Embracing Change: A Guided Journal for Life’s Transitions. Created by Aurisha Smolarski, LMFT and Cyla Fisk, LMFT.

• Websites

  • Information and support groups

    • Postpartum Support International

    • Queer Birth Project

    • RTZ Hope (loss)

    • March of Dimes

• Books

  • Loss

    • Navigating the Unknown, Amie Lands

    • At a Loss, Donna Rothert

    • It’s Ok that You’re Not Ok, Megan Devine

    • Rebirth, The Journey of Pregnancy After a Loss, Joey Miller

  • Pregnancy/Postpartum

    • Matrescence, Lucy Jones

    • The Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson

    • Transformed by Birth, Britta Bushnell

    • The Pregnancy Workbook, Katayune Kaeni

    • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, Karen Kleiman

    • What About Us, Karen Kleiman

  • Parenting

    • The Whole Brain Child, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

    • No Drama Discipline, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

    • Raising Good Humans, Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg

    • Good Inside, Becky Kennedy

    • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Simplified explanation of Polyvagal theory – Autonomic Nervous system and trauma 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdIQRxwT1I0

• The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Arielle Schwartz

• It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

• What Happened to You by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey 

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakam 

• Healing the Unimaginable by Alice Miller (ritual abuse)

• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

• Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

• Websites

  • Autism

    • Information, resources https://neuroclastic.com

    • Tests, assessments https://embrace-autism.com

  • ADHD

    • https://chadd.org

  • PDA

    • Blog http://www.sallycatpda.co.uk

    • Information https://pdanorthamerica.org

    • Information https://www.pdasociety.org.uk

• Books

  • Unmasking Autism – Devon Price

  • We’re All Neurodiverse – Sonny Jane Wise

  • Normal Sucks – Jonathan Mooney

  • Divergent Mind – Surviving in a World Not Designed for You – Jenera Nuremberg

  • Neuroqueer Heresies – Nick Walker

  • A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD – Sari Solden and Michelle Frank

  • Low Demand Parenting – Amanda Diekman

If you feel that you are in urgent need of help, please consider the following:

• Call 988 if you are having thoughts of hurting yourself.

• Text HOME to 741741 about any type of crisis.

• National Maternal Mental Health Hotline - 1-833-TLC-MAMA

• RAINN Sexual Assault line - 1-800-656-4673

• National Domestic Violence Help line - 1-800-799-SAFE

• NAMI Warmline - 1-800-950-6264

• Find more hotlines and warmlines here.