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Carolyn Spring’s Emotional Resource Guide

Carolyn Spring is an author, speaker, trainer and trauma survivor. She’s crafted this insightful toolkit of ideas, strategies and lists to help when we’re feeling distressed and overwhelmed.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Everyday People
Video

Breaking The Cycle

This is a lovely video from Professor Darcia Navaraez, who has been a leading researcher into our evolutionary history and what it tells us about how we raise children.

  • Child
Video

Interview with the World Creativity channel

I was interviewed for World Creativity Day. I talk about creativity and trauma, co-design and grief, and the Artist’s Way.

  • Child
  • Grief
Book

‘Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment’ – by Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher

I love this framing of trauma-work, which goes deep into a trusting of the body’s natural intelligence, and working sensitively with that intelligence.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Therapists
Book

‘Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery: Simple, Safe, and Effective Practices for Therapy’ – by Deirdre Fay + Christopher Germer

Some great resources in here for working with clients with trauma, drawing from yogic and meditation traditions.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Therapists
Podcast

Interview with Stephen Porges about Polyvagal Theory

Stephen Porges’s work provides fascinating insight on the role of the vagus nerve in regulating our emotional world. His theory gives a lucid explanation of how we mammals have evolved our brains and nervous systems to pick up threats in the environment, and the importance of finding ‘cues of safety’ to help us regulate ourselves.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Everyday People
Book

‘The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma’ – by Bessel van der Kolk

This book is possible the most classic modern work on trauma. It’s a slightly dense book, but certainly worth exploring.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Everyday People
Book

‘Transforming Trauma: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma’ – by Dr. James Gordon

James Gordon is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist with a deep spiritual dimension, so this book is a wonderful resource for anyone with an openness to the spiritual wanting to work on their own trauma or help other people with their trauma.

  • Trauma
    • Trauma for Everyday People
Book

‘Sacred Commerce: Business as a Path of Awakening’ – by Matthew Engelhart and Terces Engelhart

This is a beautiful little book with some very practical tips for running a business and putting higher values like gratitude and compassion at the core.

  • Spirit
Book

‘The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles’ – by Marianne Williamson

Another one of my ‘bibles’. Whenever I feel stressed about work or money, I come back to certain chapters in this book to find a higher perspective.

  • Spirit
Book

‘The Way of Mastery, Pathway of Enlightenment: The Way of the Heart’ – Jeshua

The first of a 3 book-series, transcripts of recordings of a spiritual master downloading wisdom on Love from another realm.

  • Spirit
Book

‘The Way to Love’ – by Anthony de Mello

Anthony De Mello was a Jesuit priest and beautiful storyteller. This book contains some of his best spiritual teachings on Love. “Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them.”

  • Spirit
Book

‘A Return to Love’ – by Marianne Williamson

This is one of my ‘bibles’. I come back to it whenever I want to restore my connection to the Field of Love that holds it all together.

  • Spirit
Book

‘Doing Nothing, Coming To The End Of The Spiritual Search’ – by Steven Harrison

This book had a huge impact on me. It’s not for the faint-hearted – but on the plus side, it will make you question almost everything you have been told about the spiritual path.

  • Radical alchemy
  • Spirit
Article

‘Mindfulness and Politics – agency-in-urgent-times’ – by The Mindfulness Initiative

A paper on the benefits of evidence-based mindfulness training for individual and collective political power. A very interesting document about using meditation to increase our agency.

  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness and Politics
Article

‘Time for new thinking about mindfulness and social change’ – by Jamie Bristow

An excellent response to mindfulness critiques from my friend Jamie Bristow, director of the Mindfulness Initiative.

  • Critique of Mindfulness
Article

‘The problem of mindfulness’ – by Sahanika Ratnayake

This article is a good critique of the false ‘neutrality’ of mindfulness.

  • Critique of Mindfulness
Article

‘How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry’ – by David Forbes

A good summary of ‘McMindfulness’, one of the best critiques of the practice as a western phenomena around.

  • Critique of Mindfulness
Book

‘Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners’ – by Susan Bogels

This thick book is a great clinical resource for teaching mindfulness to parents.

  • Meditation
    • Clinical and Research
Article

‘Mindfulness and contemplative approaches in education’ – Katherine Weare

A good summary of the effectiveness of mindfulness in schools.

  • Meditation
    • Clinical and Research
Article

‘What is Mindfulness?’ – Bangor University

The two main clinical applications of Mindfulness use Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), or Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. This is a useful description of the two methods.

  • Meditation
    • Clinical and Research
Book

‘Seeing That Frees’ – by Rob Burbea

Rob Burbea was one of the best meditation teachers of recent times. He died in 2020, but this book captures the depth of his insight into meditation, and how we can use meditation to free ourselves from suffering.

  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness for Grown Ups
App

Insight Timer

For slightly more experienced meditators, Insight Timer is amazing. Especially the timer, use this to create your own meditation soundtrack.

  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness for Grown Ups
App

Sam Harris’s Waking Up App

If you are an atheist, or working with an atheist, then Sam Harris’ app Waking Up is really good. I have found this particularly helpful for clients who have an aversion to anything with a religious undertone or overtly spiritual association.

  • Meditation
    • Basics of Mindfulness
    • Mindfulness for Grown Ups
Course

Mindfulness in Schools Project

If you are interested in training to become a mindfulness for kids teacher, these guys are the best in the UK. I have done their training.

  • Child
  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness for Kids
App

Ninja Focus

A really fun meditation and mindfulness app for kids. Focussing on screen time, focus, regulating emotions and better sleep.

  • Child
    • meditation
  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness for Kids
Website

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Susan Kaiser Greenland is probably the most well-known mindfulness for kids teacher – explore her joyful, fun approach to mindfulness on her website.

  • Child
    • meditation
  • Meditation
    • Mindfulness for Kids
Website

Ram Dass

Ram Dass is my number one spiritual teacher. He was a Professor Of Psychology at Harvard University, and very involved in the psychedelic movement that essentially kickstarted the 60s. He then met a guru in India called Neem Karoli Baba – his teachings are a combination of his psychology training and the deep spiritual insights he gained as a result of this mentor-student. I love him. He died in 2019, but all of his teachings are collected on this website.

  • Meditation
  • Spirit
App

Headspace

Headspace have so many amazing resources to learn the basics, including on their youtube channel and on their website. Their short animations are a great way to introduce kids to some of the basic concepts of mindfulness.

  • Meditation
    • Basics of Mindfulness
    • Mindfulness for Grown Ups
Attachment

‘Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on Its Meanings, Origins, and Multiple Applications at the Intersection of Science and Dharma’ – by Mark Williams and Jon Kabat-Zinn

A long extract from a book about the origins of mindfulness by J. Mark G. Williams and Jon Kabat-Zinn.

  • History of Mindfulness
Article

‘A History of Mindfulness’ – Wellcome Foundation

An interesting, well-researched article on the Wellcome Foundation website, delving into the growth of mindfulness from Buddhist origins into a Western phenomenon.

  • History of Mindfulness
Book

‘Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche’ – by Robert Johnson

This is an accessible guide to shadow-work written with a balance of psychological insight and a grounded spiritual perspective.

  • Shadow
Book

‘Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis’ – by Carolyn Baker

Carolyn Baker offers her unique insight into how our collective shadow is feeding the multiple global crises we face. An essential read if you’re working on yourself in order to serve our world.

  • Shadow
Book

‘Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel’ by Jamie Catto

Jamie is a very funny teacher who specialises in transforming your shadow material into creativity. This is a beautifully written treasure of a book.

  • Shadow
Book

‘The Path is Everywhere’ by Matt Licata

If you are going through a tough time, reading this book is like soaking in a warm bath of compassionate wisdom. It’s one of my most reliable go-to resources for tough times.

  • Shadow
  • Spirit
  • Trauma
Meditation

‘Deep Gratitude in a Pandemic’ – by Louis Weinstock

Listen to a deep, relaxing, heart-expanding 18 minute meditation I recorded to help my community deal with the stresses of the pandemic.

  • Meditation
  • Radical alchemy
Book

‘The Worm at the Core’ -by Solomon et al.

Great book summarising the research from the Terror Management School, who showed through some brilliant experiments how much fear of death affects our everyday life.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘Staring at the Sun’ – by Irvin Yalom

A classic text on coming to terms with our basic fear of death, by the classic existential psychotherapist.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’ – by Francis Weller

By far my favourite teacher on grief. Beautiful model of grief that welcomes in different forms of grief and sees the alchemical potential of grief.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Website

Child Bereavement Network

Huge amount of resources and support here for professionals supporting grieving young people.

  • Child
  • Grief
    • Grief and Death for Grown-Ups/Professionals
Book

‘Sad Book’ – by Michael Rosen

Probably one of the more famous books about loss, with Michael Rosen’s typical humour shining through (and it is indirectly about his own experience of losing his son to meningitis).

  • Child
  • Grief
    • Grief/Death for Children
Book

‘Cry Heart But Never Break’ – by Glenn Ringtved

A beautiful book symbolising death with a profound message about grief and joy being siblings.

  • Child
  • Grief
    • Grief/Death for Children
Website

Death Over Dinner

A similar movement started in the States by Michael Hebb, helping give people the tools to talk about death over dinner.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Website

Death Cafe

An amazing movement started by therapist and Buddhist Jon Underwood, who died about 2 years ago now. Great place to recommend to people who aren’t quite ready for formal counselling, but want to explore death in a free, safe non-formal setting.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘Die Wise’ – by Stephen Jenkinson

He is a very deep, philosophical teacher about what death has to teach us about living sanely in a mad world.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘Five Invitations’ – by Frank Otaseski

Beautiful, Buddhist-inspired teachings on what death has to teach us about living fully.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘Denial of Death’ – by Ernst Becker

A classic text on how humans deny death and the consequences of doing this. A bit dense in places, but some really profound insights in here.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
Book

‘Active Hope’ -by Joanna Macy

The best teacher on ecological grief, which is increasingly going to be an issue for people young and old. Some simple easy to access exercises in this book.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
  • Radical alchemy
Course

Life and Death Wisdom Course

Beautiful course created by Me! With guided meditations and lessons on working with ‘Fear of Death’, ‘Grief’, Life and Death Instincts.

  • Grief
    • Adult Grief and Death
App

Apart of Me

This is a therapeutic app we created after I worked in a hospice and realised the need for better support for young people. Has two pathways, one for young people who have a loved one with a life-limiting illness, another for bereaved young people. Has been used by over 90,000 people at time of writing, is being translated into 8 languages as we speak, and was shortlisted for a Bafta.

  • Grief
    • Adolescent grief
Book

‘A Monster Calls’ – by Patrick Ness

This book is aimed at teens, but I cried reading it, it is such a moving story, also made into a film which is quite good. Highly recommend buying this book.

  • Child
  • Grief
    • Adolescent grief
Book

‘Duck, Death and the Tulip’ – by Wolf Erlbruch

Symbolises death in a way young children can understand and be curious about (my 3 year old loves this book).

  • Grief
    • Grief/Death for Children
Book

‘Lifetimes’ – by Bryan Mellonie

Perfect nature-based way of talking about death to children.

  • Grief
    • Grief/Death for Children
Book

‘Heart in a Bottle’ – by Oliver Jeffers

Beautiful, simple story on rediscovering joy after a loss.

  • Grief
    • Grief/Death for Children

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