Resources
Dr. Jim Hopper provides a website that is chock full of information about our brain, the impacts of childhood sexual abuse, brain mechanisms related to addiction, and so much more. His generosity is much appreciated!
Another amazing website with free resources to help you understand and develop self compassion.
I have learned so much from Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen. I appreciate their love of learning and teaching. Who would have thought that economics would enter my life? Especially after Walter Johnson’s Econ 51 at Mizzou so many years ago!
The International Association of EMDR website answers questions about this amazing modality, a therapist directory, and much more!
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck created self-report inventory scales for anxiety and depression. Therapists and clients can monitor changes over time, and the scales provide an objective measure for judging improvement and the effectiveness of treatment methods.
Thank you, Deb Dana, LCSW, for your amazing work with Polyvagal Theory and providing the ladder to help us navigate our nervous system!
Music lights up the soul and according to neuroscience, these songs inspire happiness.
Dissociation is an often-missed symptom of traumatic experience. ISSTD seeks to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is an American organization whose "mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States”.