Book Recommendations:

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Introduction to Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz

No Bad Parts - Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz

You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For - Richard Schwartz

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Building a Life Worth Living - Marsha Linehan

DBT Skills Training Manual - Marsha Linehan

I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me - Jerold J. Kreisman, MD and Hal Straus

Stop Walking on Eggshells - Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger

The Buddha and the Borderline - Van Gelder

Books for Relationships

Attached - Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

The 5 Love Languages - Gary Chapman

Codependent No More - Melody Beattie

High-Conflict Couple - Alan Fruzzetti

The Highly Sensitive Person in Love - Elaine Aron

How to be an Adult in Love - David Richo

How to be the Love you Seek - Nicole LePera

The Seven Principles of Making a Marriage Work - John Gottman

Polysecure - Jessica Fern

The Ethical Slut - Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

Books for Self-Healing

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay Gibson

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk

The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

Getting Unstuck - Pema Chodron

The Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron

How to be the Love you Seek - Nicole LePera

My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Manakem

Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach

The Untethered Soul - Michael Singer

What Happened to You? - Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron

Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Punkola Estes

The Drama of the Gifted Child - Alice Miller

Self-Compassion - Kristen Neff

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Books for Social Justice

My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum

White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

White Privilege - Paula S. Rothenberg

Website Resources:

Borderline Personality/ Dialectical Behavioral Therapy:

Book Recommendations related to BPD/DBT

Family Connections

Family Connections - Borderline Personality Disorder/Emotion Dysregulation Program

Family Connections - Managing Suicidality and Trauma Recovery

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Call Blackline 1-800-604-5841

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Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860

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Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line 1-888-407-4515

-Trained peer supporters

Thrive Lifeline 1-313-662-8209

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LGBT National Help Center 1-888-843-4564

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Call 988 or go to 988lifeline.org

  • "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

    Carl Rogers

  • "You do not have to be the fire. You only have to be a curious and brave witness to it. The healing happens in the tending, not the burning."

    Amanda E. White

  • "It's not what happened to you, it's what happened inside of you as a result of what happened to you."

    Gabor Mate

  • "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

    Carl Jung

  • "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

    Alan Watts

  • "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have build against it."

    Rumi

  • "Emotions are not good or bad, they just are. It is what you do with them that makes a difference."

    Marsha Linehan

  • "What would you do if you loved yourself?"

    Kamal Ravikant

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