Books:

The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies: Based on the Timeless Wisdom of India's 5,000-Year-Old Medical System

By Vasant Lad M.A.Sc.

Bringing Yoga to Life

By Donna Farhi

This book is beautifully written and thoroughly sourced, drawing from the Yoga Sutras to get to the heart of the yoga tenets most tangibly applied to life. The main focus of this book is about understanding relationship to self and others, and how yoga practice impacts the dynamic of these relationships.

Youtube:

Yoga With Adrienne's Channel

Yoga with Adrienne offers free yoga classes of various levels, styles and themes. A great resource to support your personal yoga practice!

Podcast Channels:

Tara Brach

Psychologist Tara Brach guides this practice of radical acceptance:

Tara Brach leads a Guided Meditation: The Practice of RAIN - YouTube

Everyday Ayurveda and Yoga at Hale Pule

A remarkable podcast on holistic healing by Myra Lewin, founder, and director of Hale Pule Ayurveda & Yoga. Ayurveda and Yoga are designed to work together to create greater peace and well-being in our lives.

Awake in the World Podcast

A library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change.

LifeSpa: Ayurveda Meets Modern Science Podcast

Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP explores a wide array of topics blending the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with modern science!

Books:

The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well

By Kate O'Donnell

Keeping digestion on track is the key to health in Ayurveda, and eating natural, homemade foods in accordance with personal constitution and changes in environment is often all that we need to find balance. This book inspires you to get into the kitchen and explore this time-honored system of seasonal eating for health and vibrancy.

Simple Ayurvedic Recipes: A Companion Cookbook to Freedom in Your Relationship with Food

By Myra Lewin

This book is a guide to creating quick, tasty, and balanced meals, combining the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with practical steps for the modern cook. It captures the essence and impact of this natural approach, taking the guesswork out of meal preparation. The concepts and recipes in this book increase vitality and optimize well-being. They also support illness prevention and recovery.

Freedom in Your Relationship to Food: An Everyday Guide

By Myra Lewin

Ayurveda practitioner and Yoga teacher Myra Lewin encourages us to slow down and cultivate a healthy relationship with what we put in our bodies.

Joy of Balance

By Divya Alter

The first Ayurvedic cookbook that’s organized by ingredient—including properties, uses, compatibility and preparation—Joy of Balance presents a new way to think about cooking, eating and achieving health through food.

Books:

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

by Gabor Mate

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of you Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness

By John Kabat-Zinn

Podcast

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown Podcast

The episode entitled “Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle.” (Oct 14, 2020)

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra for Burnout

Yoga Nidra is an ancient form of yoga that helps you relax and hover on the threshold of sleep – effectively it's a meditation on the moment of falling asleep. And it's the perfect potent balm for your burnt-out brain. https://insighttimer.com/bloominglotuscounselling/guided-meditations/yoga-nidra-for-easing-burnout

Books:

Walking the Tiger Healing Trauma

By Peter Levine

The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By Bessel A. Van der Kolk

Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga Reclaiming Your Body

By David Emerson, Elizabeth Hopper, Ph.D.

Podcast

The Healing Trauma-Podcast

Therapy Chat-Podcast

Youtube:

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

By Nadine Burke Harris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk

Books:

Depression:

Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope

By Johann Hari

Podcast:

The One You Feed Podcast

Varying Perspectives Explored on Depression

https://www.oneyoufeed.net/category/anxiety-depression/

Anxiety:

Books:

Helping Your Anxious Child

A commonly referenced book that provides insight and strategy for parenting a child with anxiety

By Ronald Rapee

Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

By Judson Brewer

Website:

Resources, information and programs to support those with anxiety from childhood on www.anxietycanada.com

Grief & Loss:

Book:

When Things Fall Apart : Advice for Difficult Times

By Pema Chodron

Blog post:

Stifled Grief: How the West Has It Wrong

A Huffington Post article written by Michelle Steinke-Baumgard

Books:

Enough! A Buddhist Approach to Finding Release from Addictive Patterns

By Chonyi Taylor

Ayurveda's Wisdom for Management of Pain and Addiction

By Jaya Daptardar

Yoga of Recovery: Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda with Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction

By Durga Leela

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By Mate, Gabor

Website:

Yoga 12 Step Recovery (www.y12sr.com)

Nikki Myers: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Addiction see link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPxAyVEX98

Books:

Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality

By Evans, Shannon K.

Self-Love Workbook for Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are

By Megan Logan MSW LCSW

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

By Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Whole Beauty: Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness

By Rose, Shiva

Pelvic Liberation: Using Yoga, Self-Inquiry, and Breath Awareness for Pelvic Health

By Leslie Howard

Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science

By Claudia Welch

Books:

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By Tara Brach

Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN Paperback

By Tara Brach

Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine

By Rudolph M. Ballentine

Exercises:

Find here, several guided meditation audio clips on the practice of self-compassion with Dr. Kristen Neff. Try starting with the General Self-Compassion Break in five minutes

Self-Compassion Exercises by Dr. Kristin Neff

Future Self Journaling: A journaling practice that promotes awareness and behavioral change

www.theholisticpsychologist.com/ Future-self-journaling

Podcast:

Spark Your Intuition with Myra Lewin-Podcast

Here you’ll find bite-sized guided meditations designed to connect you to your intuitive energy - that infinite intelligence that resides within. Each meditation will expand your perspective and sharpen your perception by giving you simple tools to manage your energy. With Myra as your guide, you will let go of old attachments and tune yourself to your innate radiance

Books:

Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids

By Delahooke, Mona

The Parent's Complete Guide to Ayurveda: Principles, Practices, and Recipes for Happy, Healthy Kids

By Jayarajan Kodikannath & Alyson Young Gregory

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

By Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté MD

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

By Frances E Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt

ADHD, Autism, & Behaviour Management

Website:

Kelly Mahler is an Occupational Therapist that specializes in work with Autistic kids and families Her book, Interception: The Eighth Sensory System, and youtube videos, offer insight into how to best support those with Autism.

www.kelly-mahler.com

Podcasts:

The Better Behavior Show: Improve your child’s attention, anxiety, mood, and behavior with simple strategies you can use right now.

By Dr. Nicole Beurkens

Website:

Here is a link to facebook ADHD support groups. This website also has lots of other good information on ADHD www.caddac.ca/document/adhd-facebook-support-groups/

Scattered Minds is a book that takes an alternate view on ADHD by a Vancouver medical doctor and trauma expert, Dr. Gabor Mate www.drgabormate.com/book/

scattered-minds/

This is a long, but powerful lecture by Dr. Russell Barkley on ADHD addressed to parents:

Essential Ideas for Parents

Find here, free virtual parenting programs

Home | BC Council for Families (bccf.ca)

This is a free, online parenting program from Alan Kazdin that many parents find helpful:

www.coursera.org/learn/everyday-parenting

LGBTTQ:

Resources for parents and families of LGBTTQ individuals can be found here

Family Support: Resources for Families of Transgender & Gender Diverse Children

www.strongfamilyalliance.org

Relationships

Books:

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Love, Parent & Lead

By Brene Brown

Podcasts:

Love, Happiness and Success Podcast

Learn how to create great relationships, feel happier, grow as a person, achieve your ideal career, and make good things happen in your life. Host Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby is a psychologist, marriage, and family therapist, certified life coach, and founder of GrowingSelf.com.

Esther Perel

Relationship expert and therapist, Esther Perel, unveils the intimate space of couple’s therapy with her podcast “Where should we begin”. Listen to diverse and authentic couples in one time therapy sessions with

Website:

The Gottman Institute has a great Blog tab with links to “The Four Horsemen” and other good relationship-themed articles. Also, get a free app called “Gottman Card Decks” that has ideas for building connection and intimacy in your relationships

www.gottman.com