My Emotional Well

Detox

1. Four Reasons to Do a Digital Detox
2. Digital Detox Journal [Worksheet]
3. What's the Deal with Detox Diets?
4. How a short negative news detox could revive your metabolism
5. How to Do a Social Media Detox
6. How to Clean Your Mind: 8 Techniques to Try
7. Detox Your Relationships
8. How to Break Your Addiction to Work

• See Authentic Living; Inspirational Dimension; My Seven Day Intensive; Purpose in Life; Transformational news

Distractions

1. The Science of Distraction
2. "Social media distractions can easily become a threat to task performance and well-being." - C. Koessmeier and O. Buttner | Why Are We Distracted by Social Media? Distraction Situations and Strategies, Reasons for Distraction, and Individual Differences
3. How Distractions Affect the Brain and Health: They Can Lead to Unhappiness [YouTube]
4. Increase Your Attention, Have More Ideas, and Discover More Plans: How to Get Your Brain to Focus [YouTube]
5. Twelve Tips to Improve Your Attention And Focus [Infographic]
6. Remedies for the Distracted Mind
7. Headspace: Find your Focus [YouTube]
8. Digital Detox Journal [Worksheet]
9. The Once-a-Week Strategy to Stop Procrastination [Kindle]
10. Dopamine Detox: Reduce Instant Gratification, Beat Social Media Addiction, and Stop Wasting Your Life [Kindle]

• App Recommendations: See Time Management 
• See Detox; Meditation and Relaxation Techniques  (reduce amygdala activation); Mindfulness (reduces amygdala activation); Purpose in Life and Designing Your  Meaning; Social Media Addiction, Time wasters , Distractions, and the Cost
• Kindle & Audiobooks: See  Keep Sharp: How to Build a Better Brain at Any Age
• Therapist Library: Focus Plan; Ground Techniques; Start a Brain Detox

Downward Spiral and Symptoms

1. Reversing the Downward Spiral of Depression
2. Things You Need to Calm Your Stress and Anxiety
3. Mental Health Self-Care Tips for Stress & Anxiety
4. Reversing the Downward Spiral: Tap into the power of positivity to reverse negativity.
5. Turning a Downward Spiral Into an Upward Spiral [Podcast]

• See Acceptance; Neurotransmitters; Self-Care & Self-Compassion

Eating Disorders

1. Eating Disorders Screening Tool
2. APP: Eating Disorder Management

Emotional Intelligence - AKA: Emotional Quotient - EQ

1. Barrier to Emotional Intelligence: The Dip [Infographic]
2. Amygdala Hijack
3. 90 Second Rule
4. What is Emotional Intelligence? [YouTube]
5. Improving Emotional Intelligene (EQ)
6. What Is Emotional Abuse? [Infographic]
7. Daniel Goleman: Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence
8. Emotional Intelligence: How to Change Your Life by Improving Your Emotional Intelligence
9. Emotional Mastery [YouTube]
10. Breathing Exercises 

• See Amygdala Activation and Recovery; Boundaries; Communication and Negotiation; Relationships - Communication

Emotions

1. 6 Steps to Mindfully Deal With Difficult Emotions [Infographic]
2. 7 Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People
3. Challenging Negative Thoughts
4. Master Your Emotions
5. What Is Emotional Abuse? [Infographic]
6. Dear Man - Give - Fast [Worksheet]
7. Moodnotes - Mood Tracker
8. Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression [Kindle & Audible]
9. The Unwanted Thoughts and Intense Emotions [Workbook]
10. Calming the Emotional Storm [Audible]

• See Communication and Negotiation

Empathy

1. Empathy [Quiz]
2. Developing Empathy
3. I Feel Your Pain’ - The Neuroscience of Empathy
4. How to Boost Your Mindfulness and Empathy While Birding | Audubon
5. Men, emotional communication, and the challenge of empathy
6. It's Not About The Nail - "Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen."[YouTube]
7. Brené Brown on Empathy [YouTube]

• See Communication
• Therapist Library: Developing Empathy; Listening Accurately Worksheet

Endings and Beginnings

1. Stress Screener [Assessment]
2. The Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory [Assessment]
3. Life's Endings and How We Make Sense out of Them
4. Four Reasons Why Endings Can Make You Happier
5. Endings: What They Mean to You and How to Mange Them
6. Endings - Managing Life Transitions [Podcast]
7. Ending Employment - Bridges Transition Model [Infographic]
8. The Growth Mindset Positivity Journal - Every Day! [Kindle]
9. NecessaryEndings - The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have toGive Up in Order to Move Forward [Audible]

• See Comfort Zone

Exercise

1. This Is What Happens to Your Brain When You Exercise  [Infographic]
2. How much do I need every day?
3. How Exercise Protects Your Brain’s Health
4. Exercise and Physical Activity Tracking Tools
5. Exercise and Aging
6. Exercise and the Brain - YouTube 
7. Here’s how I finally got myself to start exercising

Failure (encountering obstacles; fear; regression; setback)

1. Plans for Post-Setback Growth
2. Making a mistake can be rewarding, study finds
3. 10 Healthy Ways to Cope With Failure
4. The benefits of failure [TED]
5. Failure Bites - 'This is Your Brain on Failure' [Podcast]
6. What to Do When You Feel Like a Failure [Podcast]
7. Words of Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Thoughts on Optimism, Success, Fear, Overcoming Failure,Persistence, and Resilience that Will Change Your Life [Kindle]
8. Failing Forward - Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success [Audible]
9. Turn Fear into Motivation with Chris Hadfield [YouTube]
10. How Do We Cope with Fear? [YouTube]

• See Acceptance; Amygdala Activation and Recovery; Anxiety; Authentic Living; Change Process; Character Building; Comfort Zone; Confidence; Core Beliefs; Creativity; Exercise; Hope; Procrastination; Purpose in Life and Designing Your Meaning; Resilience; Stress; Time Management

Family History, Dynamics and Their Implications

1. What is Epigenetics? The Answer to the Nature vs. Nurture Debate [Infographic]
2. How a child's brain develops through early experiences [YouTube]
3. The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life [YouTube]
4. Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology [YouTube]
5. Inheriting Mental Disorders
6. Ancestry.com
7. Dysfunctional Families and Their Psychological Effects
8. 5 Types of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics [YouTube]
9. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents [Audible]
10. The Skills You Need for Happier Relationships With Family

Financial Wellbeing

1. Can Money Buy Happiness? It Depends on Why You’re Spending It
2. How Can Financial Wellness Affect Your Health?
3. How To Make Financial Wellness Your Reality | TEDxPleasantGrove
4. Ramsey Network Podcast App
5. Debt Collectors | State of CA Department of Justice
6. Tools and Resources
7. Real Estate, Insurance, Tax Services,  Investing & Retirement

Focus

1. Success Gets into Your Head—and Changes It
2. Visualization [Exercise]
3. Breathing Exercise for Relaxation and Focus [Exercise]
4. Find your Focus [YouTube]
5. "Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity." - Dr. Cal Newport [Audiobook]

Forgiveness

1. Struggling With Something You’ve Done? Here's how to Forgive Yourself
2. The Neurobiology of Forgiveness
3. Six Ways to Deal With Someone Who Wronged You
4. Seven Rules of Forgiveness 
5. Is There Anything You Can't Forgive?
6. Buddhist Approach: Eight steps to forgiveness
7. The Forgiveness Workbook: Cultivate Compassion, Release Resentment, and Find Peace (Workbook Series)

• See Apology

Friendship

1. Social Capital [Quiz]
2. Connection to Humanity [Quiz]
3. 3 kinds of friendship, according to Aristotle [Podcast]
4. 11 Signs Of A Genuine Friendship
5. The secret to making new friends as an adult [TED Talk]
6. How to win friends – and keep them | Life and style
7. Aristotle's timeless advice on what real friendship is and why it matters
8. Ten Examples of What Gaslighting Sounds Like [YouTube]
9. Gaslighting Examples and How to Respond
10. No Friends? 4 Ways to Improve Your Social Life

• See Apology;  Friendship; Isolation, Alone,  Loneliness, and Solitude; Socialization

Frustration

1. Signs of Frustration
2. Don’t Be Afraid of Your Anger [Podcast]
3. How to Deal With Low Frustration Tolerance
4. The Benefits of 'I Feel' Statements
5. Eighteen Ways to Cope with Frustration
6. Adopt These Healthy Habits for Low Stress Living
7. How to Cope With Sexual Frustration
8. I'm just so stressed [Podcast]
9. The 6 Types of Working Genius - A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team [Audible]
10. Mindfulness and Well-being: Living with Balance and Ease [Course]

• See Acceptance; Anger; Activities; Calm 365; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Overcoming Cognitive Distortions; Meditation; Resilience; Self-Compassion; Purpose in Life; Stress Management
• Therapist Library: Dealing with Frustration in Your Relationship

Fun, Inspiration,  Interests, Joy,  Leisure, and Passions

1. 100+ List of Hobbies
2. 100+ Hobbies You Can Add To Your Resume
3. Easy Ways To Have More Fun At Work - Business Insider
4. The Science of Laughter | Psychology Today
5. Cultivating Joy Takes Work: 3 Ways to Turn Happiness Into a Habit - MindShift
6. Family Activities: 5 Fun Exercises for Family Fitness
7. 10 Ways to Exercise as a Family: Staying Fit -- and Having Fun -- Together
8. Embrace Leisure Time—It Could Hurt Your Mental Health if You Don’t
9. Take our 3-minute True Vitality Test™, and we’ll give you customized recommendations on how to live longer | BlueZones
10. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance [TED]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience

Goals

1. Setting Smart Goals [Infographic]
2. 100 Life Goals & How to Set Them
3. How to Redefine Success and Find Happiness in Your Life
4. How the Eisenhower Matrix can fix your Procrastination issus
5. John Doerr: Why the secret to success is setting the right goals [TED Talk]
6. Achieving your goals: An evidence-based approach
7. What to Do When You Feel Like a Failure
8. Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achievigng Your Most Important Goals [Audible]
9. Self Discipline: A Guide to Building Self-Discipline and Achieving Your Goals In Life [Audible]
10. Bluebird Focus Timer - Stay focused. Anytime. Anywhere. [App]

• See Accountability

Gratitude

1. Gratitude Quiz
2. The Gratitude Journal
3. Grateful Living 365
4. The Neuroscience of Gratitude and Effects on the Brain
5. The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice [Podcast]
6. The Science of Gratitude [YouTube]
7. Echoes of the Forest [YouTube]

Grief

1. How to Survive Early Grief [Infographic]
2. The Ten Tenants of Grief Anonymous [Infographic]
3. Grief: What’s Normal and How to Cope
4. Linear, cyclical and messy grief [for different losses]
5. Five Creative and Meaningful Ways to Remember Your Loved Ones
6. Returning to Work When You’re Grieving
7. Coping with grief and loss during the holidays
8. The Truth About Grief: You’re Not Going to Fully Heal
9. Coping with Grief and Loss: A guide to healing 
10. It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine [Audiobook]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Endings and Beginnings; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns; Transition to Transformation
• Therapist Library: Grief (A Tangled 'Ball' of Emotions); Grief Fact Sheet; Journaling Through Grief

Grief - Children, Youth, and Adolescents

1. How To Talk To Your Kids About Death And Grief 

Grief - Men

1. Real Men Cry  
2. How Do Men Deal with Grief?
3. The Problem with Male Grief
4. Grief & Loss Healing | The Man Rules [Podcast]
5. When Men Grieve [Factsheet]

Grief - Military

• Coming soon

Gut-brain Connection

1. An Intro to the Gut-Brain Connection  [YouTube]
2. "Pay attention to your gut-brain connection – it may contribute to your anxiety and digestion problems." - The gut-brain connection | Harvard Health
3. The Mind-Gut Connection How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health [Audible]
4. How to Be Twice as Smart by Getting to Know Your Second Brain | Inc.com 
5. The Gut-Brain Connection | Duke University
6. A scientist explores the mysteries of the gut-brain connection [TED Talk]

Happiness

1. The Happy Brain Chemicals that Makes You Feel Good [Infographic]
2. Happiness Calendar
3. Seven Types of Happiness [Infographic]
4. The Neuroscience of Happiness
5. Pathway to Happiness - Register today for free—and immediately start receiving science-based strategies for more happiness, resilience, kindness, and connection in your life. | Berkeley
6. The Science of Happiness [Podcast]
7. The Science of Well-Being [Course]
8. Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report
9. Happiness Break: Feeling the Awe of Nature From Anywhere
10. Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels [Kindle & Audible]

• See Acceptance; Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Authentic Living;  Boundaries; Burnout; Calm 365; Creativity; Fun, Inspiration,  Interests, Joy,  Leisure, and Passions; Hope; Neurotransmitters; Purpose in Life; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns
• Therapist Library: Bucket Fillers

Health

1. Benefits of Improved Mental Health
2. Health Triangle Assessment [Worksheet]
3. Lifespan Living
4. Blue Zones—Live Longer, Better

• See Medically Cleared; Mental Health; Quality of Life; Routine

Hope

1. Get My Hope Score [Assessment]
2. Have You Considered the Power of Hope? Findings reveal that hope makes a difference physically and psychologically.
3. Hope Box: Encouragement, Comfort, Celebration, or Support through Uplifting Handmade Treasures
4. Why is Hope Important?
5. The Science and Power of Hope [YouTube]
6. Hope Starts With Us : If you or a loved one is struggling with a mental health condition and are looking for hope, this podcast is for you. [Podcast]
7. Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life [Kindle/Audible]
8. Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression [Kindle & Audible]
9. Hope Is a Verb: My Journey of Impossible Transformation [Audible]
10. The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook: CBT Skills to Reduce Emotional Pain, Increase Hope, and Prevent Suicide [Kindle]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Confidence and Inspiration; Fun, Inspiration, Joy, and Leisure; Happiness; Neurotransmitters; Purpose in Life; Quality of Life
• Therapist Library: Hope

Imposter Syndrome

1. Why Imposter Syndrome Isn’t Bad: How to Conquer Self-Doubt [Infographic]
2. How to Deal With Impostor Syndrome [Video]
3. Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt [Podcast]
4. Feel like a fraud?
5. People who've experienced impostor syndrome [Infographic]
6. What Is the Fear of Success?
7. Five Ways to Deal With Feelings of Not Being Good Enough
8. Leadership Development [Course]
9. The Problem With Over-achievement [YouTube]

• See Inspiration; Leadership; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Inspiration

1. Never Too Late to Become a Surgeon
2. What do Nobel laureates think about their accomplishments? See Nobel Minds 2022
3. Neurologists Debunk 11 Brain Myths
4. Big Ideas: How to Unleash Your Creative Self and Have More Aha! Moments [Kindle]
5. NASA’s Women of Artemis
6. Apollo to Artemis: NASA Returns to the Moon

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Confidence and Hope

Inspiration to Success

1. PhD student story: Stepping back from a successful career at age 40 [YouTube]

• Intrusive and Negative Thoughts

1. Managing intrusive thoughts
2. Challenging Negative Self-Talk
3. Seven Ways to Deal With Negative Thoughts
4. OCD Intrusive Thoughts: Why They Happen and How to Deal With Them
5. Ten Common Negative Thinking Patterns and How You Can Change Them
6. Negative Thoughts [ YouTube]
7. 5 Worksheets for Challenging Negative Automatic Thoughts [PDF]
8. Overcoming Negative Thoughts [Audible]
9. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Self-Esteem [Workbook]
10. Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again [Kindle & Audible]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Overcoming Cognitive Distortions; Intrusive and Negative Thoughts; Self-Compassion
• Therapist Library: AutomaticThought Record; Disqualifying the positive; The Cognitive Model

Isolation, Alone,  Loneliness, and Solitude

1. Is Avoiding Other People’s Suffering Good for Your Mental Health?
2. Ten Signs of a Fake Friend: How to Spot One From a Mile Away
3. How Dangerous Is Loneliness, Really? [YouTube]
4. "An important tool for dealing with isolation is managing your expectations and pacing yourself both in work and in life." - Brian Owens
5. The Common Character Trait of Geniuses [Big Think]
6. Are Intelligent People More Lonely? [YouTube]
7. Spending time alone made me more creative | Art Of Being Alone [YouTube]
8. Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude [Kindle]
9. No One Succeeds Alone [Audible]
10. Braving the Wilderness [Audible]

• See Friendship; Socialization

Journal Writing

1. 365DayJournal.com
2. Writing to heal
3. Expressive Writing | Psychology Today
4. Therapeutic Journaling
5. Writing Therapy: Using A Pen and Paper to Enhance Personal Growth
6. Therapeutic benefits of writing letters
7. Journal Writing Community, FREE Resources, Courses & more
8. The Connection Between Writing and Sleep
9. Opening Up by Writing It Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain [Audible]
10. Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself [Course]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience

Language, Self-Talk and Their Importance for Transformation

1. What is Positive Self-Talk? (Incl. Examples)
2. Language When Analyzing, Interpreting, Evaluating [Worksheet]
3. Language When Concluding and Planning [Worksheet]
4. Self-Talk |  Identifying, Challenging, and Changing [Worksheet]
5. How language shapes the way we think [TED Talk]
6. Both Not Half: How language shapes identity [TED Talk]
7. The Growth Mindset Positivity Journal - Every Day! [Kindle]

• See Communication and Negotiation; Mindset; Journal Writing; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Leadership

1. Eleven Leadership Lessons from Alexander the Great
2. Life and Leadership Podcast: The Imposter Syndrome [Podcast]
3. Debbie Lovich: 3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right [TED Talk]
4. Servant Leadership [Audible]
5. Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way [Kindle/Audible]
6. The 9 Types of Leadership [Kindle'/Audible]
7. The 6 Types of Working Genius - A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team [Audible]
8. How to Network: Leading Yourself to Lead Others [Course]
9. How to Be a Servant Leader: 6 Qualities of Servant Leadership [Course]

• See Imposter Syndrome; Self-Confidence

Learned Helplessness

1. Learned Helplessness [YouTube]
2. "Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so." - Psychology Today
3. The Pike Syndrome
4. Why Self-Efficacy Matters [TED Talk]
5. Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression [Kindle & Audible]

• See Comfort Zone; Hope; Language, Self-Talk and Their Importance for Transformation; Mindset; Resilience

Learning

1. Andragogy [Infographic]
2. Step outside your comfort zone  [Infographic]
3. Setting Smart Goals [Infographic]
4. Learning how to meditate
5. Learn, Heal, Grow: The School of Life
6. The Lifelong Learner [Audible] 
7. Philosophy for Life and How to Find Yourself [YouTube]

• See Change Process; Comfort Zone; Goals; Meditation and Relaxation Techniques; Mindset Strengths; Transition to Transformation
• Therapist Library: Daily Strengths Awareness via Introspection; Family Tree of Strengths; Goal Breakdown; Life Satisfaction Scorecard; My Strengths and Qualities; Strengths List; Transition to Transformation - Focus Plan; 

Legacy Planning

1. Legacy Tools: These 7 Cool Companies Can Help You Preserve Your Family Memories
2. Both Not Half: How language shapes identity [TED Talk]

• See Journal Writing; Language and Its Importance for Transformation; Purpose in Life and Designing Your  Meaning

Medically Cleared

1. Ada – check your health
2. Talking With Your Doctor
3. What Is a Psychiatric Evaluation?
4. What to Expect at Your First Psychiatrist Appointment
5. MDLive - Doctors On Call 24
6. Teladoc
7. Find Doctors Near You
8. Medication | Mental Health America

Medication

1. CBT Thought Diary: Mood Tracker & Therapy Journal [App]
2. Mental Illness Treatment Options | Nucleus Health - YouTube
3. Medication | Mental Health America
4. Mindful Health Solutions: Medication Management
5. Mental Health Medications | NIMH
6. Medisafe App - Download the app and never miss another med
7. Going Off Antidepressants | Harvard Health Publishing
8. Mental Health and Travel

• See Family History, Dynamics and Their Implications; Medically Cleared; Nutritional Psychiatry; Psychiatry

Meditation and Relaxation Techniques  (reduce amygdala activation)

1. "Meditation [is essential]. And the fact that none of us are told this in school or by our doctors indicates nothing more than a cultural blindspot." - Sam Harris | Why mental growth shouldn't stop in adulthood
2. "Levels of dopamine (the neurotransmitter of pleasure), serotonin (the neurotransmitter of happiness), and GABA (the neurotransmitter of calmness) all rise in response to meditation. And in people who practice on a daily basis, they send signals more routinely." - Richel Lit | What Happens When You Meditate
3. Benefits of Meditation [Infographic]
4. How Meditation Changes the Brain
5. Learning how to meditate
6. Guided Meditation [Audio Training]
7. Endel - Get "personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience."
8. Headspace - "Headspace is part of Headspace Health, the world’s most accessible, comprehensive provider of mental health and well-being care."
9. InsightTimer - The "#1 app for sleep, anxiety, and stress."
10. Beneficial effects of treatment with sensory isolation in flotation-tank as a preventive health-care intervention

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Calm 365; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Memories

1. How False Memories Are Formed in Your Brain
2. False Memory: What You Need to Know
3. The Impact of Trauma on Adult Sexual Assault Victims
4. How Trauma Can Impact Four Types of Memory [Infographic]
5. Does Trauma Cause Memory Loss?
6. The misinformation effect [Nobel Prize Summit]
7. The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma [Kindle]

Mental Health

1. Mental Health By the Numbers - "1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year" 
2. Americans rank mental health, cancer, drug abuse, and obesity as nation’s top health issues after COVID
3. Myths About Mental Health
4. Benefits of Improved Mental Health

• See Health; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Mental Health - Men

1. We Can't Ignore Our Dads' Mental Health
2. National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
3. Meditation for Men: Tips and Benefits
4. Father's Day Gifts to Support Dad's Mental Health
5. Stress Symptoms in Men: Physical and Psychological Signs
6. Understanding Suicide Among Men
7. Verywell Mind Survey Finds 3 in 4 Dads Want More Mental Health Support
8. How Postpartum Depression Affects Dads
9. I Hate My Dad: How to Cope When You Feel This Way
10. How Men Can Have Stronger Friendships

Micromanagement

1. Micro Manager vs Leader Coach [Infographic]
2. Nine types of leadership: Mastering the art of people in the 21st century workplace [Audible]
3. Are you a micromanager? Or do you just work for one? 5 ways to tell [TED]
4. How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
5. Confessions of a Recovering Micromanager  [TED]

• See Boundaries; Stress

Mindfulness (reduces amygdala activation)

1. Mindfulness and Meditation [Training]
2. Six Steps to Mindfully Deal With Difficult Emotions
3. You can practice mindfulness in as little as 15 minutes a day
4. Benefits of Mindfulness
5. Mindful Breathing Meditation
6. Mindfulness for Dealing with World Events
7. Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life [Audible]
8. Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction [Audible]
9. The extraordinary effect of mindfulness on depression and anxiety [YouTube]
10. Guided Mindfulness Meditation on Acceptance and Letting Go [YouTube]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Amygdala Activation and Recovery

Mindset

1. 18 Best Growth Mindset Activities, Worksheets, and Questions
2. Develop your Self-Knowledge | The School of Life
3. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

• See Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Minimalism

1. What Can Minimalism Do for Mental Health?
2. The Minimalists [Podcast]
3. Simplify, Simplify | A Philosophy of Needing Less [YouTube]

Mood

1. Can Certain Foods Improve Your Mood?
2. Thyroid disease: How does it affect your mood?
3. Research Shows Gardening Boosts Mood as Much as Exercise
4. Food and Mood: What Is Nutritional Psychiatry?
5. Monitoring your mood
6. How to be Happier, 7 Ways to Improve Your Mood
7. Daily Mood Tracker [Worksheet]
8. Wellness Tracker [Worksheet]
9. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy [Kindle]
10. PMS Mood Swings: Why They Happen, Treatments, and Finding Support

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Nutritional Psychiatry
• See Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness in App Recommendations

Multitasking

1. The High Cost of Multitasking [Infographic]
2. Being Busy vs Being Productive [Infographic]
3. Multitasking Is a Myth, and to Attempt It Comes at a Neurobiological Cost | Big Think
4. Are You Multitasking Your Life Away? | TEDxStanford
5. Multitasking - Minding the Brain | Podcast
6. Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain | Quartz
7. The Myth of Multitasking, 2nd Edition - How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done [Audible]
8. What doctors wish patients knew about decision fatigue - "Decision fatigue leaves you drained." | American Medical Association
9. Multitasking: Switching costs | American Psychological Association

Nature Bathing Improves Mental Health

1. How Nature Therapy Helps Your Mental Health
2. What is a Nature Bath and What Are Their Benefits?
3. Happiness Break: Feeling the Awe of Nature From Anywhere
4. How to Boost Your Mindfulness and Empathy While Birding
5. How Nature Supports Teen Mental Health
6. Ecotherapy / Nature Therapy
7. Amazing Nature Scenery & Relaxing Music for Stress Relief [YouTube]
8. Relaxing Nature Sounds... - Natural Calm Forest Waterfall Music [YouTube}
9. Struggling with Change? Look to Nature to Accept Impermanence [YouTube]

• APP: AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running

Negative Thoughts

1. "[T]he brain is malleable and that repeated, intentional, and somewhat uncomfortable efforts are required to experience lasting change." - Megan Call
2. What to do if your inner voice is cruel [YouTube]
3. Understanding Dark Thoughts [YouTube]
4. How to Stop Negative Thoughts [Infographic]
5. Five 5 Worksheets for Challenging Negative Automatic Thoughts
6. Getting Out of Thinking Traps [Worksheet]
7. The CBT Workbook for Mental Health: Evidence-Based Exercises to Transform Negative Thoughts and Manage Your Well-Being [Workbook]
8. Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again [Kindle/Audible]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Overcoming Cognitive Distortions; Intrusive and Negative Thoughts; Self-Compassion; Thoughts and Thinking Patterns
• Therapist Library: AutomaticThought Record; Disqualifying the positive; The Cognitive Model

Neuroplasticity

1. "Microchange leads substantive change." - E. De La Loza
2. "[T]he brain is malleable and that repeated, intentional, and somewhat uncomfortable efforts are required to experience lasting change." - Megan Call | Neuroplasticity: How to Use Your Brain’s Malleability to Improve Your Well-being
3. How Does Neuroplasticity Work? [Infographic]
4. A Quick and Simple Way to Think About The Brain [Infographic]
5. You can grow new brain cells. Here's how [YouTube]
6. What is Neuroplasticity? [14 Tools]
7. The Brain Facts Book [Podcast]

• See Thoughts and Thinking Patterns

Neurotransmitters

1. Get Your Daily Happiness Chemicals [Infographic]
2. The Happy Brain Chemicals that Makes You Feel Good

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience

Nutrition and General Health

1. Lifespan Calculator
2. The Blue Zones Test - "Take our 3-minute True Vitality Test™, and we’ll give you customized recommendations on how to live longer.
3. Nutrition.gov - "Powered by USDA Science and offers credible information to help you make healthy eating choices."
4. Teladoc - "Talk to a registered dietitian by phone or video for help with staying healthy, eating right, or managing a health condition like diabetes or high blood pressure."
5. Nutrition Courses
6. Obesity is a common, serious, and costly disease
7. Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in the United States
8. Child & Teen Healthy Weight and Obesity
9. BMI (body mass index) Calculator
10. Diet Information - "Browse all of our diet plans to find one that meets your needs." - Nutrition and General HealthUniversity Hospitals

• See Health; Medically Cleared

Nutrition, Emotions, and Mental Health

1. Emotional Eating: What Do I Really Need? [Infographic]
2. Addiction: How It Affects Your Nutrition and How You Can Begin to Heal
3. Yes, You Can Manage Your PMS With Diet and Nutrition
4. Is Being ‘Hangry’ Really a Thing ― or Just an Excuse?
5. Food and mood: Is there a connection?
6. Food & Your Mood: How Food Affects Mental Health
7. What is the Relationship Between Food and Mood? - Mental Health First Aid
8. How the food you eat affects your brain [TED Talk]
9. Food and emotions [TED Talk]
10. What role do nutrition and exercise play in treatment and recovery? [YouTube]

Nutritional Psychiatry

1. The Link Between Diet and Mental Health [YouTube]
2. How the food you eat affects your brain [YouTube]
3. TelaDoc - Online dietitians & healthy meal plans just for you
4. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - Find a Nutrition Expert
5. Nutritional strategies to ease anxiety
6. Should You Take Vitamins for Depression?
7. Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
8. Food and Mood: What Is Nutritional Psychiatry?
9. Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
10. This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More [Kindle]

Ongoing Therapy

1. Advekit
2. MDLive
3. OpenPath Collective
4. Teladoc
5. PsychologyToday

Pain

1. Chronic Pain: A Cycle of Stress and Pain [Infographic]
2. A Scientific Approach to Chronic Pain
3. Complementary Health Approaches for Chronic Pain
4. Back in Control - A Surgeon's Roadmap out of Chronic Pain
5. Break the Chronic Pain Cycle
6. Meditation for Pain
7. Pain Management

• See App Recommendations: Medication; Pain Management

Parenting

1. Parenting and Advice
2. Family Resource Center - "Our mental health videos are produced in partnership with our expert  clinicians and psychologists. We aim to provide accessible parenting  advice on a wide array of topics, including behavior, anxiety, screen  time, and parenting difficulties."
3. Kids Health - For Parents: Advice on children's health, behavior, and growth – from before birth through the teen years.
4. Healthy Children by the American Academy of Pediatrics
5. Baby Bomb - A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents [Audiobook]
6. Structural Family Therapy
7. 1-2-3 Magic (parenting childhood through teen years)
8. Parenting from the Inside Out - How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive [Audible]
9. Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle: Resolve the Power Struggle and Build Trust, Responsibility, and Respect by Neil D. Brown LCSW [Audible]
10. The 5 Love Languages of Children [Audible]

• See Childcare - Children, Youth, and Teens; Patience; Cortisol; Stress Management

Parenting - Fatherhood

1. Mental Health and the New Father
2. We Can't Ignore Our Dads' Mental Health, Even if They Try To
3. The importance of new fathers' mental health [TED Talk]
4. Newborn health Mini Parenting Master Class [YouTube]
5. Baby Tips for a New Dad, from a Dad from Sanford Health [YouTube]
6. Baby Care Basics Class [YouTube]
7. First Time Fatherhood Pregnancy Guide for Men [Audible]
8. Parenting from the Inside Out - How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive [Audible]

• See Childcare - Children, Youth, and Teens; Reproductive Psychiatry: Mom Matters; Reproductive Psychiatry: Fatherhood First 

Parenting - Motherhood

1. Why U.S. Working Moms Are So Stressed [YouTube]
2. Moms' Mental Health Matters
3. Best Moms Don't Do it All  [eBook]
4. Bringing Baby Home Parent's Workbook
5. The Transition to Parenthood: Thriving, Not Just Surviving

• See Childcare - Children, Youth, and Teens; Reproductive Psychiatry: Mom Matters; Reproductive Psychiatry: Fatherhood First 

Parenting - To Be or Not to Be a Parent

1. Positive Parenting and the Seven Essential Life Skills for Children! [ Infographic]
2. Does Having Kids Really Make People Miserable?
3. Nine Things to Consider Before Having a Baby
4. Ten Signs of an Effective Co-Parenting Relationship
5. Is it worth having kids? [YouTube]
6. Kids don’t always make you happier. Here’s why people have them anyway. [YouTube]
7. Giving Birth In Your 20s VS Your 30s [YouTube]
8. The case for having kids [TED]

• See Childhood; Happiness; Purpose in Life; Regrets; Relationships - Healthy vs. Unhealthy, and Intimacy

Patience

1. Patience Was Given To Us For A Reason
2. Lifespan Calculator [Exercise]
3. Four Reasons to Cultivate Patience
4. Four Tips to Developing Patience
5. Seven Tips for Better Patience: Yes, You'll Need to Practice
6. Cultivating Patience During Uncertain Times
7. Losing Your Patience? Here's How to Get it Back [Podcast]
8. Do You Want to Be More Patient?[Podcast]
9. Why Patience is Power [YouTube]
10. The Power of Patience: How This Old-Fashioned Virtue Can Improve Your Life [Audible]

• See Acceptance; Anger; Boundaries; Breathing Benefits; Meditation; Purpose in Life; Relationships; Stress; Values

Perfectionism

1. How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism [Kindle]

• See Acceptance and Self-Acceptance

Planners and Trackers

1. Microsoft
2. Evernote
3. App Recommendations

Pregnancy

• See Reproductive Psychiatry

Problem Solving

1. Problem solving and decision making [Education]
2. How Good Are Your Problem SolvingSkills? [Infographic/Assessment]
3. How to Solve a Problem in Four Steps: The IDEA Model [YouTube]
4. Five tips to improve your critical thinking [TED-Ed]
5. Marcus Aurelius - Stop Caring What People Think [YouTube]

Procrastination

1. Stop Procrastinating! Procrastination Self Test for Adults [Test]
2. Two Counterintuitive Ways to Stop Procrastinating
3. How to Stop Procrastinating
4. How the Eisenhower Matrix can fix your Procrastination issues
5. The Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting Things Done
6. Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator [YouTube]
7. Why we procrastinate and what to do about it, with Fuschia Sirois, PhD [YouTube]
8. Effective Time Management [Student guide]
9. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time [Audible]
10. Bluebird Focus Timer - Stay focused. Anytime. Anywhere. [App]

Psychiatry

1. Food and Mood: What Is Nutritional Psychiatry?
2. Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
3. Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment
4. 5 Things to Know Before Attending Your First Psychiatry Appointment
5. Ada – check your health
6. Biology of Depression – Neuroplasticity and Endocrinology
7. Talking With Your Doctor
8. MDLive - Doctors On Call 24
9. TelaDoc
10. Medication | Mental Health America

Purpose in Life and Designing Your  Meaning

1. Build a MeaningfulLife By Boosting 6 Strengths [Infographic]
2. Purpose in Life Quiz
3. Three Ways to See Meaning in Your Life
4. The Power of Purpose
5. Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters [YouTube]
6. Life Crafting - Sharpen your sense of purpose by defining and committing to your goals [Exercise]
7. Ten Ways to Figure Out What’s Important to You
8. Blue Zones—Live Longer, Better
9. How to Limit 10 of Life's Biggest Regrets
10. Fifteen Ways To Find Your Purpose Of Life and Realize Your Meaning

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Regrets; Values
• Therapist Library:  Best Possible Self; Exploring Familial and Current Values; Values Clarification

Quality of Life (QOL)

1. Take our 3-minute True Vitality Test™, and we’ll give you customized recommendations on how to live longer | BlueZones
2. Fifteen Ways To Find Your Purpose Of Life and Realize Your Meaning
3. Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again [Kindle & Audible]

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Purpose in Life

Regrets

1. The 6 Most Common Regrets People Experience
2. How to Limit 10 of Life's Biggest Regrets
3. Regrets: Necessary for a Well-Live Life - Why the "deathbed regrets" visualization can be so powerful.
4. A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death [YouTube]
5. How to Live without Regret and Guilt? [YouTube]
6. What Makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness [YouTube]
7. Let Go of Worry, Embarrassment and Regret [Audible]

• Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience

Relationship apps

1. Lasting - Solve any relationship or parenting issue with the #1 therapy program
2. Agape - Spark meaningful conversation, in 1 minute or less, with a personalized question from Daily Agapé.
3. Evergreen - Relationship Growth

Relationships - Abusive

1. Recognizing the Signs of Coercive Control
2. Types ofAbuse
3. Signs of domestic violence or abuse
4. Invisible Victims: When Men Are Abused
5. Help for Men Who are Being Abused
6. Help for Battered Men
7. Victim 2 Victor [Audible]
8. Suffering in Silence: The Emotional Abuse of Men [TED Talk] 

• See Abuse

Relationships

1. Relationship spectrum - Healthy | Unhealthy | Abusive [Infographic]
2. Attachment Styles [Infographic]
3. Is your relationship defined by honesty and dependability—or suspicion and betrayal? [Quiz] 
4. The Four Attachment Styles [YouTube]
5. Abusive Relationships [YouTube]
6. The 12 Ties that Bind Long-Term Relationships
7. Is your relationship healthy?
8. Co-Dependency
9. Relationship Red Flags: 7 Behaviors You Shouldn’t Let Slide
10. The Secret of Successful Relationships: Rupture and Repair

• See Activities to Enhance My Lived Experience; Empathy; Happiness
• Therapist Library: Bucket Fillers; Dealing with Frustration in Your Relationship

Relationships - Attachment Style

1. The Cycle of Attachment [Infographic]
2. The Different Attachment Styles and How to Tell Which One You Have [Infographic]
3. Relationship Attachment Style Test
4. How our Own Attachment Style Impacts our Relationships
5. How Attachment Styles Affect Adult Relationships
6. What is Secure Attachment and Bonding?
7. The Four Attachment Styles of Love [ YouTube]
8. Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style [Kindle]
9. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment [Kindle]
10. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship [Audible]

Relationships - Breakup

1. >> Interactive guide to safety planning <<
2. Early Signs, Heartbreak, and Loneliness [YouTube]
3. What Is Emotional Abuse? [Infographic]
4. 4 Clear Signs It Is Time to Let Go of Your Relationship
5. This Is Me Letting You Go [Audible]
6. Breakup Grief: Did Your Worst Breakup Change You?
7. The Neuroscience of Relationship Breakup
8. Mend | The #1 Breakup App
9. How to Cope with a Breakup: A Step-by-Step Guide
10. Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again [Kindle]

• See Cortisol; Endings and Beginnings; Relationships - Dating; Stress Management; Transition to Transformation

Relationships - Communication

1. Needs Inventory [Infographic]
2. 36 Questions for Increasing Closeness [Exercise]
3. Turn Towards Instead of Away
4. How to Deal With a Negative Spouse
5. The Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
6. The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation [Kindle]
7. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship [Audible]
8. The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts [Audible]

• See Abuse; Boundaries; Relational Dimension; Relationships; Relationships - Attachment Style; Self-Care

Relationships -  Conflict Resolution

1. How Much Should You Try to Change Your Spouse or Partner? 
2. Ten Tips to Get Your Spouse to Marriage Counseling
3. Why All Men Should Go To Marriage Counseling and Therapy
4. How to Get a Resistant Partner Into Couples Therapy
5. Marriage Problems? Here's an 8-Step Rescue Plan
6. How Parental Conflict Hurts Kids
7. Managing vs. Resolving Conflict in Relationships: The Blueprints for Success
8. How Children Cope with High Conflict Divorce: How are they harmed and what can parents do to help them?
9. What Therapists Don't Tell You About Divorcing A High-Conflict Personality
10. Relationship Rx: Insights and Practices to Overcome Chronic Fighting and Return to Love [Audiobook]

• See Cortisol; Endings and Beginnings; Health; Meditation and Relaxation Techniques; Relationships - Dating; Sleep; Stress Management; Transition to Transformation

Relationships - Dating

1. What is respect in a healthy relationship?
2. Dating & Premarital
3. 11 Online Dating Safety Tips
4. Best Background Check Sites for Dating
5. Breakup Grief: Did Your Worst Breakup Change You?
6. How Well Do You Know Your Partner? [Quiz]
7. 36 Questions for Increasing Closeness [Assessment]
8. Five Days of Dating Advice
9. When to Say "I Love You" for the First Time, According to the Experts
10. The Five Love Languages: Singles Edition [Audible]

• See Boundaries; Dating and Society; Relationships - Attachment Style; Relationships - Breakup

Relationships - When Failure Might Be An Unavoidable Life Transition

1. What Your Conflict Resolution Style Says About You and It It Healthy?
2. Why Does a Relationship Fail?
3. Thirteen Red Flags in Relationships
4. How to Recognize and Cope with Micro Cheating
5. Fifteen Signs of Deception in a Relationship
6. How to Deal with Betrayal in a Relationship
7. How to Forgive a Partner Who Has Hurt You
8. How to Fix a Relationship After Cheating
9. How Couples Can Rebuild Trust in a Relationship

Relationships - Five Love Languages

1. What isYour Love Language [Quiz]
2. What is Your Apology Language [Quiz]
3. Do you know the 5 love languages? Here’s what they are — and how to use them
4. The Five Love Languages of Children [ Audible]
5. The Five Love Languages of Teenagers [Audible]
6. The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts  [Audible]
7. The Five Love Languages for Men [Audible]

• See Relationships - Attachment Style
• See App Recommendations: Relationships
• Therapist Library: Love Language

Relationships - Healthy vs. Unhealthy, and Intimacy

1. 36 Questions for Increasing Closeness [Exercise]
2. It's Not About The Nail [YouTube]
3. Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships [Infographic]
4. Healthy vs. Unhealthy Relationships [Article]
5. The Power of Vulnerability [YouTube]
6. Skills for Healthy Romantic Relationships [TED]
7. The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship [TED]
8. Intimacy and communication [Workbook]
9. The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy [Kindle]
10. Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples [Audible]

Relationships - Marriage

1. How to Grow Emotional Intimacy in your Marriage
2. The Effects of Marriage on Health
3. Institute for Family Studies

Relationships -  Separation, and Divorce

1. >> Interactive guide to safety planning <<
2. 4 Relationship Behaviors That Often Lead to Divorce
3. 5 Things to Try Before Giving Up on a Relationship
4. Marriage Problems? Here's an 8-Step Rescue Plan
5. You Can't Fall Back In Love Without Doing This
6. 10 Tips to Get Your Spouse to Marriage Counseling
7. How to Get a Resistant Partner Into Couples Therapy
8. 7 Toxic Habits Of Emotionally Abusive Partners
9. Dealing with Bullies in Marriage -- and Divorce
10. 5 Ways To Stop Settling For Less Than You Deserve In A Relationship

• See Endings and Beginnings; Transition to Transformation

Relaxation Strategies

1. How to Relax | HeadSpace
2. Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meditation [Audio Training]
3. Guided Meditation [Audio Training]
4. Progressive Muscle Relaxation [YouTube]

Reproductive Psychiatry: Mom Matters

1. What is Reproductive Psychiatry?
2. Postpartum Support International
3. Mother to Baby
4. Maternal Mental Health [Factsheets]
5. Drugs and Lactation Database
6. National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
7. Mom's Mental Health Matters
8. Reproductive Mental Health - Ava's Story [YouTube]
9. A new way to think about the transition to motherhood [TED Talk]
10. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Workbook: The Guide to Surviving Your Emotions When Having a Baby [Kindle]

• See See Childcare; Childhood; Childhood: Zero to Three;  Children, Youth, and Teens; ; Parenting - To Be or Not to Be a Parent

Reproductive Psychiatry: Fatherhood First

1. Mental Health and the New Father
2. We Can't Ignore Our Dads' Mental Health, Even if They Try To
3. The importance of new fathers' mental health [TED Talk]
4. Newborn health Mini Parenting Master Class [YouTube]
5. Baby Tips for a New Dad, from a Dad from Sanford Health [YouTube]
6. Baby Care Basics Class [YouTube]
7. First Time Fatherhood Pregnancy Guide for Men [Audible]
8. Parenting from the Inside Out - How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive [Audible]

• See See Childcare; Childhood; Childhood: Zero to Three;  Children, Youth, and Teens; ; Parenting - To Be or Not to Be a Parent

Resilience

1. Where AreYou? Resilience Checklist [Infographic]
2. Resiliency Test [Assessment]
3. The three secrets of resilient people [TED]
4. Resilience in Positive Psychology: How to Bounce Back
5. Ramp up your resilience!
6. Neuroplasticity: How to Use Your Brain’s Malleability to Improve Your Well-being
7. Words of Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Thoughts on Optimism, Success, Fear, Overcoming Failure,Persistence, and Resilience that Will Change Your Life [Kindle]
8. Pathway to Happiness - Register today for free—and immediately start receiving science-based strategies for more happiness, resilience, kindness, and connection in your life.
9. Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills
10. Mindfulness and Well-being: Living with Balance and Ease [Course]

• See Hope
• Therapist Library: The Resiliency Toolkit; 3 Month Resilience Map for Women