Yoga — Down Dog Yoga App or free Yoga with Adriene videos on YouTube or on Amazon Prime
Guided Meditations
- Tara Brach
- UCLA Mindful Meditations
- Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
- Wellbeing activities on the Wofford Resilience Project Toolkit
Short Readings
- Omid Safi’s On Being post on the Disease of Being Busy
- What is self-compassion
- What self-compassion is not
- self-compassion vs self-esteem
- NYT Times Article on Why You Should Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
Books
Healing
Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection
Bessel Van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score
Susan David’s Emotional Agility. Penguin. New York, NY. 2016.
Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron’s How to Meditate.
Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society
B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Life
(Female) Empowerment
Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski’s Burnout: the Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Jen Sincero’s You are a Badass
Tara Mohr’s Playing Big
Education
Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Holly Roger’s The Mindful Twenty-Something
Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life
Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals
Workbooks
Rolf Gates’ Meditations on Intention and Being
Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook
Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal
Sharon Salzberg’s Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation