
Resources
We are so grateful for the incredible hearts and minds that have sought to understand human suffering and how to promote healing and flourishing. Here are just some of our favourite resources that have shaped Courageous Being. We hope they inspire you too.
Podcasts we love
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Therapist Uncensored
A podcast that seeks to translate the complex relational sciences and psychology into understandable and practical tools that can give you the power you need to uncover your best self.
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We Heart Therapy
A podcast on how to live a better life, have successful relationships, and discusses different types of therapy available so that you know which is the best fit for you.
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Where Should We Begin
A podcast for anyone who has ever loved. Step into iconic couples therapist Esther Perel's office and listen as real couples anonymously bare the raw, intimate, and profound details of their story.
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Foreplay Radio
This podcast is about the vital topics of sexuality, marriage, eroticism, and committed partnership.
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The Leading Edge Podcast
A podcast for therapists in how to reach their leading edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy
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That Relationship Show
A podcast where couples counselling meets the everyday.
Books we love on Emotionally Focused Therapy & Attachment
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Attachment Theory in Practice
The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy for couples, Johnson now extends her attachment-based approach to individuals and families. The volume shows how EFT aligns perfectly with attachment theory as it provides proven techniques for treating anxiety, depression, and relationship problems.
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Hold Me Tight
This is an EFT book for the general public. Through case studies from her practice, Johnson presents illuminating advice and practical exercises so that couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
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A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy: Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client
Designed for therapists, this primer introduces clinicians to EFIT interventions, techniques, and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format. The book begins by summarizing attachment theory and science – the theoretical basis of this model – together with the experiential approach to change in psychotherapy
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An Emotionally Focused Workbook for Couples: The Two of Us
This workbook is intended for use with couples who want to enhance their emotional connection or overcome their relationship distress. It is recommended for use with couples pursuing Emotionally Focused Therapy.
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Polysecure
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy.
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Attached
Discover how an understanding of adult attachment--the most advanced relationship science in existence today--can help us find and sustain love.
Books on trauma and emotional regulation
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Clinical Insights From the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
Dana provides a grab bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions.
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The Body Keeps the Score
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress
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Healing Trauma
On Healing Trauma, respected therapist and teacher Peter A. Levine brings you face to face with his effective new treatment - not a "talking" cure, but a deep physiological process for releasing your past traumas and instilling a harmonious awareness of your body.
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
Fisher integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist.
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ACT for Trauma
In Trauma-Focused ACT, renowned acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer Russ Harris offers a new and innovative ACT-based protocol for treating trauma in clients, which integrates cutting-edge therapeutic developments to treat the broadest possible range of trauma-related disorders-from anxiety and depression to chronic pain and addiction.
Other books we think you’ll love
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Come As You Are
An essential exploration of women's sexuality that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
If you have even an ounce of interest in the therapeutic process, or in the conundrum of being human, you must read this book.
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Kitchen Table Wisdom
This collection of true stories draws on the concept of "kitchen table wisdom"-- the human tradition of shared experience that shows us life in all its power and mystery and reminds us that the things we cannot measure may be the things that ultimately sustain and enrich our lives.
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The Gifts of Imperfection
The Gifts of Imperfection teaches us not to change ourselves to adapt to expectations, instead, we should embrace and engage with our imperfections. The core insights center on empathy, understanding, and adopting "wholehearted living," so that we start living for ourselves, and not for other people.
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Radical Acceptance
Tara brings her teachings alive through personal stories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance.
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Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor Frankl, a survivor of Auschwitz, noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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