Resources for your healing journey

Find Your Strength by April Snow is a beautifully designed workbook that helps highly sensitive people select lifestyle modifications to thrive personally and professionally.
Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwab helps you get the courage and clarity to set boundaries with toxic family. She provides succinct, matter of fact wisdom for navigating family dynamics.
It’s Not You is the book that helps you spot red flags in dating. Dr. Ramani compassionately educates you on the confusing dynamics in narcissistically abusive relationships.
Energy Healing for Empaths by Lisa Campion is a grounded and practical guide for setting boundaries, integrated with wisdom from recovery, spiritual traditions and therapy.
Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel is a comforting book about strained mother-daughter relationships. McDaniel helps daughters mourn, heal and grow from maternal neglect.
No Bad Parts by Dr. Schwartz details the spiritual foundations of the IFS model. Through demos and exercises, he helps us discover that there are no bad parts inside of us, only parts with good intentions.
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Dr. Gibson describes the range of traits in emotionally immature parents and gives clear guidelines for self-care and setting boundaries.
Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members by Sherrie Campbell is a guide for going no contact with family members. She helps you to manage the repercussions of separation and grieve the loss of family.
Glimmer by Kimberly Shannon Murphy is a powerful memoir about surviving childhood sexual abuse, intergenerational trauma and learning how to thrive and heal using Internal Family Systems.

This video series by Dr. Tori Olds educates on the the neuroscience of IFS (how “parts” and “Self” have brain based explanations).

This powerful demo of IFS is facilitated by Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of IFS, and Deran Young, founder of Black Therapists Rock. Deran is guided through a IFS visualization to heal ancestral trauma. Recommended to start at the 12 minute mark.

Interview of me about HSPs raised by narcissistic parents

About the experience of childhood trauma for HSPs

Why empaths are susceptible to narcissistic abuse

Dr. Schwartz on Tim Ferris

This interview of Dr. Schwartz explains the IFS model and includes a demo. Schwartz guides Ferris through an IFS unburdening to heal trauma from childhood bullying.

Tara Brach Meditations

Therapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach leads meditations for self-compassion. I recommend her RAIN meditations which are similar to IFS.

Navigating Narcissism

Dr. Clayton shares with Dr. Ramani about the narcissistic abuse she experienced from her stepfather. Part 1 of a 2 part interview.

Emotionally Immature Parents

Dr. Lindsay Gibson is interviewed about emotionally immature parents. She has a great sense of humor and insight.

IFS & 12 Step Recovery

Bob Falconer describes how elegantly the IFS model and 12 step model intersect for addiction recovery.

Sarah Blondin Meditations

Sarah Blondin is a poetic meditation guide with a soothing voice. Her podcast Live Awake has free meditations to help you ground and center.

Are there narcissists everywhere?

Two therapists have a casual and funny chat about how narcissistic traits show up in all of us. Narcissism is a spectrum!

IFS Demo with Abby Wambach

Dr. Richard Schwartz gives an IFS session to Abby Wambach on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with Glennon Doyle.

Narcissist & Codependent Parts

Caroline Strawson is an IFS therapist who educates on how the parts of narcissists and codependents intersect.

We Can Do Hard Things Part I

Dr. Lindsay Gibson is interviewed on We Can Do Hard Things about the relational patterns of emotionally immature parents.

Dr. Becky: Reparenting Ourselves

This podcast episode looks at parenting through the IFS lens, to help you understand how to parent your inner child.

Therapy Jeff on No Contact

Jeff Guenther (@therapyjeff), shares with Whitney Goodman (@sitwithwhit) about the journey of going no contact with his mom.

Dharma Punx Meditations

Josh Korda is a counselor who teaches at the intersection of psychology and spirituality. His meditation talks help us practice for real life challenges.

CSA & Family Estrangement

Kimberly Shannon Murphy talks about navigating family estrangement and recovering from childhood sexual abuse.

Rethinking Narcissism Interview

Craig Malkin is a narcissism expert who explains the psyche of narcissists and how shame drives their defenses.

Bob Falconer on spirituality & IFS

Bob Falconer is at the forefront of researching how IFS methods parallel other spiritual practices and beliefs across the world.

Calling Home Podcast: No Contact

Whitney Goodman (@sitwithwhit) shares about the common reasons that people choose to go no contact with their family members.

Evan Rachel Wood Interview

Evan Rachel Wood shares about the narcissistic abuse she endured in her relationship with Marilyn Manson and her process of recovering from PTSD.

Patrick Teahan on Toxic Families

Patrick Teahan, childhood trauma therapist, talks about what happens when family members take the side of the abusive parent.

Grieving an Estranged Parent

Patrick Teahan, childhood trauma therapist, coaches someone through the choice to become estranged from her father.