Fortunately there's so much great information, support and products available these days. With all of the virtual and phone in options available today help is literally at your fingertips. Here's a list of helpful books, support groups, hotlines and tools. Bottom line: do your due diligence, what works for one person may or may not work for another. When it comes to self help groups I encourage you to try a few different meetings before deciding whether a program is for you or not.
Self Help, Recovery Support & Spiritual Community
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Al-Anon
- Alcoholic Anonymous
- Co-dependent’s Anonymous
- Narcotics Anonymous
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Overeaters Anonymous
- The Trevor Project: Saving Young LGBTQ Lives
- Way of the Rose a diverse, inclusive & international community dedicated to the forgotten earth wisdom of the rosary…and to the Lady, by any name you like to call Her
Tapping/EFT & Energy Healing
- EFT International Trainings & Workshops (The largest non-profit organization on the planet dedicated exclusively to promoting, educating and upholding impeccable standards for EFT/Tapping)
- EFT International, The Science and Research Behind EFT Tapping
- EFT Instruction with Jen
- Directory of EFT Training, Workshops, Seminars & Teleclasses
- Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology
- Gary Craig (originator of EFT)
Articles and Blog Posts
- Cells That Read Minds Sandra Blakeslee
- Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants Ewen Callaway
- The Spoon Theory Christine Miserandino
- Mirror Neurons Giacomo Rizzolatti
- Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children’s genes Helen Thomson
Inspiring or Compelling Movies or Series
- Netflix Original Brené Brown: The Call To Courage
- Netflix Original The OA (Beautiful dark and compelling series about resilience and spirit, Not for kids)
- Netflix Original Sense8 (Imagine a pod of empaths who can swap bodies and minds NSFW)
- Netflix Original The Haunting of Hill House (Powerful psychological horror/ghost story showing the consequences of denial)
- Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth (Classic and Amazing)
- Heal (Great Documentary about Alternative Healing)
- Under Our Skin (Documentary on Lyme disease)
- Cloud Atlas (The soul's journey, love, reincarnation and karma)
- The Matrix (What's real & what's illusion)
- Avatar (The power of nature to survive and transform)
- Inception (Dreams within dreams within dreams SO GOOD)
- What Dreams May Come (Beautiful, poetic, grief and love)
- The Fountain (GORGEOUS film about loss, love, reincarnation and redemption)
- Photographing Fairies (magical and mysterious)
Food Glorious Food
- The Men Who Made Us Fat Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 COMPELLING Documentary about the Perfect Storm of circumstances that have resulted in an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer in the last 50 years. WORTH watching.
- My Big Fat Diet Canadian doctor Jay Wortman and an entire town of First Nation people go back to eating the way they used to: A high-fat low-carb diet based on real food. Watch how they transform their bodies and their health with no additional exercise or calorie counting.
- Sugar Blues the book that started it all (and my first exposure to the concept that sugar is not my friend)
- GAPS Diet a foundation for gut healing that restores physical and psychological wellbeing.
- The Autoimmune Paleo Diet this takes GAPS concepts and adapts them to be especially helpful for mitigating AutoImmune issues.
- Slim & Sassy DoTerra Essential Oil Blend Promotes healthy metabolism & helps manage hunger cravings
- To Eat or Not To Eat: The Empath’s Dilemma an Interview with Shannon Plummer (Part 1) a candid interview about eating disorders, rules and dogmatic diets and honoring our body's needs.
- Why Sugar is Lethal for Empaths: An Interview with Shannon Plummer (Part 2) LISTEN to this interview if you've ever struggled with sugar cravings or the Sugar Blues.
Skip the grocery store
- Misfits Market Delivery Service: Get organic fruits & vegetables, wild caught, free range, grass-fed meat, fish and poultry and other groceries regularly delivered to your front door. Use this link and save $30 on your first order.
- Thrive Market Delivery Service: food, body care and household products to meet your unique dietary and environmental needs. Order favorite name brands or thrive brand products and save. Use this link to save 25% off on your first order.
Empath Emergency Kit tools and resources
Healy: a palm sized device that broadcasts individualized microcurrent frequencies designed to harmonize your bioenergetic field.