Resources

Resources

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Below are resources for deeper self exploration and for more immediate concerns.

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Exploring Choice Journal Prompts
Exploring Choice Journal Prompts
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These free journaling prompts are intended to help you explore the many layers that influence a decision to become a parent. Questions are focused on:

  • Exploring desire & motivation

  • Personal identity

  • External influences & pressures

  • Practical considerations

  • Next steps: honoring what’s arising

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Exploring Choice

Reflective Questions to Help You Make an Empowered, Aligned Choice About Motherhood

These free journaling prompts are intended to help you explore the many layers that influence a decision to become a parent. Questions are focused on:

  • Exploring desire & motivation

  • Personal identity

  • External influences & pressures

  • Practical considerations

  • Next steps: honoring what’s arising

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Happy-ish Holidays

Reminders for teens managing tricky family moments, food stress, and self-esteem

The holiday season can be really hard for anyone who struggles with food, body image, or pressure to look a certain way. This guide includes gentle reminders and grounding tools to help you feel more at ease during this tricky time.

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Book Recommendations

Anxiety & Beyond

Women’s Life Transitions

Body Image & Disordered Eating

Book cover titled 'The Drama of the Gifted Child' by Alice Miller, featuring a watercolor illustration.
Book cover of "The Highly Sensitive Person" by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D., with a yellow background, orange leaf at the bottom, and text highlighting the 25th anniversary edition and title.
Book cover of "It Didn't Start With You" by Mark Wolynn featuring illustrations of blue and pink DNA helixes forming human profiles, along with a silver NUTLEY'S BOOK AWARDS WINNER medal and a small Penguin logo.
Book cover titled "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin, featuring a large black circle with a smaller black dot in the center on a white background.
Book cover for 'Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution' by Adrienne Rich, with an introduction by Eula Biss, featuring a blue abstract painted background.
Book cover titled 'Birthing from Within' with a quote, an illustration of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground next to a ladder leading to a light, and a gold badge indicating it is top 10 international book selection.
Book cover titled "Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. Features an illustration of a woman with long flowing hair holding a wolf's head, glowing with a radiant background.
Book cover with red background and abstract red watercolor artwork. Title: Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones.
Cover of a book titled "The Intuitive Eating Workbook" with a green and beige background, a pink watercolor circle with the number 10, and a small illustration of a steaming dish with hearts.
Book cover featuring a nude woman lying on a bed of purple, yellow, blue, and red flowers with a geometric background. The title reads 'The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love' by Sonya Renee Taylor.
Book cover titled "Antidiet" by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, with subtitle "Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating." The cover has an orange background with black, red, and white text, and includes small icons of a
Cover of the book titled 'Fat Talk' by Virginia Sole-Smith, with a colorful background and a prominent yellow speech bubble containing the subtitle 'Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture' and the author's name.

Crisis Resources

Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

24/7 crisis hotline if you or someone you know are experiencing mental health struggles

  • Call or Text 988

The Trevor Project

24/7 confidential support specializing in LGBTQ+ youth

  • Call 866-488-7386

  • Text START to 678678

Teen Line

Highly trained teens who will provide confidential support and resources to any teen who is struggling.

  • Call 800-852-8336 (6PM-10PM PST)

  • Text TEEN to 839863 (6PM-9PM PST)