Survival + Coping
Emotional First Aid
Guided Meditations for legacy burdens (for BIPOC folks: The Pain We Carry)
6 guided healing meditations
Body Sensations List
Peer Support Space
Resiliency Building for Trauma Recovery
Route of Safety Model
Rest here: Virtual Care Lab
Suicide Intervention Zine
What I wish you knew about Suicidality
Organizing
Community Safety Tool Kit
Instead of Calling the Police
Decentering the use of police: An abolitionist approach to safety planning in psychotherapy
Project LETS Anti-Carceral Crisis and Safety Plan
Interrupting criminalization/anti-policing tool kit
Stopping Interpersonal Violence Tool Kit
Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence: A Toolkit for Survivors and Supporters
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre (formerly known as WAVAW)
Qmunity
Education Resources
For Adult children with emotionally immature parents
Institute for Radical Permission
White Supremacy Characteristics
Blog on Disability Justice by Mia Mingus
Working with Emotions around Climate Anxiety
Adi Magazine: Literary Journal Rehumanizing Policy
Start a Climate-aware Group by All You Can Save
Book List for Addressing Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence by Next Gen Men
Accessibility Resource List
Anti-racist Ally Study Guide (Justice in June)
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
LGBTQ2S+ Resources
Find a Doctor (Queer and Trans-friendly)
RISE Community Health (Trans doctors)
Spectrum Health (Queer doctors clinic)
Diversity and Emotional Wellness Centre (Dr. wallace Wong, R.Psych for cross-cultural transgender youth issues)
For Male-identifying persons
HeadsUpGuys: Resource, Self-Check, and Stories around Men’s Depression
Pathway for Men and Boys: Community to engage in Gender-Based Justice
Health At Every Size resources
For ED, Disordered Eating and Body Image Concerns
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-love by Sonya Renee Taylor @sonyareneetaylor
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown
The Art of Body Acceptance by Ashlee Bennett @bodyimage_therapist
@nalgonapositivitypride
@fatmarquisele
@break.binge.eating
On Art/Creativity
@gisellebuchanan
Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Art is a Way of Knowing by Pat B. Allen
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul by Shaun Mcniff
Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go by Shaun Mcniff
Creativity Workshop by Kuu Pottery
Books
Self-healing and social justice-related
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y Gutiérrez LMFT
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
Where to Begin by Cleo Wade
Podcasts
Social justice and mental health related
For The Wild: thought leaders and visionaries discuss the intersection between social and environmental justice
Your Anxiety Toolkit: Mindfulness-based tools for Anxiety, OCD, Depression and mental struggles.
Finding Our Way: it is an exploration into ourselves, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want.
Disorderland: pathology culture and an abolitionist take on the world of mental health, trauma, and neurodiversity
Madness Radio: stories of folks who have been incarcerated by psychiatric help, from an activist and decolonizing lens
Wisdom carriers, Teachers
@wokescientist
@softcore_trauma
@dr.han.ren
@kaichengthom
@alokvmenon
@itsjiyoun
@leahlakshmiwrites
@decolonizingtherapy
@asiansformentalhealth
@QueerSexTherapy
@gabestorres
@ykreborn
@ijeomaoluo
@connectwithoumou
When nothing else is available…
Mental Health Support Line: 310-6789 (no area code; connects to local BC crisis line without the wait)
BC Crisis Line: 1800-784-2433 (1-800-SUICIDE)
VictimLink BC: 1-800-563-0808
KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717(for Indigenous folks)
Trans Lifeline: 1-877-330-6366
Vancouver Crisis Line: 604-872-3311
Kids Help Phone: Text 686868 or Call 1800-668-6868
Senior Distress Line: 604-872-1234
Directories
Abolition Centered Care Provider Database
Lower Cost Offerings
Resource list updated quarterly by Willow Tree Counselling
Free counselling and resources for mental health and substance use by Wellness Together Canada
Available Practitioners
List of available practitioners monitored by Linda from Decipher Counselling