If you follow me on instagram (or, if you’re a client of mine 🙃), you may know that I regularly share resources related to client sessions. Here are some of my favorites I’ve sent out this month.

1. Focusmate

This website was recommended to me by my ADHD coach as an alternative for our small group body doubling sessions. With Focusmate, you’re able to sign up for body doubling sessions with other humans in need of social accountability and behavior mirrors. It’s a great way to help you stay on track with what needs to get done, especially if you’re easily distracted or have difficulty completing work on your own.

2. Sensate

When I got my Sensate, my husband teased me for getting “yet another” gadget. If you fast forward a couple of weeks, he ended up getting his own. This is a device + app combo (the app has both free and paid versions) that helps decrease anxiety and stress, improve sleep, drop you quickly into a parasympathetic state, and overall relax. I use this every night before bed to decrease my heart rate and ease into sleep.

3. Episode 143 – “Healing People Pleasing (+ Baby Boundaries)” – The Openhouse Podcast with Louise Rumball

Openhouse is one of my favorite podcasts because Louise does a great job explaining and educating on a variety of topics, either by herself or with a field expert. In this episode, she goes deep into people pleasing and how to start setting “baby boundaries” with others as an alternative.

4. “How Clients’ Money Scripts Predict Financial Behaviors” – Bradley Klontz, PsyD and Sonya Britt, PhD

This is an article that accompanies the Klontz Money Script Inventory, which is a quick assessment I use to determine clients’ money scripts. It shows how each of the 4 money scripts (money avoidance, money worship, money status and money vigilance) might impact your financial situation.

5. @emonthebrain

Emily is a coach and neuroscientist who creates social media content all about the brain. She offers a lot of quick tips, as well as the science behind them, that help improve different aspects of brain functioning.

6. “Two Different Brains in Love: Conflict Resolution in Neurodiverse Relationships” by Yolanda Renteria, LPC, NCC

My husband sent me this article, and I found it incredibly helpful when it came to understanding how we show up individually in arguments. Clearly, having neurodiversity impacts how people show up in relationships, especially when you’re fighting.

7. Fear Hierarchy Ladder activity

The Fear Hierarchy is a really great exercise to do if you are wanting to desensitize yourself to something that gives you anxiety. It has you rank different “exposures” in order of least distressing (bottom of the ladder) to most distressing (top of the ladder), and challenges you to work your way through the fear. I like this resource in particular because it is almost like a handbook—lots of good education combined with self-guided activities.

8. Self-Compassion Test by Kristen Neff

This assessment is one of my go-to’s when working with clients who are particularly hard on themselves. It gives tangible data for the 3 aspects of self-compassion, as well as the “shadow side” of each aspect. It would be a great pre/post-test if you are interested in doing self-compassion work.

9. It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Dr. Ramani Durvasula

This was a book that was actually recommended to ME that I am so excited to start reading! Dr. Ramani is an expert in her field, and this book really outlines how to identify a true narcissist (as opposed to pop psychology’s “everyone is a narcissist) and how to work through narcissistic abuse. I have heard that it’s incredibly validating to people’s experiences.