Please check out the recommendations from our staff of books, documentaries, films, podcasts, articles and upcoming events that may be of interest to you.
LGBTQ and ALL
LGBTQ and ALL is an inclusive community for folks who live within the margins. Whether you identify as gay, straight, trans, non-binary, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or People of Color), fat/larger-bodied, a sex worker, neurodivergent, live with a disability, or in poverty, our community strives to uplift all its members.
If you are an ally, whether a friend, family, partner, or chosen family, you can also belong to this community. We welcome those who acknowledge their privilege and do their part to interact with the LGBTQ+ community positively and stand up for their rights.
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships. Polysecure is both a trailblazing theoretical treatise and a practical guide.
Your Mental Breakdown
Your Mental Breakdown is a psychotherapy, entertainment based podcast hosted by longtime friends and licensed therapists Doug Friedman and Meredith Levy. It’s not a self-help podcast, although you’re welcome to help yourself to whatever you get here. You get to follow a client throughout the process of therapy and listen to what happens in real sessions from day one. You also get a breakdown from the hosts after each session.
Doug and Meredith started this podcast in part to demystify and destigmatize what it is to be in therapy – and to be a therapist. They’re giving you a glimpse of how therapists sound outside the office… and also what it sounds like inside the office in real sessions with a real client. You’ll get to join the process as it’s happening in real time - because therapy doesn’t happen in soundbites, it happens in real life.
After each client session, you’ll hear Doug and Meredith break it down so you can better understand what’s going on, why it’s going on, what they’re thinking, and how maybe you can apply the stuff they talk about to your own life.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents
Clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents.
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
A practical relationship book that promises to help you find and keep love by understanding the science of adult attachment Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller help you understand the three attachment styles, identify your own and recognise the styles of others so that you can find compatible partners or improve your existing relationship. Packed with fascinating psychology and case studies from successful - and unsuccessful - couples you can discover how to avoid the Anxious-Avoidant trap, why Secures can partner any type and how to love the Secure way. Attached is your road map to the perfect match and lasting love
Love on The Spectrum
An Australian reality show that follows seven young adults on the autism spectrum dive headfirst into the dating pool, exploring the unpredictable world of love and relationships.
Unlocking Us
Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl
The ABC's of LGBT+
The ABCs of LGBT+ is a #1 Bestselling LGBT book and is essential reading for questioning teens, teachers or parents looking for advice, or anyone who wants to learn how to talk about gender identity and sexual identity. In The ABCs of LGBT+, Ash Mardell, a beloved blogger and YouTube star, answers many of your questions about: lgbt and lgbt+, gender identity, sexual identity, teens in a binary world, the LGBT family, and more!
The Gay BCs of LGBT+: An Accompaniment to the ABCs of LGBT+
In The Gay BCs of LGBT+, Ash Mardell, offers new insight and information with this accompaniment to the ABCs of LGBT+