Our Favorites to Support Your Journey
Resources for Healing and Self Awareness
WEBSITES
Center for Enlightenment ~ Spiritual Education Dedicated to the Truth of Your Being
Brainspotting International
Love and Logic Institute ~ Foundational Parenting Support
Kolbe Index ~ Conation: Learn what motivates you to make decisions!
5 Love Languages ~The Love Language® Quiz: Free for couples, singles, teens, and children.
Take this quiz to discover your primary love language, what it means, and how you can use it to better connect with your loved ones.
Center for Enlightenment ~ Spiritual Education Dedicated to the Truth of Your Being
- Spiritual Power Tools: Support for Your Soul ~ Full book online
- Seven Steps for Successful Life Transitions ~ Journaling process and meditation
Brainspotting International
- See also our Brainspotting page
Love and Logic Institute ~ Foundational Parenting Support
- See also our Parent Coaching page
Kolbe Index ~ Conation: Learn what motivates you to make decisions!
5 Love Languages ~The Love Language® Quiz: Free for couples, singles, teens, and children.
Take this quiz to discover your primary love language, what it means, and how you can use it to better connect with your loved ones.
Great Read of the Day:
The Mountain Is You
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery
by Brianna Wiest
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
by Brianna Wiest
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
BOOKS
Spiritual Power Tools: Support for Your Soul
by Jane Elizabeth Hart, Center for Enlightenment
Meditation: Your Key to Accessing Universal Consciousness
by Jane Elizabeth Hart, Center for Enlightenment
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery
by Brianna Wiest
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: Hold Me Tight Workbook
by Dr. Sue Johnson
Drawing on the latest developments in Emotionally Focused Therapy, a field pioneered by Dr. Johnson, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is packed with sage wisdom and science-backed advice, as well as compelling conversation prompts, exercises, activities, and resources to help couples work through conflict and achieve greater levels of intimacy. Whether you're celebrating your 50th anniversary or your first, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is an invaluable guide to cultivating a deeper connection — and more fulfilling relationship — with the person you love most.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Emotional Clearing: An East / West Guide to Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness
by John Ruskan
Emotional Clearing presents a guide to inner work for experiencing and accepting feelings, and finally releasing them. It offers an enlightened program for taking responsibility for feelings, opening to them, and experiencing them fully in order to have them cleared from the subconscious, where they have been building and causing havoc. Combining the Eastern spiritual healing principle of acceptance with the Western idea of the subconscious, Ruskan's theory is a radical departure from the Western paradigm that negative feelings must be disposed of actively. Covering topics such as feeling through the body, the centers of consciousness and addiction, direct experience, transformation, practical inner work, and breath work.
Spiritual Gifts of the 12 Astrological Signs
by Aluna Michaels, M.A.
Each astrological sign comes with innate strengths cultivated from previous lives, as well as important lessons for the soul to learn in the present incarnation. This book concisely describes the ways to best utilize the qualities you've worked so hard to acquire. Every astrological sign is also given spiritual steps to take to grow in directions that will create even greater empowerment, confidence and serenity. You'll be armed with unique information that will help you be more successful on your spiritual journey!
Brainspotting Books and Resources
"Brainspotting lets the therapist and client participate together in the healing process," explains Dr. Grand. "It allows us to harness the brain's natural ability for self-scanning, so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body." With Brainspotting, this pioneering researcher introduces an invaluable tool that can support virtually any form of therapeutic practice―and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.
Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change
by David Grand Ph.D.
Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. Now Dr. David Grand presents the next leap forward in psychological care―combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies into a powerful technique he calls Brainspotting. In Brainspotting, Dr. Grand reveals the key insight that allowed him to develop this revolutionary therapeutic tool: that where we look reveals critical information about what's going on in our brain. Join him to learn about:
The history of Brainspotting―how it evolved from EMDR practice as a more versatile tool for brain-based therapy
A Special Place In My Brain: A Brainspotting Book For Kids
by Josh Delahan LCSW
Aaliyah wants to tell you how she went from feeling scared and sad to joyful and strong. She learned that where you look affects how you feel and that, if you focus on the right spot, those uncomfortable feelings in your body can get smaller and smaller until POOF, they're gone! "A Special Place In My Brain" talks to kids about how, when very difficult things happen, our brains hold on to those memories as well as the uncomfortable feelings that go with them, until we do something to heal and let them go. Aaliyah, the main character, talks kids through the process of finding a Brainspot(TM) for a negative memory or issue and focusing mindfully on the sensations, thoughts, and feelings that are ‘held’ within that spot. She lets kids know that during this mindfulness-based process, they might experience different kinds of feelings and sensations until eventually, the discomfort gets smaller and can even go away completely. At the end of the book, there is an explanation for parents and caregivers about how to guide and support kids through this healing activity. There are also resources and other helpful tools included that will complement the information in the book. This book is not intended to replace professional support for psychological issues that the child might have.
The Power of Brainspotting: An international Anthology
by Gerhard Wolfrum
Eleven expert trainers focus on the power of the Brainspotting technique as a body-brain-based relational therapy with reference to the most important principles of treatment developed by David - dual attunement - the role of grounding and remaining silent - the "no assumption" and the "uncertainty" principles - the "follow the head of the comet" metaphor dealing with grief and loss using Brainspotting with children and teenagers and with competitive athletes and performing artists suffering from performance anxiety Use of this method with complex traumatized patients as well as empirical analysis make it clear why Brainspotting has proved itself to be an effective and patient-friendly approach in trauma therapy. An inspiring, required reading for trauma experts as well as for interested non-professionals and those affected by trauma.
Beyond the Self: Healing Emotional Trauma and Brainspotting
by Mario C Salvador (Author), David Grand (Foreword)
In this book Mario C. Salvador intends to illustrate the long journey that takes us from our essentially kind and pure nature to build our egoic identity related to the experiences we live, the environments in which we develop and educate ourselves and the influences to which we are subjected throughout the period of our lives. He exposes how we are giving shape to our ideas of the self in order to, in the best of cases, return to become reacquainted with our core Self, or the essence of our identity; that which calls out from deep within each one of us to be released, to find our own individual meaning of life.
This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!
by David Grand (Author), Alan Goldberg (Author)
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! is the ground-breaking book that will change the face of sports performance forever. This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems. Performance blocks and anxiety, including the yips, stem from accumulated sports traumas including sports injuries, failures and humiliations. The authors also introduce the Brainspotting Sports Performance System (BSPS) which quickly finds, releases and resolves the sports trauma
Pointers for Brainspotting Practitioners:
Telescopic Teachers Pointer
Mini Extendable Hand Pointer Finger Pointer Stick
Telescopic Big Finger Teacher Pointer for Classroom
2pcs Telescopic Teacher Pointer for School Teaching
Telescopic Teacher Pointer Telescoping Pointer Stick for Classroom Presentation
Bilateral Music for Brainspotting
Brainspotting: Biolateral Sound Healing to Enhance Your Brain by David Grand
Brain Stimulation Music Therapy by Harper Serenity
Solitude by Bodhi Tree Bilateral (Staff favorite!)
Reflection by Bodhi Tree Bilateral (Staff favorite!)
Other Brainspotting Support:
Disposal Headphone covers
Spiritual Power Tools: Support for Your Soul
by Jane Elizabeth Hart, Center for Enlightenment
- Kindle ~ Make sure you are purchasing the 2024 edition! It has new chapters on the Observer Self!
- Paperback (coming soon!)
Meditation: Your Key to Accessing Universal Consciousness
by Jane Elizabeth Hart, Center for Enlightenment
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery
by Brianna Wiest
For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: Hold Me Tight Workbook
by Dr. Sue Johnson
Drawing on the latest developments in Emotionally Focused Therapy, a field pioneered by Dr. Johnson, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is packed with sage wisdom and science-backed advice, as well as compelling conversation prompts, exercises, activities, and resources to help couples work through conflict and achieve greater levels of intimacy. Whether you're celebrating your 50th anniversary or your first, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is an invaluable guide to cultivating a deeper connection — and more fulfilling relationship — with the person you love most.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Emotional Clearing: An East / West Guide to Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness
by John Ruskan
Emotional Clearing presents a guide to inner work for experiencing and accepting feelings, and finally releasing them. It offers an enlightened program for taking responsibility for feelings, opening to them, and experiencing them fully in order to have them cleared from the subconscious, where they have been building and causing havoc. Combining the Eastern spiritual healing principle of acceptance with the Western idea of the subconscious, Ruskan's theory is a radical departure from the Western paradigm that negative feelings must be disposed of actively. Covering topics such as feeling through the body, the centers of consciousness and addiction, direct experience, transformation, practical inner work, and breath work.
Spiritual Gifts of the 12 Astrological Signs
by Aluna Michaels, M.A.
Each astrological sign comes with innate strengths cultivated from previous lives, as well as important lessons for the soul to learn in the present incarnation. This book concisely describes the ways to best utilize the qualities you've worked so hard to acquire. Every astrological sign is also given spiritual steps to take to grow in directions that will create even greater empowerment, confidence and serenity. You'll be armed with unique information that will help you be more successful on your spiritual journey!
Brainspotting Books and Resources
"Brainspotting lets the therapist and client participate together in the healing process," explains Dr. Grand. "It allows us to harness the brain's natural ability for self-scanning, so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body." With Brainspotting, this pioneering researcher introduces an invaluable tool that can support virtually any form of therapeutic practice―and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.
Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change
by David Grand Ph.D.
Brain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. Now Dr. David Grand presents the next leap forward in psychological care―combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies into a powerful technique he calls Brainspotting. In Brainspotting, Dr. Grand reveals the key insight that allowed him to develop this revolutionary therapeutic tool: that where we look reveals critical information about what's going on in our brain. Join him to learn about:
The history of Brainspotting―how it evolved from EMDR practice as a more versatile tool for brain-based therapy
- Brainspotting in action―case studies and evidence for the effectiveness of the technique
- An overview of the different aspects of Brainspotting and how to use them
- Between sessions―how clients can use Brainspotting on their own to reinforce and accelerate healing
- Why working simultaneously with the right and left brain can lead to expanded creativity and athletic performance
- How Brainspotting can be used to treat PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, physical pain, chronic illness, and much more
A Special Place In My Brain: A Brainspotting Book For Kids
by Josh Delahan LCSW
Aaliyah wants to tell you how she went from feeling scared and sad to joyful and strong. She learned that where you look affects how you feel and that, if you focus on the right spot, those uncomfortable feelings in your body can get smaller and smaller until POOF, they're gone! "A Special Place In My Brain" talks to kids about how, when very difficult things happen, our brains hold on to those memories as well as the uncomfortable feelings that go with them, until we do something to heal and let them go. Aaliyah, the main character, talks kids through the process of finding a Brainspot(TM) for a negative memory or issue and focusing mindfully on the sensations, thoughts, and feelings that are ‘held’ within that spot. She lets kids know that during this mindfulness-based process, they might experience different kinds of feelings and sensations until eventually, the discomfort gets smaller and can even go away completely. At the end of the book, there is an explanation for parents and caregivers about how to guide and support kids through this healing activity. There are also resources and other helpful tools included that will complement the information in the book. This book is not intended to replace professional support for psychological issues that the child might have.
The Power of Brainspotting: An international Anthology
by Gerhard Wolfrum
Eleven expert trainers focus on the power of the Brainspotting technique as a body-brain-based relational therapy with reference to the most important principles of treatment developed by David - dual attunement - the role of grounding and remaining silent - the "no assumption" and the "uncertainty" principles - the "follow the head of the comet" metaphor dealing with grief and loss using Brainspotting with children and teenagers and with competitive athletes and performing artists suffering from performance anxiety Use of this method with complex traumatized patients as well as empirical analysis make it clear why Brainspotting has proved itself to be an effective and patient-friendly approach in trauma therapy. An inspiring, required reading for trauma experts as well as for interested non-professionals and those affected by trauma.
Beyond the Self: Healing Emotional Trauma and Brainspotting
by Mario C Salvador (Author), David Grand (Foreword)
In this book Mario C. Salvador intends to illustrate the long journey that takes us from our essentially kind and pure nature to build our egoic identity related to the experiences we live, the environments in which we develop and educate ourselves and the influences to which we are subjected throughout the period of our lives. He exposes how we are giving shape to our ideas of the self in order to, in the best of cases, return to become reacquainted with our core Self, or the essence of our identity; that which calls out from deep within each one of us to be released, to find our own individual meaning of life.
This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!
by David Grand (Author), Alan Goldberg (Author)
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! is the ground-breaking book that will change the face of sports performance forever. This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems. Performance blocks and anxiety, including the yips, stem from accumulated sports traumas including sports injuries, failures and humiliations. The authors also introduce the Brainspotting Sports Performance System (BSPS) which quickly finds, releases and resolves the sports trauma
Pointers for Brainspotting Practitioners:
Telescopic Teachers Pointer
Mini Extendable Hand Pointer Finger Pointer Stick
Telescopic Big Finger Teacher Pointer for Classroom
2pcs Telescopic Teacher Pointer for School Teaching
Telescopic Teacher Pointer Telescoping Pointer Stick for Classroom Presentation
Bilateral Music for Brainspotting
Brainspotting: Biolateral Sound Healing to Enhance Your Brain by David Grand
Brain Stimulation Music Therapy by Harper Serenity
Solitude by Bodhi Tree Bilateral (Staff favorite!)
Reflection by Bodhi Tree Bilateral (Staff favorite!)
Other Brainspotting Support:
Disposal Headphone covers