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Skill Building
How to use this page: Resources are divided across four categories that (1) emerge often in my work and (2) can be (at least partially) developed on your own. Multiple approaches are provided for developing each skill. All resources are practice-based. This list is not prescriptive and is intended as a supplement to therapeutic support. Resources are updated regularly.
Becoming Present
The capacity to be with reality as it is and without judgment. Typically developed via practice, study, and community.
Practice
Practice mindfulness using an approach that works for you.
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Tara Brach (free podcast; acceptance, awareness, and right action in troubled times)
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​Waking Up (app; exploring the illusion of a separate self; variety of teachers)
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Insight Timer (free app; variety of teachers and practices)
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Happier (app; practical, with focused courses on mood, sleep, etc.)
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Study
A selection of books to complement mindfulness practice.
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Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
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Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing by David Treleaven
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Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
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Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens, and Reverend angel Kyodo williams​
(Re)Connecting with the More-Than-Human World
The capacity to know and trust our belonging to the Earth and interconnection with all Beings.
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How to develop a Sit Spot (practice)
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Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma by Rochelle Calvert, Ph.D. (book)
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Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones
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Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with the Sacred Earth by Randy Woodley (book)
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram​​
Reclaiming Routine
The capacity to spend your days the way you most deeply want to spend your life.
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Attention Activism 101; Strother School of Radical Attention (online course)
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Atomic Habits by James Clear (book and app)
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For Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes (workbook)
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Reclaim Your Attention; Molly Caro May (course)
Resolving Trauma
The capacity to get safe today, remember harm from yesterday, and grow into a different future.
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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
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Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists by Janina Fisher
Interested in more skill building support? Consider joining DBT Skills Group for Turbulent Times.​