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ADHD For Smart Ass Women: How to fall in love with your neurodivergent brain
A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home: Housekeeping Hacks You Can't Live Without
Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!
The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Adulting with ADHD
How to Keep House While Drowning
We’re all Neurodiverse
Square Me, Round World
Diverse Minds
Quiet Your Mind And Get Sleep
Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
Your Brain’s Not Broken
Workbook: Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills
Neurodivergent Skills Workbook for Autism and ADHD
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Heart of Trauma
EMDR for Complex Trauma
Dissociation Made Simple
When There Are No Words
Looking Through the Eyes
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Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing
The World Wisdom Bible: A New Testament for a Global Spirituality
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
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Podcasts
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I Have ADHD
CADDAC: Different Not Less w/Chloe Hayden
How to ADHD Jessica McCabe
Let’s Talk About ADHD
What It’s Like to Have ADHD by ADHD Voices
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Atheism & Philosophy
Ex-Mormon
Ex-Evangelical
Martyr She Wrote
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Apps
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Executive Functioning/Organization
Sweepy - Home Cleaning
Dental Coach - Maintain healthy dental hygiene
Tick Tick - time blocking, habit tracker, planner, pomodoro & many more
Life Up Pro - RPG for tasks, habits, executive functioning
GoblinTools: Creates tiny, manageable steps from overwhelming tasks. Perfect for breaking down executive function barriers
Tiimo - Visual planning with routines, timers & gentle reminders. Highly customizable for neurodivergent needs (sensory profiles, energy levels)
Brili Routines - Creates visual, step-by-step routines (morning, bedtime, homework) with timers. Reduces overwhelm and guides focus sequentially
Tody - Clever cleaning/organization app. Visualizes tasks, schedules them, and gamifies completion. Makes overwhelming chores manageable
Self Care
Finch - digital pet for self care, mindfulness, goal setting & routines with a nurturing companion. Great for motivation & emotional regulation
Focus
Forest - pomodoro focus app that also helps with environment IRL
Focus Keeper - Simple, clean Pomodoro timer. Reduces overwhelm by chunking work into focused intervals.
Sensory Wellbing - Helps identify sensory triggers/preferences and create personalized coping strategies. Vital for Autism & sensory processing
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Antar - great for parts work, processing thoughts and emotions
Tapping Solutions - great for navigating stress, overwhelm, triggers
PTSD Coach - Developed by the VA & NCPTSD. Offers education, symptom tracking, coping tools (grounding, breathing), and support resources. Evidence-based core.
Calm Harm, Manage Self Harm - Provides immediate, distraction-based activities categorized by urge type (Express, Comfort, Distract, etc.) to manage distress & self-harm urges
Insight Timer - Massive free library of guided meditations. Search for "trauma-sensitive," "grounding," "sleep for PTSD," "self-compassion." Includes timers and stats
CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).
Bearable - Advanced symptom & mood tracker. Excellent for identifying complex triggers (sensory, social, physiological) and patterns over time in CPTSD.
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CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).
Insight Timer - Find secular mindfulness, deconstruction support groups (audio), and meditations focused on self-trust, releasing guilt, and rebuilding identity
Reckoning - Specifically designed for religious trauma. Offers journaling prompts, community connection (safely moderated), and resources focused on deconstruction
Secular Therapy Project - Not a traditional app, but vital. Connects individuals with licensed therapists who explicitly do not incorporate religion into therapy.
Reclamation Collective - Often has app-like resources or community hubs. Focuses on healing from high-control religion, spiritual abuse, and cults
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Gottman Card Decks - Offers decks for Love Maps, Open-Ended Questions, Salsa (light conflict), Expressing Needs.
Paired - Daily questions, quizzes, and exercises designed by relationship experts to improve communication, intimacy, and understanding. Focuses on connection
Lasting - Marriage counseling app. Structured programs on communication, conflict, connection, and more. Based on research, includes audio sessions & exercises
Agreeify - Simplifies creating shared agreements and chore charts. Reduces conflict about household tasks and responsibilities. Great for fairness perception.
Sweepy - Home Cleaning organization
Coral - Conflict resolution guide. Helps structure difficult conversations using step-by-step prompts for "I" statements, active listening, and finding solutions
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Gottman Card Decks - Offers decks for Love Maps, Open-Ended Questions, Salsa (light conflict), Expressing Needs.
Cozi Family Organizer - Shared calendar, shopping lists, to-dos, and chore assignments. Reduces logistical stress and miscommunication. Essential for busy families
Circle of Security - Based on the COS model. Offers video modules and resources to help caregivers understand attachment needs and respond sensitively
Agreeify - Simplifies creating shared agreements and chore charts. Reduces conflict about household tasks and responsibilities. Great for fairness perception.
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Liberate - Meditation app by and for the Black community. Focuses on themes of healing, resilience, rest, and identity in the face of racism and trauma
The Safe Place - Mini-app focused on mental health education and support within the Black community. Addresses stigma and provides culturally relevant resources
Unpacking - Focuses on anti-racism education, understanding privilege, bias, and allyship through daily reflections and actions.
Be Present - Combines mindfulness with social justice awareness. Offers meditations and reflections on topics like privilege, allyship, resilience, and community care
HearWe - Connects people with affinity groups and supportive communities based on identity (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, etc.). Facilitates finding shared experiences and support
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Voice Recorder app - Any will do. Great for audio journaling
Baseline - easy and accessible journaling app
Tapping Solutions - great for navigating stress, overwhelm, triggers
How We Feel - social mood tracker to track your mood with friends
CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).
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Content Creators
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I Have ADHD
CADDAC: Different Not Less w/Chloe Hayden
How to ADHD Jessica McCabe
Let’s Talk About ADHD
What It’s Like to Have ADHD by ADHD Voices
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Atheism & Philosophy
Ex-Mormon
Ex-Evangelical
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