Resources

IFS Podcast interview - The Validation Lounge: All Parts Are Welcome with Sasha Jenkin (my guest appearance, discussing IFS and Dreamwork May 2025).

Guided Meditations & Retreat Centers 🧘🏾‍♂️

• Tara Brach

• Phillip Moffitt - Teachings for daily life

• Jill Shepherd

• Alexis Santos

• Self-Compassion Practice

• Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (MA)

• Insight Meditation Society (MA)

• The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (MA)

• Spirit Rock Meditation Center (CA)

• River Valley Insight Meditation Community (MA)

• Southern Dharma Retreat Center (NC)

• Insight Retreat Center (CA)

• Common Ground (Mark Nunberg), MN + Virtual

• Insight Meditation Western Mass (MA)

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

― Lilla Watson (Aboriginal Activist)

Top recommended books 📚📚

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Dr. Resmaa Menakem

• Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom by Tamala Floyd

• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide For Living An Awakened Life by Loch Kelly

• Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering by Phillip Moffitt

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz Ph.D.

• The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön

• The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation by Narayan Helen Liebenson

• Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma and Foster Resilience by Dr. Arielle Schwartz

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• Awake At The Bedside: Contemplative Teachings On Palliative And End-Of-Life Care by Koshin Paley Ellison & Matt Weingast

• Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Sofer

Post-Concussion Support

Virtual Post-Concussion Support Group - https://alirheaume.com/life-after-concussion

Helpful/favorite TED talks 📺 🎥

• Jill Bolte Taylor - My Stroke of Insight

• Kristin Rivas - The Life-Changing Power of Words

• Dr. Kristen Neff - The Space Between Self Esteem and Self Compassion

• Amy Cuddy - Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are

• Dr. Nadine Burke Harris - How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

• About resilience and healing - Michelle Esrick: Through the Mud We Rise

• Jane Whitlock - “What I Learned About Life from Death”

Websites 👇🏾👇

• What is IFS? This is a very short animated video about Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), by Bruce Hersey, LCSW. A great, brief explanation.

• The Conversation Project - Death & Dying (and Dementia) https://theconversationproject.org/tcp-blog/ellen-goodman-talks-dementia-and-alzheimers-disease/

• End of Life Choices - https://www.compassionandchoices.org/

• The Limbic Brain and Its Role in Trauma by Dr. Russ Harris - Acceptance Commitment Therapy - https://youtu.be/a-ddSEHRWVg

• Helpful information on working with nightmares: https://drleslieellis.com/what-can-you-do-about-your-nightmares-ideas-from-a-trauma-expert/

• IFS (Internal Family Systems) “parts work” explained https://youtu.be/fzevlBt5HUA

• Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) - Transformative Mental Health - Anti-Oppressive, holistic resources for mental health practitioners and clients.