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A sample mailer from dopamine mail.

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Dopamine Mail: A Mail Club to get Joy in your Mailbox

December 12, 2024December 13, 2024

About Therapy

Protected: Patron Exclusive Zine: “Now What: A Tiny Guide to Integration”

April 10, 2024April 10, 2024

Image is an illustration of an origami paper airplane on a blue background with stars and has text that reads, "Trauma impacts survivors in the past, present, and future." Illustration created by Lindsay Braman.

Trauma

Trauma Origami: How Trauma Impacts Our Sense of Time

October 26, 2023January 23, 2024

illustrated diagram of the brain

Worksheets

Learning About the Brain: A Brain Worksheet PDF Resource

October 19, 2023January 21, 2025

complex post traumatic stress disorder symptom wheel

Resources for Mental Health Professionals

The C-PTSD Symptom Wheel

October 5, 2023January 20, 2024

This is an image of a flowchart titled “Anxiety - Choose Your Own Adventure.” The flowchart is hand-drawn and has a yellow background. The flowchart has multiple decision points and paths, with each decision point represented by a speech bubble. The flowchart starts with a white box that has a yellow striped border and reads, “Start Here.” This is pointing to a box that says, “Uh-Oh! Anxiety Increases.” If you ignore the increase, you can choose to ignore by disassociating or neglecting it, but you’ll end up at the same point: “You’re still anxious but have secondary problems,” and you’ll be sent back to the start. If you decide to pay attention to the increased anxiety, you get to a flowchart point that says, “Good call! How?” If you choose to be mean instead of kind, you may have a shame spiral or self-contempt, making you feel worse and spending you back to the start. If you choose to be kind, you can choose to seek care and connection/movement/journaling, and it may help lead to self-care, or you can choose self-care directly. Will it be with others or solo? If solo, you can pet a dog, garden, or make art. If you do it with someone, you can talk, move together, or hug. Either way, your anxiety may improve! The flowchart is credited to @lindsaybraman.

Worksheets

Anxiety Worksheet: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

August 30, 2023January 18, 2024

black and gray pencil scribbles to visualize anxiety drawing

Psychology Art

Anxiety Drawing: Visual Insights into the Anxious Mind

August 28, 2023August 29, 2023

infographic highlighting 8 ways to cope when your therapist goes on vacation.

Resources for Mental Health Professionals

7 Ways to Cope When Your Therapist Is On Vacation

July 26, 2023February 5, 2024

A letterboard states: Understanding trauma triggers.

Psychology Art

Trauma Triggers: What Are They?

July 21, 2021January 29, 2024

Claspened hands in the foreground with a second pair of clasped hands in a blurred background.

About Therapy

How to Find a Therapist in a Small Town or Rural Area

June 1, 2021January 22, 2024

The lower bodies of people sitting in a group.

Trauma

PTSD & Trauma Recovery Resources

May 8, 2021January 13, 2022

Resources for Understanding and Managing Stress

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Resources for Understanding & Managing Stress

April 1, 2021January 13, 2022

Desire is Not pathology: the radical self-compassion of normalizing physical and emotional needs.

HAES | Mindfulness | Other | Relationships

Desire is Not Pathology: Affirming Neediness via Radical Self-Compassion

February 24, 2021January 19, 2024

Demonstrating Trustworthiness Builds Bridges that Self-Advertisement Cannot.

Relationships | Parenting

Demonstrating Trustworthiness Builds Bridges that Self-Advertisement Cannot

January 12, 2020January 19, 2024

Social Media Budget

Mindfulness | Other | Parenting

All Social Media Has a Cost, Empowered Social Media Use Sets a Budget

December 21, 2019January 18, 2024

Coping with self-harm urges.

Other | Psychology Art

Urge Surfing, Alternatives, and Harm Reduction

December 6, 2019January 12, 2022

Whether self-imposed (like dieting or working your way into vocational burnout) or external (like housing instability, job loss, or not getting core emotional needs met), scarcity changes how we think and make decisions. Interestingly, researchers note that brains in scarcity often make need-based decisions that backfire because brains in scarcity can't focus and value long term outcomes over immediate relief.

Burnout

How Scarcity Impacts Our Brain, Relationships, & Mental Health

November 13, 2019January 22, 2024