Ted Talks and video clips.

In no particular order, these are videos that inspire, normalize, and educate on substance use, pain, and mental health issues.

What if There's Nothing Wrong With You | Susan Henkels | TEDxSedona https://youtu.be/gF5XztmijhQ

How Mindfulness Empowers Us: An Animation Narrated by Sharon Salzberg https://youtu.be/vzKryaN44ss

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris https://youtu.be/95ovIJ3dsNk

TEDxAdelaide - Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs

Introduction to Mindfulness https://youtu.be/5ghm8J7LSlQ

The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20 https://youtu.be/66cYcSak6nE

Addiction Neuroscience 101 https://youtu.be/bwZcPwlRRcc

How to practice emotional first aid | Guy Winch https://youtu.be/F2hc2FLOdhI

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs

Book Reccomendations

Please note, these are books that have been recommended to me by those I trust or that I have read myself.

“In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” Gabor Mate

“Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation” Daniel J Siegel

“Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” Marshal B Rosenberg, Arun Ghandi

“Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness” Melanie Notkin

“Radical Acceptance” Tara Brach

“There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love” Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell

“This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression” Daphne Merkin

“Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindful Meditation in Everyday Life” Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love” bell hooks

“Women Who Love to Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll Change” Robin Norwood

“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” Bessel van der Kolk

Articles that inspire