“Where you sense the shattering

of your health, home, or heart,

may you turn towards the shards

with tenderness + tenacity,

trusting your life can still become art

Joy isn’t done with you yet.”

—K. J. Ramsey

 

Resources for supplemental support

Emergency contacts / community numbers

  • trevor Project / LGBTQ+ and youth crisis hotline: 678-678

  • Maricopa Crisis Recovery Network, 602-222-9444

  • National Crisis Line, (800) 273-8255

  • HopeLine Suicide Hotline: ​​​​​1-800-SUICIDE

  • Sexual Assault Hotline RAINN: 800-656-HOPE (4673)

  • la frontera empact crsis line, 480-784-1500

  • Shelter Line (Maricopa County Only): 480-890-3039

  • 24-hour Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233

  • Crisis call/Text Line: 988

 
 

Recommended Reading By Topics 

Trauma Recovery  

  • What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

  • Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

  • Break The Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Burqué

  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  • No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

  • You Are The One You Are Waiting for by Richard Schwartz

  • The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. McBride

  • What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Consent 

  • In The House Of Me by Mel Gentry Bosna 

  • Consent (for Kids!) by Rachel Brian

  • Girlhood by Melissa Febos

  • The Wheel Of Consent by Betty Martin and Robyn Dalzen

  • Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel

  • Yes Means Yes by Jaclyn Friedman

Collective Liberation / Anti-Racism

  • All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep by Andre Henry

  • Do You Still Talk To Grandma by Brit Barron

  • Liberated To The Bone by Susan Raffo

  • This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley

  • An Indigenous History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

  • Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

  • Good & Mad by Rebecca Traister

  • How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

  • On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

  • Patriarchy Blues by Frederick Joseph

  • Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

  • Raising Anti-Racist Children by Britt Hawthrone 

  • Rest as Resistance by Tricia Hersey

  • She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

  • The Quaking of America by Resmaa Menace

  • UnBound by Tarana Burke

  • White Supremacy & Me by Layla Saad

  • All The Black Girls Are Activists by EbonyJanice

  • Be A Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

  • The Will To Change by bell hooks

  • Shoutin’ In The Fire by Dante Stewart

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

growth / Self-Help

  • As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve by J.S. Parks

  • The Kids Are All Right by Ben & Gabrielle Blair

  • and Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers by Theodore R. Burnes and Jamila Dawson

  • Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

  • Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

  • Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

  • Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

  • Push Off From Here by Laura McKowen

  • Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitaker

  • Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

  • Your Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor 

  • Could It Be Better by Cher Anderton

  • The Power Of Attachment by Diane Poole Heller

  • Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

  • Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabriele Blair


Recommended Listening

This list of podcast episodes is not an endorsement of any particular person/podcast but rather highlights the importance of the specific conversation that’s had in these episodes.


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