
Welcome to my library
As you read and listen, I hope you find the tools you need for your personal healing journey or navigating Collaborative Divorce.
Mental Health
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Unlocking Us: Burnout
Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle. Brene Brown and the Nagoski sisters discuss what causes burnout, the effect on our bodies, and how to move through emotional exhaustion…
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The Dopamine Expert
From smartphones, to sugar, to exercising, the modern world is plagued by dopamine addictions, and Dr Anna Lembke holds the key to breaking free…
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Breaking Cycles and Reparenting Yourself
Dr. Becky Kennedy joins the We Can Do Hard Things podcast to discuss: the 3 most important things to say to your kids every day, why our kids trigger us, why “poorly-behaved kids” can be a sign of good parenting….
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Overwhelm
Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs? Ever wondered about the job description we've somehow accepted for motherhood—and whether self-abandonment is a job requirement?
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Burnout
The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to exist as a woman in today’s world are two different things—and we exhaust ourselves trying to close the gap… -
The Gifts of Imperfection
This book is an invitation to join a wholehearted revolution. A small, quiet, grassroots movement that starts with each of us saying, ‘My story matters because I matter.’…
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Self-Compassion
The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients…
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The Highly Sensitive Person
How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. Are you a highly sensitive person? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water…
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No Bad Parts
Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness. Is there just one ‘you’? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match...
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Headspace
Through evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, sleep resources, mental health coaching, and more, Headspace helps you create habits to support your mental health and find a healthier, happier you.
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Calm
Designed to help you manage stress, sleep better, and live a happier, healthier life. Calm’s research-based tools help you build life-changing habits to support your mental health.
Relationships
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Love on a Timeline
Trevor Noah and Esther Perel talk through all the phases of ‘the perfect relationship model’ –where to find someone, the perfect date, defining the relationship, weathering storms, sex, and even how to end things.
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The Gottman Doctors
The 3 skills you need for a healthy relationship, the steps to repair a relationship after an argument, why kissing can extend your life, and how cuddling leads to a better sex life.
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Us
Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness—and there’s also not much that’s more important….
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The 7 Principals
The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work guide couples toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments…
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Fight Right
How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection. How we fight predicts the future of our relationships. Most of us enter conflict without knowing what we are really fighting about…
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Come As You Are
Groundbreaking science and research proves that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.
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You Are the One
Do relationships end because couples lack communication skills, empathy, and fail to meet each other’s needs? That’s a common belief within and outside of the therapeutic world -but what if it’s all wrong?
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Mating in Captivity
Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, Esther Perel offers a provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire.
Parenting
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Dr Becky Kennedy
Dr Becky Kennedy, a clinical psychologist, mom of three, and founder of Good Inside teaches about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory.
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Good Inside
This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving—which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise and practical guide to raising resilient, emotionally healthy kids.
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Shanker Self-Reg
Self-Reg Is a framework to deal with stress so that we experience calm in mind and body and begin to restore physiologically, emotionally, psychologically and socially. We teach caregivers to be better equipped to support dysregulated kids.
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Self-Reg
How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life. No matter how difficult, out of control, distracted, or exhausted a child might seem, there’s a way forward: self-regulation.
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Caregivers
Mental Health Foundations. Resources and opportunities for caregivers inspired by EFFT and beyond...
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The Whole-Brain Child
This book explores the science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties.…
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Hold on to Your Kids
Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. Children take their lead from their friends: being ‘cool’ matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents….
Divorce and Co-parenting
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Our Family Wizard
Streamline your parenting schedule, shared expenses and communication with the #1 court-recommended peaceful co‑parenting app. OurFamilyWizard is specifically designed to reduce the stress of managing family plans across separate households.
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The Co-Parenting Handbook
Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation. A valuable co-parenting guide, this book offers tools for navigating conflicts and setting boundaries so families can thrive.
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Overcoming the Co-Parenting Trap
Essential Parenting Skills When a Child Resists a Parent. Practical insight on two central questions: Why does a child resist contact with a parent? How can I best support my child to have healthy relationships with both parents?
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CALM
CALM is the Collaborative Association of the BC Lower Mainland. Their website provides resources for clients, potential clients and practitioners including helpful tools and FAQ along with names of professional members who are practicing the Collaborative process.
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Collaborative Divorce Vancouver Society
CDV is a membership for those practicing the Collaborative approach in the Greater Vancouver area. This site provides helpful resources, FAQ, and professional connections for those interested in the Collaborative process in Separation/Divorce or finding a professional trained in Collaborative work.
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IACP
The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) is a global community of legal, mental health and financial professionals working in concert to create client-centered processes for resolving conflict.
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BC Collaborative Roster Society
Providing opportunities for the public to access information about Collaborative Practice, as well as a BC roster of trained, experienced professionals committed to excellence in Collaborative Practice in all of BC.
Women
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Women Who Run with the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women…
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Wild Power
Unprecedented insight into the feminine body and on using its natural rhythms to heal, find balance and reconnect to our emotions. Your power lies in the rhythm of your menstrual cycle. Connect with your body on a deeper level to find healing, balance and wholeness…
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Wise Power
A trailblazing guide to menopause, filled with wisdom to help you harness the transformative power of menopause and thrive in your life. Often viewed as a health crisis that is ‘suffered from’ or ‘coped with’, misinformation and myths around menopause can leave you feeling ignored and misunderstood…