Links & Resources

Tools

• VIA Character Strengths Survey

Books for Information and Inspiration

• Between Two Kingdoms:  A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad.  Inspiration for anyone coping with the challenges and uncertainty of chronic and/or life-threatening illness.  

• Changing to Thrive by James O. Prochaska, PhD and Janice M. Prochaska, PhD.  This book clearly details the stages we cycle through in the change process.  

• Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being by Yuria Celidwen, PhD.  Yuria Celidwen brilliantly and beautifully bridges Western and Indigenous ways of knowing.  The book includes practices for expanding our knowledge of ourselves and our connection to the rest of the world.  My concept of self and interconnectedness to all life has grown immeasurably from reading this book.

• Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain by Sandra LeFort, MN, PhD, Kate Lorig, DrPH, et al.

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristen Neff, Ph.D.

• Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty and Chaos by Emma Seppälä, Ph.D.

• The Gift of Aging by Marcy Cottrell Houle, MS and Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH, MACP

• The Pain Management Workbook by Rachel Zoffness, MS, PhD.

• The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy edited by James Crews.  Gifted to me by my daughter, this book is a treasure.  The poems within spark love and joy and resonate in the human heart.  

• The World Comes To You by Michael Stone.  Gifted to me by a dear friend.  Wisdom on every page.  

• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD.  

Web-based Resources

• greatergood.berkeley.edu for "science based insights for a meaningful life".  Newsletter, online magazine, keys to wellbeing and more are available here. (Instagram @greatergoodmag )

• self-compassion.org for information on how to practice self-compassion. (Instagram @neffselfcompassion)