Resources
YouTube Links:
Brene Brown: The Power Of Vulnerability (20:49mins)
Brene Brown: Listening To Shame (20:38mins)
Kristin Neff: Self Compassion
Alison Ledgerwood: Getting stuck in the negatives (10mins)
Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
(21mins)
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Stan Tatkin: Relationships Are Hard, But Why? (10mins)
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Brene Brown: Empathy vs Sympathy (3mins)
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Brene Brown: How to know if you can trust someone
(13mins)
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Books:
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown (see also The Power of Vulnerability audio presentation through Soundstrue)
Self Compassion - The Proven Power of Being Kind To Yourself by Kristin Neff
Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard Davidson
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron (self test available on her website)
Healing Trauma by Peter Levine (also Waking The Tiger and In An Unspoken Voice)
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Complex PTSD: from Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
What Happened To You? by Dr Burce Perry and Oprah Winfrey (great book on trauma)
For Information on Narcissism, Dr Ramani on YouTube has a great deal of information.
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Movies
The Wisdom of Trauma - A wonderful film featuring Gabor Maté.
Inside Out A great animated movie that is based on research about emotions and was highly contributed to by Dacher Keltner (Professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab)
Sensitive: The Untold Story A great documentary for anyone who is highly sensitive, which is based on the latest research and fMRIs and now recognizes that 20% of the population have this trait. Only currently available to download online.
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Phone Apps
Sleep cycle (analyzes your sleep)
My Calm Beat (gives a visual aid to assist focusing on your breathing)
Inner Balance (like EmWave, requires purchase of a sensor that measures your heart rate variability to give you biofeedback regarding your level of heart rate variability coherence)
