Highly Recommended Reading!

 

  • The Myth of Normal – Gabor Mate      
  • Attached – Amir Levine        
  • The Happiness Trap – Russ Harris      
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay Gibson        
  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van der Kolk        
  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook –McKay, Wood & Brantley       
  • It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes who we are and How to End the Cycle – Mark Wolynn         
  • Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection – Deb Dana      

Recommended YouTube Videos:

The Polyvagal Theory: The New Science of Safety and Trauma: 

 

Evolution of the Human Mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv6HkipQcfA

 

 

 

The Struggle Switch

The Choice Point

Internal Struggles – The Chessboard Metaphor

Passengers on the Bus:

 

Resources for Further Support:

Canada-wide:

Domestic Violence Resources | Canadian Association of Social Workers (casw-acts.ca)

Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse:  helpingsurvivors.org/domestic-violence-and-sexual-abuse/

Canadian Center for Child Protection: Home – www.protectchildren.ca Child and Youth Advocacy Centres: Resources |

Child and Youth Advocacy Centres cac-cae.ca

Anxiety Canada – www.anxietycanada.com

The Lifeline Canada App x Suicide Prevention and Awareness app: available for free download from the App Store or Google Play

The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance – CADDRA https://www.caddra.ca/

 

For Immediate Support (Canada-wide):

Good2Talk: (ages 17-25) toll-free: 1-866-925-5454

Kids Help Phone: (ages 5-20) toll-free: 1-866-668-6868

Hope for Wellness Helpline (Indigenous people’s support, avail in some indigenous languages, also has live web-chat option) toll-free: 1-855-242-3310

Gerstein Crisis Centre – Gerstein Crisis Centre | Gerstein Crisis Centre (gersteincentre.org) – 416-929-5200

Wellness Together Canada – toll-free: 1-866-585-0445/ text WELLNESS to 741741  

 

Services in Ontario:

Distress and Crisis Ontario: text SUPPORT to 258258

PROVINCIAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS cmha.ca

Center for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) – Looking for mental health services https://www.camh.ca/

Connex: Mental Health & Addiction Treatment Services | Connex Ontario  https://www.connexontario.ca/en-ca/

 

Services in Nova Scotia:

Caregivers Nova Scotia – toll free: 1-877-488-7390/ info@caregiversns.org www.caregiversns.org/

Eating Disorders Nova Scotia –  902-229-8436/ info@eatingdisordersns.ca www.eatingdisordersns.ca/

Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre – 902-420-1576/ www.mymnfc.com

LEA Place Women’s Resource – 902-885-2668/ www.leaplace.com/

Community Mental Health & Addictions –  1-855-922-1122/ www.mha.nshealth.ca/en

Pride Health – 902-487-0470 pridehealth@nshealth.ca/ www.nshealth.ca/content/pridehealth

Reproductive Mental Health Services – 902-470-8098/ www.iwk.nshealth.ca/mental[1]health/reproductive-mental-health[1]rmh-service

 

Medication Information:

DrugWatch.com provides up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, including details about associated side effects