Resources For You
While I have undergone crisis intervention training, I am not a licensed counselor. Some submissions may require professional expertise beyond my scope or specialized support across different industries. To ensure you have access to the most effective resources, I have curated a dedicated resource page. Below, you’ll find trusted organizations, professionals, and platforms—many of which I have personally used, studied, worked with, extensively researched, or received strong recommendations for.
Additionally, I’ve included creators who produce insightful, accessible digital content on topics ranging from mental health and personal growth to career development and well-being. These individuals are making vital conversations more approachable and helping to bridge gaps in traditional support systems.
Each resource listed has a proven track record of making a meaningful impact and enhancing quality of life in various ways. This list is diverse and continually evolving.I encourage you to check back regularly for new additions. If you have a resource or creator you’d like to recommend, or if you have feedback on the existing ones, please feel free to submit it through the form at the bottom of the page.
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Crisis Intervention Resources
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 mental health support for those in crisis. Text 741741 from anywhere in the US to text with a trained Crisis Counselor. With over 4 million conversations to date, they're growing quickly, but so is the need.
Their Crisis Counselors are dedicated, trained, supervised volunteers from around the United States. After a rigorous multi-stage application process, background check, and training program, each commits to volunteering 4 hours a week until 200 hours are met. Supervisors (staff who all have Master’s degrees in a relevant field, or commensurate crisis intervention experience) oversee the Crisis Counselors.
Nothing will appear on your bill if your cell phone plan is with AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, or Verizon. If your plan is with another carrier, our short code, 741741, will appear on your billing statement.
Teen Line
Teen Line is a non-profit teen help hotline based out of the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. It's completely confidential.
The Teen Line volunteers who answer the calls, emails and texts are Southern California teenagers who have received specialized training. They won’t judge you or give advice – their job is to listen to your feelings and help you to clarify your concerns, define the options available to you, and help you make positive decisions. Issues that teenagers are dealing with include abuse, depression, divorce, bullying, anxiety, gangs, gender identity, homelessness, pregnancy, relationships, sexuality, violence, substance abuse, self harm, and suicide. If you have a problem or just want to talk with another teen who understands...
Call 800-852-8336 Toll-Free Nationwide or TEXT TEEN to 839863
The line is open from 6pm to 10pm PST
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
Crisis Interventions
Trevor Lifeline—The only national 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ young people under 25, available at 1-866-488-7386.
TrevorChat—A free, confidential, secure instant messaging service for LGBTQ youth that provides live help from trained volunteer counselors, open daily.
TrevorText—A free, confidential, secure service in which LGBTQ young people can text a trained Trevor counselor for support and crisis intervention, available daily by texting START to 678-678.
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide. It is America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care. Their skilled health care professionals are dedicated to offering all people high-quality, affordable medical care. One in five American women has chosen Planned Parenthood for health care at least once in her life.
The heart of Planned Parenthood is in the local community. Their 49 unique, locally governed affiliates nationwide operate more than 600 health centers, which reflect the diverse needs of their communities.
These health centers provide a wide range of safe, reliable health care — and the majority is preventive care, which helps prevent unintended pregnancies through contraception, reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections through testing and treatment, and screen for cervical and other cancers. Caring physicians, nurse practitioners, and other staff take time to talk with clients, encouraging them to ask questions in an environment that millions have grown to trust.
You can learn more and find your local clinic on their website.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
Calls to the Lifeline are routed to their closest center based on area code, with the goal of connecting callers to counselors in their own state. Local counselors at crisis centers are familiar with community mental health resources, and can therefore provide referrals to local services.
People call to talk about lots of things: substance abuse, economic worries, relationships, sexual identity, getting over abuse, depression, mental and physical illness, and loneliness, to name a few.
CALL 1-800-273-8255
Youth Yellow Pages
The Youth Yellow Pages is a teen resource guide provided by TEENLINE. This is an App that can help you become aware of the resources in Southern California that can offer tons of information and services you need. Almost all of the agencies listed guarantee your confidentiality when you call them. This means that they will not tell other people what you talk about. If you want to make sure that the agency will keep your conversation private, simply ask them when you first call, “Will this conversation be confidential?”
Issues teens may be facing are organized by categories. Under each listing you will find a way to contact them, including their number (if available.)
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Your safety always comes first.
Every contact to The Hotline is personal. Some people who reach out to them to identify as survivors of abuse, some as concerned friends or family members, some as abusive partners seeking to change themselves. While every contact is unique, their advocates are guided by The Hotline’s Consent and Ethics policy and will emphasize several key points throughout your conversation.
Their services are always free and available 24/7.
They also provide local resources and guide you to legal help.
CALL 1-800-799-7233
Or chat with them on thier site.
The Butterfly Project
The butterfly project has been created for people who self-harm and feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do so.
PART ONE - DRAWING
The idea is simple. You simply draw a butterfly on the place(s) of self-harm and if the butterfly fades without self-harming, it means that the butterfly lived and has flown away, giving you a sense of achievement. Whereas if you do self-harm while the butterfly is still visible; you have to wash it off. If that does happen, you can start again by drawing a new one on.
Another idea is to write the names of your friends and family, so that when you feel the need to self injure, you are reminded that you are important and loved by your friends and family. Writing song lyrics or quotes can also be useful.
PART TWO - THE RECOVERY BRACELET
Go to a craft store and buy supplies to make beads for bracelets and/or necklaces. Then, buy butterfly charms (or any charm form/symbol you like) to eventually use as a charm to be added to the bracelet/necklace.
This is how it works: First, make a braclet or necklace out of the beads. For every week that you have not hurt yourself, you have saved the life of the butterfly. For every butterfly you save, you should add a butterfly charm to the beaded braclet/necklace. That way, you can tell how many weeks you have stopped hurting yourself by how many butterflies that are on your beaded bracelet. {Each Butterfly=1 week of not cutting.}
You will always be reminded of your growth and successes every time you glance at your wrist and see all the butterflies you have saved
Tools
Insight Timer
#1 App for Sleep, Anxiety, & Stress
Offers 70,000 free guided meditations
Explore a wide range of origins, practices, benefits, sciences, concepts, visualizations, and more. They also offer livestreams, classes, and so many resources to help with your well-being. There's literally something for everyone, and they all range in length.
Headspace
Headspace is an app that teaches you how to meditate. Meditation has been shown to help people stress less, focus more and sleep better. Headspace is meditation made simple, teaching you life-changing mindfulness skills in just a few minutes a day. Their site offers guided meditations, animations, articles and videos.
Headspace has one mission: to improve the health and happiness of the world. And with millions of users in more than 190 countries, they’re well on our way.
You can try Headspace for yourself and learn the essentials of meditation and mindfulness with their free Basics course. If you enjoy it, then you can subscribe. Once you do, you’ll have bite-sized minis for when you’re short on time, exercises to add extra mindfulness to your day, and hundreds of meditations on everything from stress to sleep.
Do! -Simple To Do List
Free, easy, accessible app you can add as a Widget on your home page. Keep you motivated and boosts productivity by encouraging you to keep track of daily/weekly to-do lists and efficiently cross off what you've completed. Extremely helpful for those with ADD/ADHD or those struggling with organizational functioning. Very minimalist look so it's aesthetically pleasing on your home page.
Daily Planner- Habit Tracker
Daily Planner is a habit tracker app which lets you really master your life. It helps you think deeper, stay positive, focused and enhance your productivity every day at Daily Planner. You can set personal goals and track progress by also using it as a weekly or monthly planner.
Daily Planner is ideal for you if you:
Feeling energetic yet not sure about the priority?
Cannot focus more than 10mins, suffer from ADHD?
Take your notebook everywhere with you to keep habits tracked?
Awful handwriting make the monthly summary hard to recognize?
Daily Planner is not only a tracker, it’s an attitude, a commitment, a planner and achiever. Join Daily Planner now and receive a marvelous self. Who knows the potential?
Empathy
When your world has been turned upside down, Empathy helps you get back up on your feet.At Empathy, they believe that loss should be less of a burden for every family. It should be less confusing, inefficient, expensive, and emotionally draining. That’s why they built Empathy – to meet families where they are, put the control back in their hands, and give them practical tools to navigate the hardest time in their lives. As founders with families of their own – and their own histories of loss – they consider it their responsibility and their privilege to help anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one, to save them time, money, and emotional pain.
Tools on the App
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Funeral planning: Step-by-step guidance so that every moving part falls into place.
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Claiming benefits: Find out about eligibility, and get help getting the payouts you deserve.
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Navigating probate: Understand the probate process –- and if you can avoid it.
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Dealing with property: Help as you organize and make decisions about belongings.
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Paying debts: Get all the info on bills, and how to pay only the ones you need to.
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Processing grief: Comfort and support for difficult days and challenging emotions.
We're Not Really Strangers
Card Game to Strengthen and Deepen Relationships (even w/oneself). It was created with the intention of empowering meaningful connection with others. Expansion packs have been made to help one reflect on dating, break-ups, and one's connection to themself.
It's incredible to play with old friends or new friends or even by yourself. A lot of discoveries can be made, and don't be afraid of getting vulnerable.
People to Follow
Melissa Wood Health
Melissa is here to guide you to a place of loving and accepting yourself, exactly as you are. She believes acceptance is where true transformation begins. She created her own method of movement through listening to what felt good in her body. She found the gentler she was on her body, the better she felt overall with a level of ease she had never experienced before both physically and mentally. The MWH Method, which is a series of precise low impact movements that she started seeing beautiful long, lean lines throughout her entire body. She believes the beauty of her method is that it’s not just about building a body you desire…it’s about building a better, stronger relationship with yourself.
Her goal in this work is to share that you too can live your life with ease and find true inner peace with yourself. It’s not just about fitting into a certain size or seeing that ideal number on the scale. Letting go of limiting beliefs and being kinder to yourself in this way is where lasting change takes place.
The first step is creating a practice that works for you. That can look like a 10-minute daily meditation and/or 20 minutes of regular movement. She is living proof that when you dedicate time to becoming the best version of yourself, you’ll experience lasting shifts beyond anything you could have ever imagined. Her job isn’t to transform you. It’s to give you tools and guide you to a place so that you can transform yourself.
Dr. Joe Dispenza
As a researcher, lecturer, author, and corporate consultant, his interest lies in demystifying the mystical so that people have all the tools within their reach to make measurable changes in their lives.
Dr Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is a Doctor of Chiropractic. His post graduate training includes the fields of neuroscience and neuroplasticity, quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, epigenetics, mind-body medicine, and brain/heart coherence.
He's written many books and given many lectures on tangible tools and the application of his studies to teach others how to change their brain, align the mind/body connection, and create both physical and mental changes in one's body and environment.
The Loveland Foundation
Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Their resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing.
The Loveland Foundation was established in 2018 by Rachel Cargle in response to her widely successful birthday wish fundraiser, Therapy for Black Women and Girls. Her enthusiastic social media community raised over $250,000, which made it possible for Black women and girls nationally to receive therapy support. Black women and girls deserve access to healing, and that healing will impact generations.
The Loveland Foundation is the official continuation of this effort to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls. Through fellowships, residency programs, listening tours, and more, ultimately they hope to contribute to both the empowerment and the liberation of the communities they serve.
Skin By Sarah Ford
8 years as a Medical Esthetician and working as a laser tech, acne and melanin expert. Her services are not overpriced for the in-depth customized care and treatment you're getting. She's absolutely magical with clearing hormonal cystic acne flare ups and getting rid of acne scars + correcting texture + hyperpigmentation.
After going to dermatologists for over 5 years, and going on almost every topical and oral medication out there to get rid of my acne, the only person who was able to clear up my hormonal cysts and get my scarring/texture to heal is Sarah. She doesn’t push expensive products on you, and really advocates for the less is more approach so you don’t walk out spending a lot of money on a skin care regimen. She’s an absolute angel from above and works really well with sensitive skin. Definitely check out her Instagram to see how she’s transformed other’s skin care journeys. The proof is all there.
Cameron Oaks Rogers & Conversations with Cam
Founder and Host of the Conversations with Cam podcast, Cameron Rogers (@cameronoaksrogers), utilizes her unfiltered voice and humor to carve out a safe space on the internet for mothers. Standing proud as a mental health advocate, community curator, and mother, Cameron’s audience resonates with her realistic and authentic approach to life’s trials and tribulations.
Cameron is dedicated to dismantling the stigma surrounding mental health, and leverages her platforms to foster an open dialogue within her close-knit community about real-life issues. Her commitment extends to providing impactful resources and empowering mothers to embrace a life lived simply and imperfectly. Embracing the challenges of new motherhood, Cameron passionately sheds light on her experiences with pregnancy, postpartum depression, and the often unspoken or overlooked trials and tribulations of navigating the journey of motherhood.
@BlackFemaleTherapists
They have two missions: (1) to create a safe space to talk about mental health and (2) promote black female therapists.
Amber, a Licensed Professional Counselor, founded BFT after getting into the field of mental health and experiencing a hard time seeking out her own therapist that was the special fit. She didn’t want other women to go through the struggle she did to find a Black or Brown therapist; thus, out came The Black Female Therapist.
BFT essentially works in a two-handed way: It’s a directory for Black or Brown therapists to market themselves and their work, and in turn it gives women an abundance of resources to seek out new therapists and find one that is the best fit for them based on where they live. The link below will take you to their site, but you should also check out their Instagram @blackfemaletherapists to gain some tips on better mental health.
@BlackGirlMagik
Coming in 2021. Through weaving spirituality and mental health, they are building an entirely new approach to online wellness and education to help Black women grow in community. Their vision is to evoke healing for Black women globally that restores balance in their ancestral dna, unlocks a real sense of healing and activates living in alignment with their destiny. Black Girl Magik is returning to ancient Black healing modalities and traditions to nurture the well-being and existence of Black women.
In the meantime, check out their Instagram @blackgirlmagik
Content to Check Out
Heal Documentary
Director Kelly Noonan's documentary takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions have a huge impact on our health and ability to heal.
The latest science reveals that we are not victims of unchangeable genes, nor should we buy into a scary prognosis. The fact is we have more control over our health and life than we have been taught to believe. This film will empower you with a new understanding of the miraculous nature of the human body and the extraordinary healer within us all.
HEAL not only taps into the brilliant mind's of leading scientists and spiritual teachers, but follows three people on actual high stakes healing journeys. Healing can be extremely complex and deeply personal, but it can also happen spontaneously in a moment. Through these inspiring and emotional stories we find out what works, what doesn't, and why. Featuring Dr. Deepak Chopra, Anita Moorjani, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Michael Beckwith, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Anthony William ' Medical Medium', Dr. Bernie Siegel, Gregg Braden, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dr. David Hamilton, Dr. Kelly Brogan, Rob Wergin, Dr. Kelly Turner, Peter Chrone, Dr Darren Weissman, and Dr Jeffrey Thompson.
The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer was an internationally renowned author and speaker in the fields of self-development and spiritual growth. Over the four decades of his career, he wrote more than 40 books, including 21 New York Times bestsellers. He created many audio and video programs, and appeared on thousands of television and radio shows.
Dyer has another term for the concept behind the Law of Attraction. He calls it the Power of Intention. His philosophy is pure and simple, “The law of attraction is this: You don’t attract what you want. You attract what you are.”
This book explores intention—not as something you do—but as an energy you’re a part of. We’re all intended here through the invisible power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as a field of energy that you can access to begin co-creating your life with the power of intention.
Part I deals with the principles of intention, offering true stories and examples showing how to make the connection. Dr. Dyer identifies the attributes of the all-creating universal mind of intention as creative, kind, loving, beautiful, expanding, endlessly abundant, and receptive, explaining the importance of emulating this source of creativity. In Part II, Dr. Dyer offers an intention guide with specific ways to apply the co-creating principles in daily life. Part III is an exhilarating description of Dr. Dyer’s vision of an individual connected at all times to the universal mind of intention.
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