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Resources

Hotlines:

  • Crisis Talk and Text Line:

    • 988

  • Suicide Prevention Crisis Center:

    • (310) 391-1253

  • Rape Treatment Crisis Center:

    • (310) 319-4000

  • California Youth Crisis Line:

    • 1-800-843-5200

  • The National Domestic Violence Hotline:

    • 1-800-799-723

  • DCFS:

    • 800-540-4000

  • CA Youth Crisis Line:

    • 800-843-5200

  • Crisis Text Line

    • Text "Home" to 741-741

  • Teen Line - Didi Hirsh Mental Health Line:

    • 1-800-852-8336 or Text "TEEN" to 839-836

Books (Read and Approved):
- Anxiety
 - The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
- Grief
    - Beloved by Toni Morrison
    - Tinkers by Paul Harding
    - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
-  LGBTQ+ Representation
   - All Fours by Miranda July
    -  Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
    -  Boulder by Eva Baltasar
    - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
    -  Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
    -  The Song of Achillies by Madeline Miller
- Acceptance and Mindfulness 
  - The Art of Mindful Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
   - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
   - The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
   - Radical Acceptance - Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
   - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Philosophy
   - Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
    -  Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
    - The Stranger by Albert Camus
    - The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Relationships
    - Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel
    - Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make - And Keep - Friends by Marisa G. Franco, Ph.D.
    - The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
    - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
- Science Behind Trauma
   - The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD 
   - My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma &  the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies by Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP
   -  No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
- Self Growth, Trauma, and Powerful Narratives
   - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
   - Educated by Tara Westover
   - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
   - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
   - In The Dream House by Marmen Maria Machado
  - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
   - Know My Name by Chanel Miller
   - A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
   - Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison
- Self Help
  -  Atomic Habits by James Clear   
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