Local support lines

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

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

• Do Yoga With Me — Free yoga videos with a variety of teachers.
• 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.
• Tarot for the Wild Soul with Lindsay Mack — “A weekly tarot podcast about life, death, and rebirth.”
• 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

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May I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.

From “A Morning Offering,”
by John O’Donohue