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Supportive Tools

Your Own Path

Explore this diverse collection of books and tools designed to challenge and support your healing. Some material may be emotionally demanding; I encourage you to follow your own curiosity and engage only with what feels safe and truly beneficial for your unique journey.

Recommended Reading

More and more books are being published, many repeating similar information. Here is a

broad selection, some less mainstream to challenge your understanding and beliefs.

Follow your own curiosity and the ‘breadcrumbs’ in each book.

Crazy Like Us

Ethan Watters

A vital look at how cultural assumptions shape our mental health, encouraging a wider lens on individual suffering.

Cracked

James Davies

Challenges mainstream psychiatric models to help clients reflect on the true roots of their psychological distress.

Sedated

James Davies

Explores how society fixes mood rather than solving the social problems causing our internal pain.

The Happiness Trap

Russ Harris

Offers practical ACT-based tools to handle difficult thoughts and build a more meaningful life.

The Power of When

Michael Breus

Helps you align your life with your biology for better sleep, mood, and daily functionality.

When it is Darkest

Rory O’Connor

A compassionate guide to resilience and understanding the factors that lead to suicidal thoughts.

The Tapping Solution

Nick Ortner

Introduces EFT tapping as a somatically-grounded way to lower stress and regulate the nervous system.

The Inner Level

Wilkinson & Pickett

Links socioeconomic inequality to personal well-being, widening our perspective on chronic anxiety.

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

The definitive study on how trauma is stored in the body and how we can find release through physical awareness.

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

Chapman & White

Useful for coaching clients to understand their needs for validation and healthier professional relationships.

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

Examines how modern life creates isolation, helping clients see depression as a response to unmet needs.

A Straight-Talking Introduction to The Power Threat Meaning Framework

Boyle & Johnston

A radical shift from diagnosis to understanding what you had to do to survive. Grounding and empowering.

A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

Joanna Moncrieff

Provides necessary information to make informed choices about medication and its role in your recovery.

The Brain at Rest

Dr Joseph Jebelli

Valuable for understanding the neuroscience of rest and how our brains recover from overstimulation.

Hold onto your Kids

Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate

Crucial for parents focusing on attachment and building strong resilience in their children.

The Inner Level

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Analyzes how deeper social equality is the key to collective mental health and resilience.

Food Fight

Stuart Gillespie

Helps you reflect on the politics of nutrition and how what we eat impacts our mental clarity.

Moral Ambition

Rutger Bregman

Encourages us to find meaning by solving the world's most urgent problems rather than just getting by.

Humankind

Rutger Bregman

A hopeful perspective that challenges the idea of inherent human greed, aiding in building trust and connection.

It’s too late. Do it anyway

Cassie Thornton

A provocative call to action that introduces the Hologram model as a social technology to help us all in a world of over-professionalisation of care.

Dysfunctional Practices: that kill your safety culture (and what to do about them)

Timothy Ludwig

A deep dive into organizational safety that help clients identify and address toxicity in their own work environments.

Sensemaking

Christian Madsberg

Argues for the power of humanities in a data-driven world, helping clients find deeper personal meaning.

Madness in Civilisation

Andrew Scull

A historical overview that helps clients de-stigmatize their own experiences of madness or distress.

Our Polyvagal World

Stephen Porges and Seth Porges

Helps you understand how your nervous system responds to safety and threat, aiding in self-regulation.

Music as Medicine

Daniel Levitin

Explores the profound ways music can heal the mind, offering simple tools for everyday well-being.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Mate

A compassionate look at addiction, reminding us that we often seek external fixes for internal voids.

Apps and Websites

Countless website and app resources exist. Be guided by what makes sense to you and what works. Not all work for everyone. Some are income generators for the developers more than helpful resources for the consumer. Some drive disconnection. Some measure data points but lack interpretation or sense of meaning. Some are “award winning” – take this with a healthy pinch of curiosity. Plus many others including guided meditation and breath work resources, bio-feedback, and tracking options.

Documentaries & Films

There are a rowing number of really useful and interesting talks, documentaries, movies and TV Shows. Here is a starting list. Not all are available everywhere in the world and some require you to have a subscription.

TED Talks – https://www.ted.com/

  • Sangu Delle – Stigma
  • Vikram Patel – Mental Health
  • Dixon Chibanda – Depression
  • Kevin Briggs – Suicide
  • Elyn Saks – Schizophrenia
  • Eleanor Longden – Schizophrenia
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow and Happiness

TV & Streaming

  • Stacey Dooley – Inside the Psych Ward Pt.1 and Pt.2 – BBC iPlayer
  • Freddie Flintoff: Living With Bulimia – BBC iPlayer
  • Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency – BBC iPlayer
  • Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia – BBC iPlayer
  • Nikki Grahame: Who Is She? – Channel 4 (UK)
  • Shrinking – Apple TV (Comedy)
  • Ted Lasso – Apple TV (Comedy)
  • Stutz – Netflix (Documentary)
  • In Waves and War – Netflix (Documentary)

Films

  • To the Bone
  • Reign Over Me
  • Collateral Beauty
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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