Resources

Resources for Asian People

Asian Mental Health Collective

Asian American Feminist Collective

Vanessa Wants To Know: Season 1 #AsianExcellence

Immigrant and Refugee Experiences

Foreign Bodies is a newsletter and online community centering immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness through storytelling. It was born from founder Fiza Pirani’s reporting fellowship with The Carter Center Mental Health Program. Main monthly issues are free for all to read, feature a personal essay on a particular immigrant experience, followed by research on its connection to mental health and well-being.

Immigrant Strong features writing by immigrants and children of immigrants, or others who write about immigrant and multicultural life—the struggles, the triumphs, the quirks.

Anti-Racism

• The Traumatic Impact of Racism and Discrimination on Young People and How to Talk About It, American Academy of Pediatrics

• Treaty 7 Indigenous Ally Toolkit, Calgary Foundation

• Raising Little Allies-To-Be E-Book, Wander and Wonder Studio

Books

• Men’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

• When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Dr. Gabor Mate

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk

• Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair, Miriam Greenspan
  
  

Books by People of Colour

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

• Everyone’s a Alien When Ur a Aliebn Too, Jomny Sun

• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor

Personal Essays that I Love

• The Hungry Heart, Naz Riahi

• Seeing My Body With Fresh Eyes, Ashley Ford

• Happiness Is Other People, Ruth Whippman

• The Dark Night of the Soul, Dr. Jordana Jacobs

• I’m not always attached to living, but hear me out, Fiza Pirani

• How I Lost My Legs and Gained... You Want Me to Say Something Inspiring Here, Sophie Helf

• The Healing Force Within, Dr. Gabor Mate

• 6 Things That Happened When I Quit Instagram For A Year, Sophie Balisky

• A Slight Movement of Earth, P. Kim Bui

• ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy, Arthur C. Brooks

• Dating: We’re Doing it Wrong, Dr. Jordana Jacobs

• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person, Alain de Botton

• How to Make Friends In Adulthood, Sophie Balisky
  

Videos

• The Power of Vulnerability, Brene Brown

• The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion, Kristin Neff

• The Price of Shame, Monica Lewinsky

• Does School Kill Creativity? Sir Ken Robinson

• Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are, Amy Cuddy

• Brene Brown on Empathy vs. Sympathy

• The Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love, Katie Hood

• Nora McInerny: We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it

• Jonny Sun: You are not alone in your loneliness

• Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality

On Addiction

• Catherine Choi: Everyone Has A Story

• Florence Welch On Addiction, Eating Disorder Recovery, And Finding True Happiness In Her 30s

• What Being Sober Has Meant To Me, Brene Brown

• Everything You Know About Addiction Is Wrong, Johann Hari

• In Her Words: Emily Note on Addiction and Family