Resources

Local & National Resources

• Suicide Prevention Hotline & Support
• Sexual Violence Hotline & Support
• 24/7 National Support Text Line
• Los Angeles Warmline
• Postpartum Support International
• Maternal Mental Health Now
• Return to Zero: H.O.P.E.
• Pregnancy After Loss Support (PALS)
• Los Angeles Abortion Support Collective
• The Trevor Project
• Psychology Today
• Open Path Collective
• 2020Mom Policy

Couples

• Where Should We Begin? (Podcast)
• Baby Bomb by Kara Hoppe and Stan Tatkin
• And Baby Makes Three by Gottman
• Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
• Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
• The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
• Conscious Uncoupling by Katherine Woodward Thomas
• Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Parenting

• Motherhood Sessions (Podcast)
• The Psychology of Parenting (Podcast)
• Sleepy Qs (Podcast)
• The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry
• Cribsheet by Emily Oster
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
• No-Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel
• Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma by Heather Turgeon
• The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman
• Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
• The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting by Brené Brown

Pregnancy & Perinatal Mental Health

• Mom & Mind (Podcast)
• Expecting Better by Emily Oster
• Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin
• The Birth Partner (5th Ed) by Penny Simkin
• This Isn’t What I Expected by Karen R. Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin
• Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts by Karen R. Kleiman
• What No One Tells You by Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf
• The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson

Infertility & Pregnancy Loss

• IVF This (Podcast)
• Evoke Fertility Meditations (App)
• The Trying Game by Amy Klein
• I Had a Miscarriage by Jessica Zucker
• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart by Deborah L. Davis
• Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child by Ellen Mitchell
• It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok by Megan Devine
• It Starts with the Egg by Rebecca Fett
• Hormone Intelligence by Aviva Romm

For Trauma (& Healing the Inner Child)

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
• Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
• It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
• What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Children’s Books for Separation or Divorce

• Two Homes by Claire Masurel
• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
• When My Parents Forgot How to Be Friends by Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
• Living with Mom and Living with Dad by Melanie Walsh
• Mom and Dad Glue by Kes Gray and Lee Wildish
• When Mom and Dad Separate by Marge Heegaard
• Cooperative Co-Parenting for Secure Kids by Aurisha Smolarski

For Emotional Wellbeing

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• On Being (Podcast)
• Tara Brach (Podcast)
• Insight Timer (App)
• Headspace (App)
• Brightmind (App)

Research

Esketamine used to treat postpartum depression: read here