Dear Friends
There are many available resources for healing and recovery.
Below is a list of emergency numbers, books, podcasts, and Instagram accounts that help
provide clarity, understanding, and roadmaps to recovery. Many deal with abuse, addiction,
manipulation, high control relationships/groups, and/or narcissism and may be triggering.
Take good care.
Emergency Numbers
National Sexual Assault Hotline: online.rainn.org (chat) 1-800-656-4673
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453
Websites
The Recovery Village
Sexual Assault and Ride Shares
BOOKS
Atlas of the Heart; Brene Brown, PhD, MSW
Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults; Janja Lalich
Calling in the One; Katherine Woodward Thomas
Carefrontation; Arlene Drake, PhD, MFT
Codependency No More; Melody Beatie
Combatting Cult Mind Control; Steven Hassan, PhD
Cultish; Amanda Montell
Cults in our Midst; Margaret Thaler Singer
Daring Greatly; Brene Brown, PhD, MSW
Dare to Lead; Brene Brown, PhD, MSW
Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self Absorbed; Wendy T. Behary LCSW
Emotional Blackmail; Susan Forward, PhD
Facing Codependency; Pia Melody
Going Clear; Lawrence Wright
Group; Christie Tate
Loving What Is; Byron Katie
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone; Lori Gottlieb
Playing it By Heart; Melody Beattie
Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves; Steven Hassan, PhD
Running on Empty; Jonice Webb, PhD
Scarred; Sara Edmondson
Sex and the Spiritual Teacher; Scott Edelson
Splitting: Protecting Yourself while Divorcing a Borderline or Narcissist; William A. Eddy
Take Back Your Life; Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias
Terror, Love and Brainwashing; Alexandra Stein
The Betrayal Bond; Patrick Carnes
The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control; Steven Hassan, PhD
The Gifts of Imperfection; Brene Brown, Phd
The Inner Circle; Peter MacDonald Blachley
The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook; Glenn R. Schiraldi PhD
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond; Patricia Evans
Toxic Parents; Susan Forward, PhD
Trapped in the Mirror; Elan Golomb
Unf*ck your Boundaries; Faith G. Harper
Unf*ck your Boundaries Workbook; Faith G. Harper
Untamed; Glennon Doyle
What Happened to You?; Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD., Oprah Winfrey
What My Bones Know; Stephanie Foo
White Bird in a Golden Cage; Pamela Saharah Dyson
PODCASTS:
A Little bit Culty; Sara Edmondson and Anthony Ames
How to Fail; Elizabeth Day
Indoctrination; Rachel Bernstein, PhD
Magic Lessons; Elizabeth Gilbert
Super Soul; Oprah
The Happiness Lab; Laurie Santos
Unlocking Us; Brene Brown, PhD
We can do Hard Things; Glennon Doyle
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