Apps
| iHEAL App App This app (created by University of Western in Ontario) provides tailored resources for women in unsafe relationships. Available in Google Play and the Apple App Store. |
Books
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8 Keys To Building Your Best Relationships |
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| Hold Me Tight Book/Audiobook In Hold me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. |
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| Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones Book/Audiobook With deep insight into the life of Indigenous peoples, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. Includes focus on grief, LGBTQ+ experiences, relationships, etc. |
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| The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Book/Audiobook This book is famous for a reason! It helps to identify five basic languages of love to better understand and communicate better with your partner (and yourself); focuses on romantic relationships, but different volumes can be found for other types of relationships. |
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| Love Sense Book/Audiobook Love Sense covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. |
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| The Lost Art of Listening Book/Audiobook Nichols shows how to utilize this ''art by which we use empathy to reach the space across us'' to improve and repair relationships with spouses, lovers, relatives, children, friends and colleagues, and even how to boost one's own ''listenability.'' He also explains what listening isn't, explaining why people don't listen and listing obstacles to listening (especially defensiveness owing to emotional overreaction). Humor, true-life examples and simple exercises make this a practical and even entertaining self-help guide. |
Podcasts
| All My Relations Podcast This is an entire podcast hosted by two Indigenous women who bring in humour and emotion when exploring Native American relationships— relationships to land, to creatural relatives, and to one another. Scroll through the episodes to find the ones that interest you! |
Videos and Movies
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Frientimacy: The 3 Requirements of All Healthy Friendships |
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It’s not about the nail |
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| The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life - YouTube Video Video How does our early attachment influence our current relationships and views about ourselves? Find out by watching this short YouTube video. |
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| The Family Stone (2005) Movie With an elite cast, this film exemplifies and normalizes the complexity of family relationships around the holidays. |
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| Therapy in a Nutshell Videos On her YouTube channel called therapy in a nutshell, Emma McAdam, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, makes mental health resources easier to access. She take therapy skills and psychological research and condenses them down into bite-sized nuggets of help. |