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Handouts

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Meditation

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Recamended Reading: Race

  • Nonfiction and Fiction books on black women and mental health:
  • Black Pain- Terrie Williams
  • The Bluest Eye, Beloved -Toni Morrison
  • The Color Purple -Alice Walker (You have probably seen the movie but the book does it better)
  • Willow Weep for Me- Meri Danquah
  • Bipolar Faith and Not Alone -Monica Coleman
  • Can I Get a Witness? Black Women and Depression. -Julia Boyd
  • What the Blues is All About -B.D Mitchell
  • Too Heavy a Yoke, Black Women and Strength -Chenquea Walker
  • Sooth your Nerves- Angela Neal-Barnett
  • The Sisters Are Alright -Tamara Winfrey Harris (I think this is more about image)
  • Shfiting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America (This is about image as well)
  • All About Love -Bell Hooks (discusses ideas of love that I think are relevant to mental health and the way we engage in relationships)
  • Twelve Tribes of Hattie -Ayana Harris

Online
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Recamended Reading: The Body

  • Body Positive Readings
  • Hunger by Roxanne Gay
  • Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon
  • Things no one will tell fat girls by Jes Baker
  • Body Respect by Backn and Aphramor
  • The Body is Not An Apology by sonya Renee Taylor
  • The Diet Survivors Handbook by Matz
  • Eating by the Light of the Moon by Johnston

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Before The EMDR

Before Starting EMDR please check out these links:
 
  • Explanation of the triune brain model: LINK
  • Example of a session: LINK
    • This is a full hour session demonstration, you don't not need to watch the entire thing, check out bits and pieces just to get a feel.​
  • What is EMDR according to EMDRIA?: LINK
  • Youtube video on what is EMDR: LINK
  • Another video on EMDR: LINK​
     
Before
The Body Keeps the Score
Getting Past Your Past
What happened to you