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Ted Talks
The Power of Vulnerability - Brene Brown
A child of the State - Lemn Sissay. Enlightening and encouraging words for those ‘Care experienced’ or Care Leavers
We don’t ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it - Nora Mclnerny
The Beautiful reality of autism - Guy Shahah
‘To this day’- For the bullied and the beautiful - Shane Koyczan
Articles
James Pennebaker on therapeutic journaling -https://austinkleon.com/2018/11/02/james-pennebaker-on-therapeutic-journaling/
Samantha Craft’s Unofficial Checklist ‘Female and Aspergers’
Neurodiversity: Some basic terms and definitions: Neurocosmopolitanism https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=0CAMQw7AJahcKEwjA5LXhqav8AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fneuroqueer.com%2Fneurodiversity-terms-and-definitions%2F&psig=AOvVaw2wTgQJQNh3DTWg7FaeELNn&ust=1672832698218356
Autistic Women
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/women_late_diagnosis_autism
Medical misogyny is causing a mental health crisis among autistic women https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/autism-medical-misogyny?fbclid=IwAR2oKsYbWF3fweduiOsUBmZ6BUFfpH7GqD3lz1F_fk0gwDKOUV2W-TKwS9o
Books
Neurodivergence
Trauma, Stigma and Autism- Developing Resilience and loosening the grip of shame- Gordon Gates
Anxiety Is really strange- Steve Haines-Art by Sophie Standing
Autism A Very Short Introduction - Uta Frith
Everyday Aspergers - Samantha Craft
Counselling People on the Autism Spectrum-A Practical Manual - Katherine Paxton and Irene A. Estay
The Autism Industrial Complex - How branding, marketing and capital investment turned Autism into big business - Alicia A Broderick
Trauma
Trauma is really strange- Steve Haines-Art by Sophie Standing
Healing Trauma-A Pioneering program for restoring the wisdom of your body- Peter Levine
The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel van der Kolk
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma - Betsy de Thierry
The Heart of Trauma - Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationship - Bonnie Badenoch
My Grandmothers Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem
Attachment
The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children - Betsy de Thierry
ADHD
https://www.additudemag.com/body-focused-repetitive-behaviors-adhd-anxiety/ Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours
ADHD 2:0 - Edward M Hallowell MD & John M Ratey MD
ADHD and skin picking - http://www.theminiadhdcoach.com/
Is it OCD or ADHD? (article) https://www.additudemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/10230_Understand-Conditions_is-it-ocd-or-adhd.pdf
Explaining ADHD and Executive Dysfunction - https://mediachomp.com/explaining-adhd-and-executive-dysfunction/?fbclid=IwAR1XCY22PeLJnnHyzIa0uQphjurwVFWNoeQGZOR-pXyvr_qDqH4t0ACFZyY
Twice Exceptional article https://www.additudemag.com/2e-adhd-autism-parent-child/
Emotional Intelligence/Self regulation
Delivering autism friendly courses, coaching, insight, and connection by people with lived experiencehttps://autismfromtheinside.com.au/
This talk is quite verbal and intellectual, but a great insight into the connections between mind and body. It offers an alternate view to the brain as the ‘command centre’ issuing orders to the rest of the body. Instead, what we call neuroscience, actually involves the whole body.
https://youtu.be/oqrz4cMQM5c
Loss, Grief and Depression
Tear Soup - A Recipe for Healing After Loss -Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
The Recovery Letters - Addressed to people experiencing depression - Edited by James Withey and Olivia Sagan
Songs that explain difficulties or emotional states (to listen to or to express yourself through singing)
Perfect - Alanis Morrissette (and most songs on her ‘Jagged Little Pill’ album)
Poems and films
Stay Wild
You were not born a statue
Nor rooted like a tree.
You were born a wild one;
A spirit pure and free.
No cage should hold you captive.
No title should define.
You’re flexible and fluid,
So can change at any time.
With nothing set in stone
And so much to explore
Wander down a million paths
And rattle every door.
Never stop adventuring.
Embrace your inner child.
Stay fearless & stay curious.
Stay positive. Stay wild.
Stay Wild is a short poem about life by English poet, Ms Moem. © All rights reserved.
Inside Out film - an introduction to emotional awareness
‘Stutz’ Film by Jonah Hill about his relationship with his therapist. Available on Netflix
Being a ‘black sheep’
‘The so-called black sheep of the family are, in fact, hunters born of paths of liberation into the family tree.
The members of a tree who do not conform to the norms or traditions of the family system, those who since childhood have constantly sought to revolutionise beliefs, going against the paths marked by family traditions, those criticised, judged and even rejected, these are usually called to free the tree of repetitive stories that frustrate entire generations.
The black sheep, those who do not adapt, those who cry rebelliously, play a basic role within each family system, they repair, pick up and create new and unfold branches in the family tree.
Thanks to these members, our trees renew their roots. Its rebellion is fertile soil, its madness is water that nourishes, its stubbornness is new air, its passion is fire that re-ignites the light of the heart of the ancestors.
Uncountable repressed desires, unfulfilled dreams, the frustrated talents of our ancestors are manifested in the rebelliousness of these black sheep seeking fulfilment. The genealogical tree, by inertia will want to continue to maintain the castrating and toxic course of its trunk, which makes the task of our sheep a difficult and conflicting work.
However, who would bring new flowers to our tree if it were not for them? Who would create new branches? Without them, the unfulfilled dreams of those who support the tree generations ago would die buried beneath their own roots.
Let no one cause you to doubt, take care of your rarity as the most precious flower of your tree.
You are the dream of all your ancestors’.
Bert Hellinger
