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RESOURCES

COVID-19 RESOURCES

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
San Francisco Suicide Prevention: (415) 781-0500

Crisis Text Line: Text 741-741
Text with a trained volunteer to help you through difficult moments. ​
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 DATING AND RELATIONSHIPS

ARTICLES 
  • How to Flirt, According to Science
  • If Connection is Our Core Human Need then why are we so bad at it? 
  • Heartalytics Blog

BOOKS
  • If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path by Charlotte Kasl
  • Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober) by Harlan Cohen
  • Helen Fischer: Why Him, Why Her?
  • Your Brain on Love by Stan Tatkin 
  • Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
  • Attached: The Science of Adult Attachment by Amir Levine ​
  • True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • ​Calling in the One by Katherine Woodward Thomas

QUIZZES
  • Diane Poole Heller's attachment style assessment
  • More In depth Attachment Quiz
  • Values Survey
  • Helen Fisher, What's your Type?
  • 5 Languages of Love: What's Your Love Language?

E-COURSES
  • The Attachment Project with Dan Brown - Test + E-course
  • Dan Siegel and Lisa Firestone on Rewriting your Attachment Story
  • Developing Secure Attachment

Podcasts
  • Dateable
  • Modern Love
  • Love With Integrity: How To Manage Relationship Anxiety

MINDFULNESS + MEDITATION

CUSHIONS
  • Brentwood Home
  • Sitting Matters
  • Project Full 

MEETINGS
  • Young Urban Zen (age 25-35) at SF Zen Center
  • SF Dharma Collective 
  • Meditation Meetings Insight SF
  • 8 week Mindful Self Compassion with Lea Seigen-Shinraku
  • 8 week Mindful Self Compassion with Ashley Crouch 

CLASSES
  • Within Meditation
  • Anchor Meditation
  • Mindful Self-Compassion Courses 
  • Radical Compassion Handouts & Resources
  • ​UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
  • About Tonglen Heart Meditation​
  • Free Guided Meditations

APPS
  • Calm
  • Headspace
  • Insight Timer
  • Journey Meditation
  • Oak Meditation + Breathing
  • Liberate Meditation

FOR COUPLES

COURSES + RESOURCES
  • Prepare-Enrich Premarital Counseling
  • Gottman Institute

​BOOKS
  • ​Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
  • Passionate Marriage by David Schnarch
  • ACT with Love by Russ Harris, MD
  • Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
  • The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
  • The Mindful Relationship by Lauren Korshak
  • Conscious Uncoupling by Katherine Woodward Thomas

PODCASTS
  • Where Should We Begin? by Esther Perel​

ANTIRACISM
BOOKS
  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
  • How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

RESOURCES
  • ​Writing Prompts to Use if You've been Accused of White Fragility - by Leesa Renee Hall
  • Dive In Well- an organization supporting diversity in wellness
  • Video explaining White Fragility
  • Eddie Moore's 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge 

ORGANIZATIONS
  • Surge Institute - Oakland based
  • ​Center for Policing Equity - Data Science for justice that measures bias in policing 
  • Open Justice Initiative - help shape the law in service of justice
  • Equal Justice Initiative 
  • ​Black Lives Matter
  • Live Free USA
  • Adopt-A-State - help save votes in a key battleground state

COMMUNICATION + EMOTIONS

APPS
  • MoodNotes "Dental Floss for your mind" (for identifying cognitive distortions)
  • Mentegram for tracking your mental health

RESOURCES
  • Zephyr Wellness & The Mental Matters Podcast
  • Identifying Emotions with the Zephyr Wellness

PODCASTS
  • Brene Brown podcast​

BOOKS 
  • Non Violent Communication
  • An extended introduction to Non Violent Communication (NVC)
  • Get out of your Mind and Into Your Life by Stephen Hayes
  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
  • The Art of Listening
  • Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton



FOR MEN

MOVIE + RESOURCES
  • The Mask You Live In
  • Men's Collective Meet Up or Facebook
  • The Art of Manliness 
  • ​The Mankind Project
  • John Wineland Coaching and Retreats

GROUPS
  • San Francisco Men's Groups with Rob Schene
  • East Bay Men's Groups with Alexander Warnaw
  • IRL Men's Groups 

BOOKS
  • The Last American Man​ by Elizabeth Gilbert

FOR WOMEN

BOOKS
  • Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkole Estes

MOVIES
  • Miss Representation

WEBSITES & PODCASTS
  • Sistership Circle

MAKING PEACE WITH FOOD

BOOKS
  • Stop Bingeing, Start Living! by Shrein Bahremi
  • Within by Habib Sadeghi
  • Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole
  • Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnston, PhD.
  • Women, Food, and God by Geneen Roth

NEDA GROUPS/ OUTPATIENT THERAPY
  • Evolve Wellness
  • Kindful Body Online Eating Disorder Treatment
  • Eating Disorders Anonymous: Find a Support Group
  • Recovery Warriors: Find treatment centers, Podcasts, Resource
  • Rise Up + Recover – App
  • The Body Positive 
  • Free Eating Disorder Support Groups
  • Woodleaf Adult Professional IOP program
  • Online IOP: Brightheart Health
  • APTED-SF: A non-profit resource network of ED resources
  • ANAD: http://www.anad.org/
  • Online Mentor Support Community
  • About-Face

VIDEOS + Online Courses
  • Educational videos
  • Geneen Roth Courses

PERSONAL GROWTH TOOLS

COACHING + PODCASTS
  • The Art of the Feminine - coaching, podcasts, and more with Shannon Port 
  • COACH: Energy Psychology & Infinite Possibilities: Adriana Popescu

BOOKS​
  • The Core by Michael Assedo
  • Radical Forgiveness by Colin Tipping
  • Creating Community: A book by Charlotte Kasl
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TOOLS
Heart Math Free Tools

ENERGY WORK 
  • What is Polarity Therapy? Polarity Healing Arts
  • The International Center for Reiki Training

SOMATICS
  • The Focusing Institute
  • Authentic Movement
  • CIIS Somatic Psychology Program
  • Rosen Method
  • Body-Mind Centering

AGING

BOOKS
  • Still Here by Ram Dass
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • The Second Half of Life by Angeles Arrien
  • No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin

GRIEF, LOSS AND DIFFICULT TIMES

BOOKS
  • ​Healing into Life and Death by Stephen Levine (meditations)
  • Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion​
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WEBSITE
  • Stephen Jenkinson, Orphan Wisdom 
  • Grief.com

ADDICTION

SPECIALISTS
  • ​Erica Spartos Life Circle Recovery
  • Foundations San Francisco IOP
  • The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy: harmreductiontherapy.org
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MEETINGS
  • Find an AA Meeting in San Francisco or Marin
  • Smart Recovery
  • Access Institute
  • Refuge Recovery, A Buddhist Approach to Recovery​

TEENS

SUPPORT CENTERS
  • Coyote Coast Youth and Family Services
  • Muir Woods Residential & IOP Treatment Marin
  • Talkline Family Support Center in San Francisco
  • Comprehensive List of Support Services in San Francisco for Children and Families, published by Support for Families of Children with Disabilities

LECTURE
  • ​The Teenage Brain by Dr. Dan Siegel
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​BOOK
  • Transforming Stress for Teens
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