Supportive Resources
Here you will find readings, meditations, and videos that my clients have found helpful over the years.
Self-Compassion and
Mindfulness
- Self-Compassion Exercises
- Loving-Kindness with Self-Compassion Meditation
- The Head-Heart-Gut Check-In: A Mini Meditation for Making Wise Choices
- How Mindfulness Empowers Us: An Animation Narrated by Sharon Salzberg
- Meditation for Working with Difficulties: UCLA Mindful Awareness Center
- Self-Compassion in Clinical Practice: Christopher K. Germer and Kristin D. Neff
- Alfred & Shadow – A short story about emotions (education psychology health animation)
Somatic Exercises
- Breathing Meditation: UCLA Mindful Awareness Center
- How to do Deep Breathing
- Detaching from Emotional Pain (Grounding): Lisa Najavits, PhD
- Somatic Practices to Relieve Stress and Self-Soothe | Dr. Peter A. Levine & Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein
- Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Grounding Exercise for Anxiety #10: Square Breathing
- How to Turn off the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response: Anxiety Skills #4
- Parasympathetic Response: Train Your Nervous System to Turn off Stress: Anxiety Skills #11
Sometimes “let it go” becomes “hold it lightly,” and when that happens the heart expands.
Susan David, Emotional Agility