Books.
Many of these can be found in both Toowoomba and Ipswich libraries. If you want to purchase them, click on the title to be taken to a link with Booktopia or try any or the other online book stores such as BookDepository, Angus & Robertson online.
- The power of showing up by Dan Siegal and Tina Bryson. One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out — in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships — is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them.
- Co-parenting with a toxic ex by Amy Baker and Paul Fine.
- Why we sleep by Matthew Walker.
- The hidden lives of dreams by Melinda Powell.
- The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk.
- 12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson
- Surviving parental alienation by Amy Baker and Paul Fine.
- Will I ever be free of you? by Karyl McBride.
- Joint custody with a jerk by Jody Corcoran.
- High-conflict custody battle by Amy Baker, J Michael Bone and Brian Ludmer.
- The family law handbook, 5th edition by Maree Livermore.
- Non violent communication by Marshall Rosenberg.
- Hey warrior. A book for kids about anxiety by Karen Young.
- Don't feed the monkey mind. How to stop the cycle of anxiety, fear and worry by Jennifer Shannon and Doug Shannon.
- How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control!: Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses by Lauren Brukner.
- Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Bill Eddy and Randi Kreger.
- Stop walking on eggshells by Randi Kreger and Paul Mason.
- The stop walking on eggshells workbook by Randi Kreger and James Shirley.
- The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger.
- When Pleasing You Is Killing Me: Setting Boundaries with the Controllers in Your Life by Dr Les Carter (PhD).
- Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me: How to Recognize and Manage the Narcissists in Your Life by Dr Les Carter (PhD).
- What happened to you: Conversations on trauma, resilience and healing by Dr Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey.
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Dr Gabor Mate.
- Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home by Emma Whipday.
- DAILY VAGUS NERVE Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression and Trauma by Lucas Miller.
- When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Dr Gabor Mate.
- In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton Smith.
- Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems by Christopher Kearney.
- Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion by Dr Wendy Suzuki.
- Healthy Brain, Happy Life: How to Activate Your Brain & Do Everything Better by Dr Wendy Suzuki & Billie Fitzpatrick.
- Anxiety is Your Superpower: Using anxiety to think better, feel better and do better by Wendy Suzuki.
- Surviving narcissism channel on YouTube.
- The Duluth Model for domestic violence on YouTube.
- Home of the Duluth Model website.
- Speak out loud website. Learn about coercive control and psychological abuse.
- Narcissist Abuse Support website.
- DrRamani channel on YouTube. One way to really take advantage of this channel is to look at the various playlists available, starting with the "Glossary of Narcissistic Relationships".
- Rebecca Zung channel on YouTube. USA attorney and negotiation strategist, Rebecca Zung, shares her secrets on how to negotiate with a narcissist or a high conflict personality.
- The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence website. The Leadership Council is a nonprofit independent scientific organization composed committed to providing professionals and lay persons with the latest scientific information on issues that may affect the public's health and safety. They seek to correct the misuse of psychological science to serve vested interests or justify victimizing vulnerable populations -- especially abused and neglected children.
- VerbalAbuse.com. This is the official Verbal Abuse information site, featuring Patricia Evans, an internationally recognized Interpersonal Communications Specialist and author of the first book about Verbal Abuse.
- Cinema Therapy channel on YouTube. Making sense of life, one blockbuster at a time. Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and professional filmmaker Alan Seawright break down your favorite movies, searching the characters, themes and plots to find things you can use to improve your mental health, your life, your looks? and your cardiovascular fitness (nope.) Join them and their guests as they try to improve life, laugh at each other, and keep Alan from crying over everything.
- Tamie M Joyce channel on YouTube. Empowering life coach on co-dependency and narcissistic abuse recovery.
- ANROWS Events. Australian National Research Organisation for Women's Safety Limited webinars and events.
- ABC Catalyst program on music on Parkinsons on YouTube
- ABC Catalyst program on mindfulness and how it can help with pain, anxiety and depression on YouTube.
- ABC Science program on meditation on YouTube.
Recovering from trauma:
- Blue Knot foundation website.
- The Crappy Childhood fairy website.
- The Crappy Childhood Fairy on YouTube.
- Ask Kati anything on YouTube.
- MamaManon - Trauma informed parenting on Facebook.
Courses and training:
- Separated Parents Orders Training. An online course of 10 sessions based on the Parenting Orders program.
- parentingworkshop.com.au. An online version of the Circle of Security program.
- Healthy Mind Centre. Another online version of the Circle of Security program.
Websites, blogs and podcasts:
- Family Law Services online blog.
- Speak out loud blog. A very powerful and informing blog by a practitioner.
- Partnering with a survivor podcast. Safe and Together Institute podcast by David Mandel and Ruth Stearns Mandel. This podcast looks at systems and institutional responses to domestic abuse.
- Huberman Labs podcast. Everything science and neuroscience about the brain and recovery.
- The Child Psych Podcast. The ChildPsych Podcast brings to you the top parenting & mental health experts in the world. Designed to educate and inspire you with current research & concrete strategies that foster resiliency & healing in children and teens. Most importantly we’re here because we need to raise a generation of children who don’t need to recover from their childhoods.
- ADDitude ADHD Experts podcast. Leading ADHD experts give real-life answers to questions submitted by ADD adults and parents raising children with attention deficit disorder across a range of topics covering symptoms, school, work, and family life.
Conversation starters:
- Downloadable colouring resources on actions and behaviours of domestic violence from the USA National Network to End Domestic Violence.