Resources

Mental Health Resources

  • Tierra Nueva Counseling Center 505-471-8575 (free counseling)

    PMS Counseling Center 855-223-7111

    Family Wellness Center 855-416-4104

    Southwest CARE Center 505-955-9454

    Mountain Center 505-983-6158 (outdoor mental health program)

    Las Cumbres 505-955-0410 (early childhood)

    New Vistas (disability support)

    Gerard’s House 505-424-1800 (grief)

  • New Mexico Crisis Line 855-662-7474

    New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project 505-820-1066

    Peer to Peer Warm Line 855-466-7100

    Statewide Crisis Line 866-435-7166

    UNM Psychiatric Center 505-272-2800

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255

    The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    Call or Text 988 for mental health emergencies

    Crisis Text Line- text START to 741741

    Text Trevor to 202-304-1200 for LGBT support

    Trans Lifeline 877-565-8860

    Domestic Violence Hotline 800-799-7233

    Veterans Crisis Line 800-273-8255

 

Recommended Ted Talks

 
Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. Learn about the essential nature of vulnerability for connection.

Join Hilary and Dana, the therapist dietitian team that created a body trust approach to healing from the effects of living in a weight obsessed world, as they introduce a new conversation on weight and well-being. Learn about how diets have been scientifically proven to NOT WORK!

In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner. But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our need for security and for surprise. So how do you sustain desire? With wit and eloquence, Perel explores the mystery of erotic intelligence.

Visionary artist Alex Grey began his career as a medical illustrator at Harvard Medical School, but is best known for paintings that present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution.

“Imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with out deepest self.”

— Pat Allen, Art is a Way of Knowing

“The medicine of art gives us the opportunity to take private and small actions which send out ripples of consciousness affecting others. Art replaces apathy and hopelessness with focused action within the realm of the individual imagination and its visions of the world.”

— Shaun McNiff, Art as Medicine

Book Recommendations

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (Trauma)

  • Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Interpersonal Neurobiology)

  • Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin (Attachment Theory)

  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel (Intimacy & Relationships)

  • Eastern Body Western Mind by Andrea Judith (Energy Psychology)

  • Art is a Way of Knowing by Pat Allen (Transpersonal)

  • Art as Medicine by Shaun McNiff (Archetypal)

  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Shamanic)

  • It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn (Intergenerational Trauma)

  • The Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura Davis (Childhood Sexual Abuse)

  • The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor (Body Positivity)

  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (Psychedelics & Mental Health)

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