Local support lines

• Crisis Connections, King County’s 24-hour crisis line: 1 (866) 427-4747
• New Beginnings, 24-hour hotline to support those impacted by intimate partner violence: (206) 522-9472
• King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, 24-hour hotline: 1 (888) 998-6423
• Washington Listens, support line that provides “non-clinical support to people who feel sad, anxious, or stressed due to COVID-19: 1 (833) 681-0211
• Washington Warm Line, peer support line answered by trained volunteers: 1 (877) 500-9276

How can psychotherapy help me?

If you’re wanting more background about how psychotherapy works — and how it might help you — this video provides a good basic explanation:

The School of Life is a UK-based organization dedicated to helping people develop emotional intelligence. More (amazing!) videos online here.

Self-care ideas

• Headspace — A great place to start if you’re interested in meditation and mindfulness.
• On Being with Krista Tippett — “Pursuing deep thinking and moral imagination, social courage and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together.”
• Tara Brach — Podcast with reflections and guided meditations by mindfulness teacher and clinical psychologist Tara Brach.
• Unlocking Us with Brenee Brown — Podcast with interviews and reflections by shame and vulnerability researcher Brenee Brown.
• Yoga with Adriene — Free yoga videos for all bodies with Adriene and her sweet puppy.
• Sonya Renee Taylor — Poet, activist, author and leader.

Recommended reading:

• My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, by Lindsay C. Gibson
• The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel A. van der Kolk
• The Drama of the Gifted Child, by Alice Miller
• Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy, by Philippa Perry
• The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonja Renee Taylor
• So You Want To Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel