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RESOURCES
Here you can find resources to great books, podcasts, and research dedicated to therapy, mental health, and psychology! Take a look ....
Resources
Click below to see a few of my favorite, interesting resources!
Books
Podcasts
Research
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas G. Carr
How We Love: Discover Your Love Style, Enhance your Marriage, Milan and Kay Yerkovich
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Dr. Daniel G. Amen
PODCAST:
Im Not Your Shrink: The Podcast; Dr. Tracy Dalgleish. A clinical psychologist and couples therapist discusses attachment, motherhood, relationships, communication, boundaries, and more.
EPISODES:
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Dr. Daniel Amen ON: How to Change Your Life by Changing Your Brain & the Lies About Happiness That Are Increasing Depression (Sept. 26, 2022). Dr. Amen is a physician and a child/adult psychiatrist who discusses brain health and its impact on mood and psychological disorders.
Ask NT Wright Anything, #118 Mental Health: Am I failing God by taking medication? (May 19, 2022). A theologian discusses faith, mental health, and medication.
An article discussing the connection between social connectedness and mental health: Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Bialowolski, P., Lee, M.T., Chen, Y., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2022). Prospective associations between social connectedness and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and health insurance claims data. International Journal of Public Health, 67, Article 1604710: 1-9.
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Psychiatrist Dan Siegel's "Name it to Tame it" video on YouTube, briefly explaining a strategy on how to calm down the nervous system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDLzppD4Jc
Why Therapy?
Coping Skills
Learn to develop life-long coping skills to handle your emotions and situations more effectively.
Improved Physical Health
Our mind and body are intimately connected. Taking care of your mental health has shown to have positive effects on your physical health as well.
Better Relationships
Develop an understanding of the patterns you exhibit in your relationships and how to create healthier connections with yourself and the people in your life.
Healthy Communication Skills
Learn your current patterns of communication and develop a more effective way of communicating your thoughts, feelings, and desires, and improve conflict resolution.
Increased Hopefulness
Identifying the obstacles that stand between your goals can help you move you closer to feeling hopeful about the future.
Enhanced Mental Health
Work towards alleviating the symptoms of mental health conditions that impact your mind, work and relationships.
Other Things Therapy Can Help With
Therapy can help you learn to manage your anxiety or depression, deal with a major transition, implement better time management skills, develop effective communication techniques, learn coping skills to deal with stress, learn to manage intrusive thoughts and OCD, develop boundaries with your relationships and time, understand how your childhood impacts your current life, develop goals for yourself, identify obstacles and solutions to your problems, navigate difficult family dynamics, and develop greater self-awareness of your thoughts and feelings.
Your therapist cannot guarantee specific outcomes or results of the treatment they provide to you.