSA: https://www.samhsa.gov/

Divorce

• Jane Does Well (women in divorce) https://www.janedoeswell.org/

Additional Resources

ADHD

• Taking Charge of ADHD, Barkley https://a.co/d/gyulTZ3
• Driven to Distraction, Hallowell https://a.co/d/jm6Zy8V
• ADHD, https://www.raptitude.com/2009/03/how-to-keep-life-fresh-for-free/
• ADHD, https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/symptoms-of-inattentive-adhd/
• ADHD, https://howtoadhd.com/

Anger

• Taking Charge of Anger, Nay https://a.co/d/bpLlJLa
• When Someone You Love is Angry https://a.co/d/hDwOERC

Bipolar Disorder

• Welcome to the Jungle, Smith https://a.co/d/3ALGFD0
• Living with Someone who’s Living with Bipolar, Lowe https://a.co/d/324u1nu

Family

• Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships, Tawwab https://a.co/d/iX022YS
• Set Boundaries, Fine Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, Tawwab https://a.co/d/7zk7pLZ

Grief & Loss

• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand, Megan Devine https://a.co/d/3CjFiPG
• Pet Loss Support, https://www.lapoflove.com/our-services/pet-loss-support?mibextid=kdkkhi&fbclid=IwAR0G3STQdQxvXSz1jY8IGimvejiDD6ISx6sUdYRCX5h9_RzhvCgdd4uH2XY
• Grief Support, https://childrensroom.org/
• Grief Support, https://www.dougy.org/

Health

• THE XX BRAIN: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease https://a.co/d/fLMAyIu
• Menses, https://www.verywellmind.com/how-your-energy-changes-on-your-menstrual-cycle-5115670

Infertility

• Infreakinfertility: How to Survive When Getting Pregnant Gets Hard, Dale https://a.co/d/9qY1kYt

Loss Of A Baby

• Birth Story Held for Loss: A Guide for Reflecting on Your Fertility Experience, Miscarriage, Abortion, TFMR, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss, Emily Souder, LCSW-C, PMH-C https://a.co/d/1Y6Wdoa

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

• The Imp of the Mind, Baer https://a.co/d/3a3QQUg
• Brain Lock, Schwartz https://a.co/d/goxkoOu
• OCD, https://jennaoverbaughlpc.com/

Parenting

• Parental Mental Health: Factoring in Fathers, Honikman and Singley https://a.co/d/hizCvr2
• Mothering Without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within https://a.co/d/cAcwbL9
• How To Talk To Your Kids About Violence: https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/school-safety-and-crisis/school-violence-resources/talking-to-children-about-violence-tips-for-parents-and-teachers
• From Boys to Men, Maggie Dent https://a.co/d/bpDvb42
• Middle School Matters, Phyllis L. Fagell, https://a.co/d/e2OGXmQ
• Everyday Parenting Toolkit, Kazdin, https://a.co/d/2xgGchI
• The Way of Boys, Rao, https://a.co/d/bWsZ4X0
• The Kazdin Method, Kazdin, https://a.co/d/hyiSbbN
• The Birth Order Book: Why You Are The Way You Are, Leman, https://a.co/d/bB9mpYo
• The Whole Brain Child, Siegel, https://a.co/d/24Hdp9y
• No Drama Discipline, Siegel, https://a.co/d/exDCIpu
• How to Get Unstuck from the Negative Muck, Sullivan, https://a.co/d/fKHSxSu
• How to Get Unstuck from the Negative Muck Journal, Sullivan, https://a.co/d/iKg8VGW
• The Hair-Raising Joys of Raising Boys, Meurer, https://a.co/d/4bpfOfK
• Super-Kids Activity Guide, Abraham, https://a.co/d/4aS2fUu
• Raising Your Spirited Child, A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, & Energetic, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, https://a.co/d/0n86r3m
• Parenting from the Inside Out, Siegel, https://a.co/d/1uFhTLH

Perinatal – Postpartum

• PSI, https://www.postpartum.net/get-help/loss-grief-in-pregnancy-postpartum/
• Motherhood: Facing & Finding Yourself, https://a.co/d/elNaIv8
• Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, https://www.sart.org/
• Angels & Ghosts in the Nursery, https://www.wilder.org/articles/angels-and-ghosts-nursery-trauma-informed-child-parent-therapy
• A Deeper Shade of Blue: A Woman’s Guide to Recognizing and Treating Depression in Her Childbearing Years, Nonacs, https://a.co/d/7hH1Isw
• Pregnancy Sucks: What to do When your Miracle Makes you Miserable (a humorous book written by a comedienne), Kimes, https://a.co/d/9YGva2y
• Pregnancy Sucks for Men: What to do When your Miracle Makes you Both Miserable, Kimes, https://a.co/d/3DB0ide
• Mama has HG (hyperemesis gravidarum), But Only for a While, McCall, https://a.co/d/2r1vDdG
• Beyond Morning Sickness: Battling Hyperemesis Gravidarum, McCall, https://a.co/d/69oJqeE
• Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/hcczOws
• What About Us?: A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your Over-Anxious, Over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/7Pjser2
• Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/iS23ew9
• What Am I Thinking: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/hEIxqOx
• This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/5tkAvSi
• Tokens of Affection: Reclaiming Your Marriage After Postpartum Depression, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/biQFc4Z
• Moods in Motion (coloring and affirmations book), Kleiman, https://a.co/d/f3IJ19g
• The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression, Kleiman, https://a.co/d/ctREsod
• Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, https://a.co/d/3CrQphy
• Pregnancy After a Loss: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death, Lanham, https://a.co/d/hB1LzhX
• Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide for Pregnancy After a Loss, Ross-White, https://a.co/d/aVU2kMg
• Surviving the Unimaginable: Stories of Coping with Pregnancy & Infancy Loss, Vermont, https://a.co/d/6cHJOSQ
• Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving, Collins, https://a.co/d/7tHBnnq

Personality Disorders

• Stop Walking on Eggshells, Mason, https://a.co/d/c3EeNIC
• Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Eddy, https://a.co/d/1DRrXRZ
• The Sociopath Next Door, Stout, https://a.co/d/cPyUKKU
• The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse, Mirza, https://a.co/d/eAi8icP
• Gaslighting: The Narcissist’s Favorite Tool of Manipulation – How to Avoid the Gaslight Effect and Recover from Emotional and Narcissistic Abuse, Dr. Theresa J. Covert, https://a.co/d/8Qonz8r
• Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse, Morningstar, https://a.co/d/ba2RS2y
• Stop Manipulating Me! Identifying Narcissism, Disarming A Narcissist & Overcoming Narcissistic Abuse, Howard, https://a.co/d/g7XTisq

Relationships

• The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman, https://a.co/d/5bCqa78
• Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, John Gray, https://a.co/d/8BtitRI
• THE MENTAL LOAD CARTOON: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/
• We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship, Khadeen & Devale Ellis, https://a.co/d/gvRQ0GC
• Stop Getting Gaslighted: Recognize and Understand Manipulative and Narcissistic Behavior, Learn How to Recover from its Emotional Abuse and be in Control of Your Emotions, Clark, https://a.co/d/61pHKwe
• The Enneagram in Love: A Roadmap for Building and Strengthening Romantic Relationships, Hall, https://a.co/d/9SJl5HX
• The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love, Whitmoyer-Ober, https://a.co/d/0JSPwlB

Self-help

• The Highly Sensitive Person, Aron, https://a.co/d/hHaGUU7
• Inside my Heart, McGraw, https://a.co/d/4mVKJq4
• Life Strategies, McGraw, https://a.co/d/b10LTqV
• How to Make Yourself Happy, Ellis, https://a.co/d/inl2QCd
• A Guide to Rational Living, Ellis, https://a.co/d/7rnTxma
• Live the Life you Love, Sher, https://a.co/d/j1IB50W
• Girl, Wash Your Face, Hollis, https://a.co/d/7dKeMlc
• I Could do Anything, if Only I knew What it Was, Sher, https://a.co/d/fHzzR5l
• Bad Childhood, Good Life, Schlessinger, https://a.co/d/8QAdPqq
• I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help, Amador, https://a.co/d/jkEse0o
• Fierce Self-Compassion: How women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive, Kristin Neff, PhD, https://a.co/d/dFoNj2K
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Gibson, https://a.co/d/3hK79Ds
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, Fogg, https://a.co/d/gnkyH19
• The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic, by Emma, https://a.co/d/iq5oCDX
• The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff, by Emma, https://a.co/d/f8PXKFT

Substance Abuse

• Open Book, Jessica Simpson, https://a.co/d/amiv3tH
• Drinking, A Love Story, Knapp, https://a.co/d/5G7AMtm
• Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Health, Nutt, https://a.co/d/aKydEZE
• If You Love Me, Cavanagh, https://a.co/d/j7Vm3vK

Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, https://a.co/d/4BlJCPx
• The Body Keeps the Score Workbook, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, https://a.co/d/4XH1QkW
• Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, https://a.co/d/2JNqQgA
• Running on Empty, Webb, https://a.co/d/hU6OopS
• Journey Through Trauma: A Trail Guide to the 5-Phase Cycle of Healing, Schmelzer, https://a.co/d/2H3kj0g

Tools

• The Emotion Behavior Wheel, https://lindsaybraman.com/emotion-behavior-wheel/