Working on ourself is never as simple as doing one kind of therapy, practice, or exercise. We are complex individuals and our support system must also be just as complex. Working with as many parts of our bodies, minds, feelings, and spirits is vital to our growth, expansion, development, and satisfaction.
We have listed (and will continue to add) a few resources you may find highly useful in your journey to a better and better you. Please engage them with your best wisdom as we do not guarantee that every resource is appropriate for every person*. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. If you have a suggestion for a resource you think would be a great addition to this list, use the form at the bottom of this page to submit it now.
- Emotional Vocabulary Chart
Feelings chart to help boost your emotional competence
- The Root Acupuncture
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine that integrates mind, body, spirit.
- Strcutured Journal Practice
This daily strcutured journal practice will help you develop focus, discipline, contentment, and increase your productivity.
- Self-Care Is Not An Indulgence. It’s A Discipline.
Too often we think of honoring our needs and self-care as "something I'll get to". This explores how making caring for yourself a priority is absolutely essential.
- Kahlil Gibran: On Joy & Sorrow
One of the best reflections on the intersection of empowered grief, loss, and self-acceptance.
- Neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy
4 rituals you can practice regularly that help your brain wire around consistent lasting happiness
- Vagus Nerve – toning practices
This article outlines what the vagus nerve is, some of its role in the body, and most importantly, what you can do to build its tone and increase your mental health
- Breath Training for calming the body
A great summary overview of some specific breathing exercises to help you feel more at home and safer in your body
- Mapping how the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) stores trauma in the body
This 45-min video helps to undertand how trauma is stored in the body and how it gets released
- Your traumatized nervous system
A brief video that explains what happens to a person's nervous system with trauma or chronic childhood stress
- Trauma Recovery: Riding an anxiety wave
A demonstration of a client riding an anxiety wave in containment
- Trauma Recovery: Completing a defensive response
A demonstration of the body completing a defense response to a threatening event
- Trauma Recovery: State 4 (dissociation)
A demonstration of someone allowing their body to experience fully dissociation in response to traumatic memory
- Kahlil Gibran: On Joy & Sorrow
One of the best reflections on the intersection of empowered grief, loss, and self-acceptance.
- rē•thinking Duality: We All Possess Both The Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine
A vital understanding presented here regarding the need for all people, regardless of gender or sex, to develop and integrate BOTH the feeminine and masculine energies of the archetypes into themselves.
- Union of Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine
A short blog post that can inspire a great deal of exploration into the fundamental relationship between Divine Masculine and Feminine
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
One of the best books on outlining and categorizing both the immature and mature forms of the masculine archetypes (Moore, Robert & Gillette, Douglas)
- Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited – A Study in Opposites
A great introduction to the Feminine archetypes, based on the work of Toni Wolff (Molton, Mary Dian & Sikes, Lucy Ann)
- The Four Archetypes of the Mature Masculine: Introduction
An online summary of distilled ideas about the masculine archetypes
- Defining the Feminine Archetypes
A google search page for exploring more about the feminine archetypes. Note that there may be many version or descriptions of how to organize the Feminine
- Archetypes: The Ultimate Guide (+ How to Work With Them)
A wonderful primer into the different systems of defining and working with archetypes
- How to Expand Your Consciousness Using Archetypes
- The Root Acupuncture
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine that integrates mind, body, spirit.
- Life Coach Path
Find out more about life coaching and other coaches
- Your traumatized nervous system
A brief video that explains what happens to a person's nervous system with trauma or chronic childhood stress
*You are welcome to use these resources for your own benefit and at your own risk. Connexus Services, LLC assumes no responsibility or liability for the efficacy of these resources or the potential harm that may result from their use.
