resources

You deserve to be well-equipped for your journey into the inner wilderness.

Read on for a list of trusted referral partners, free and inexpensive resources, and a list of books that can help light the way.

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Trusted Referral Network

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    Vanessa Fernando, Counsellor

    Vanessa is a BC based Registered Social Worker with a relational, social justice oriented, and somatic lens. Her areas of specialization include trauma, particularly sexual assault; intimate partner violence; and childhood abuse

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    Alexandra Goodall, RCC

    Somatic and arts-based psychotherapy offering trauma resolution modalities, sex and intimacy coaching, and a deepening of creative engagement with life. Based In BC, Canada.

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    Isabelle Oppenheim, Tango Somatix

    Somatic Movement Educator, Body-Mind centring practitioner. Eplore your relationship to your body, yourself and other through dance, movement and consent practices. Based in ON, Canada

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    Austeja Ziemba, ACC

    Executive coach for professionals navigating the next level. A systems approach to leadership coaching without formulae or gimmicks.

  • Centre for Trauma Resolution and Recovery

    USA-based trauma coaching supported by advanced trauma resolution modalities (CE, IFS, NARM, TIST) specializing in recovery from high control religion and purity culture.

These folks are either professionals that I personally know and trust, or who’s work I have followed closely and admire. I don’t get a kickback for recommending them. Only joy that you’re about to discover them for yourself.

THE BOOK LIST

On Burnout and Spicy Brains:

Burnout, by Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
How to keep House While Drowning, by KC Davis, LPC
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The Orchid and the Dandelion, By W. Thomas Boyce, MD
The Highly Sensitive Person
Sensitive, by Jenn Granneman & Andre Andre Sólo

On Deconstructing:

Becoming Kin, by Patty Krawec
How Children Learn, John Holt
The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Ain't I a Woman?, by Bell Hooks
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Finding The Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard
Pure, by Linda Kay Klein
Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown

On healing from Trauma:

Anchored, by Deb Dana, LCSW
No Bad Parts, by Richard C. Schwartz, PHD
When Religion Hurts You, by Laura E Anderson, PhD.
What My bones Know, by Stephanie Foo
Waking the Tiger, by Peter A. Levine
It Didn't Start With You, by Mark Wolynn
The Myth of Normal, by Gabor Maté, MD
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese

On Creativity:

The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
The Creative License, by Danny Gregory
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards
Becoming the instrument, by Kenny Warner
Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon
Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert

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