Guidance Resources

Parenting

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute (Website)

Tina Payne Bryson (Website)

Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids (Mona Delahooke, PhD, 2022)

Play to Progress: Lead Your Child to Success Using the Power of Sensory Play (Allie Ticktin, 2021)

The Bottom Line for Baby: From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time (Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, 2020)

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, 2012)

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson, 2011)

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Dan Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson, 2014)

Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens: Empowering Your Kids to Navigate Bullying, Teasing, and Social Exclusion (Kim John Payne, MEd, & Luis Fernando Llosa, 2022)

Out: A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kid Through Coming Out and Beyond (John Sovec, 2023)

Other Resources

Where Words Can’t Reach (Madeleine M. De Little, PhD, 2019)

Rhythm of Regulation (Website - Deb Dana)

Family Ties That Bind: A self-help guide to change through Family of Origin therapy (Ronald W. Richardson, PhD, 2011)

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, & Oprah Winfrey, 2021)

Internal Family Systems Institute (Website)

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, 2021)

You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships (Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, 2023)

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, 2015)

The New Peoplemaking (Virginia Satir, 1988)

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Bonnie Badenoch, 2017)

Attachment Based Teaching: Creating A Tribal Classroom (Louis Cozolino, 2014)

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships 2e: Attachment And The Developing Social Brain (Louis Cozolino, 2014)

Podcasts

How To Help Your Anxious Child + Tips For Raising Mentally Strong Children (Dr. Caroline Leaf, 2020)

Raising Good Humans (Dr. Aliza Pressman)

Good Inside (Dr. Becky Kennedy)

How to Be a Teacher, Parent or Leader Who Changes Lives (Chazz Lewis)

Therapy4Dads (Travis Goodman)

BC Bookstores

The Book Man - New & Used Book Store (Abbotsford & Chilliwack Locations)

Odin Books (108 E Broadway, Vancouver)

Vancouver Kidsbooks (Two Vancouver Locations)

AbeBooks (Used Online Bookstore)

Quotes To Ponder

“For a child or an adult, it’s extremely powerful to hear someone say, 'I get you. I understand. I see why you feel this way.' This kind of empathy disarms us.” -Daniel J. Siegel

“Play is not frivolous; it is brain building.” -American Academy of Pediatrics

“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.” -Anne Lamott

“Compassion is not a luxury. Compassion is necessary for healing all wounds.” -Dr. Les Aria

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They are part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others.” -Rachel Naomi Remen

“Trust is rebuilt only when victims see that those in a position of authority have listened to them and share in their righteous indignation.” -Judith Herman, 'Truth and Repair', 2023

“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.” -Russel Barkley

“As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people turn into their own wisdom.” -Virginia Satir