Nicole Nemiroff, MA LMFT
licensed psychotherapist
Holistic Therapy Services
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Resources
including sources of my own study, my personal teachers, professionals I trust, and more
[video] DBT: Cheerleader for your Neocortex video
[video] The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
[article] Attachment: What is Anxious/Avoidant Style?
[article] Attachment: Breaking Habits
Tara Brach's Guided Meditations
[video] Kids - On Mirroring and Attunement: Single Ladies
[guided meditation] Lovingkindness by Sharon Saltzberg
[guided meditation] Self-Compassion by Krisin Neff
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Therapists:
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Santa Cruz County:
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Holistic Nutritionists:
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Health and Well-Being:
The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF offers a variety of Mindfulness-Based programs to include courses for stress reduction, childbirth & parenting.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community offers meditation instruction, classes and retreats… a great resource for beginners to meditation as well as people looking to deepen their practice in a community-based environment.
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Somatics
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Melissa Michaels https://goldenbridge.org/who-we-are/melissa-michaels/
Books & Writings
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The Ultimate Journey by Stanislav Grof
The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martín Prechtel ​
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller and Michael Lerner
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
The Odyssey by Homer
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Ithaka & any other poem written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No Self by Rodney Smith
Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie
Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay Hendricks & Kathlyn Hendricks
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Mindful Universe by Henry P. Stapp
Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
Emergent Strategy Adrienne Maree Brown
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dreambody: The Body's Role in Healing the Self - Arnold Mindell
Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma: To Have Our Hearts Broken - Taiwo Afuape
Salt by Nayyirah Waheed
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Emotions/Communication
Nonviolent communication: A language of compassion by Rosenberg
Destructive emotions: How can we overcome them? by Dalai Lama & Goleman, D.
Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter than IQ by Goleman
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Trauma
Waking the tiger: Healing trauma by Peter Levine
Healing trauma: A pioneering program for restoring the wisdom of your body by Peter Levine
Dance as a healing art: Returning to health with movement and imagery by Anna Halprin