Organizations We Admire

  Mediation Teachers and Networks

Common Ground Meditation Center, https://commongroundmeditation.org/.

Insight Meditation Society https://www.dharma.org/

Dharma Seed, https://dharmaseed.org/.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com/

Addiction Recovery Networks

Refuge Recovery, https://refugerecovery.org/.

Buddhist Recovery Network, https://www.buddhistrecovery.org/

Codependents Anonymous www.coda.org

Emotions Anonymous https://emotionsanonymous.org

Adult Children of Alcoholics and dysfunctional Families https://adultchildren.org/

Trauma Recovery Networks and Books

Alice Miller - Pioneering psychologist and author on treating adult survivors of childhhod trauma and abuse.  www.alice-miller.com

Bessel van der Kolk, MD. - Pioneering trauma researcher and author of The Body Keeps the Score.  Documented the physical and mental effects of trauma. Conducted years of research into what techniques actually work to heal trauma and PSTD.  www.besselvanderkolk.com

Peter Levine, PhD.- Peter developed Somatic Experiencing, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.  He is the founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and Foundation for Human Enrichment, a world-wide organization committed to training professionals in somatic based trauma care.  www.opencenter.org

Dr. Gabor Maté - Addiction Expert, Speaker and Best-selling Author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and The Myth of Normal.  Teaches that the essential condition for healthy development is the child’s relationship with nurturing adults.  Provides insight into the environmental factors necessary for healthy child development, how these conditions are increasingly under threat in today’s society, and how parents and teachers can help.  https://drgabormate.com/

The Burke Foundation - Educating about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

Research finds that the long-term impact of ACEs determines future health risks, chronic disease, and premature death. Individuals who had experienced multiple ACEs also faced higher risks of depression, addiction, and obesity.   https://burkefoundation.org

Bruce Perry/ Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.  Perry is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and co-author of What Happened to You with Oprah Winfrey. His work focuses on the impact of adverse experiences including child trauma on the developing child. He is the developer of the Neurosequential Model.  www.bdperry.com

Resmaa Menakem - Teacher, activist and author of My Grandmothers Hands…Begin with the Body.  His Somatic Abolitionism trainings are a living embodied Anti-Racism culture rebuilding mindfulness practice.   www.resmaa.com

  Richard Davidson, PhD, website for Center for Healthy Minds https://centerhealthyminds.org/