Self-Help Resources

• 15 Stories that Capture What It’s Like to be Adopted (HuffPost)
• A Core Issue in Adoption: Identity (article by Sally Verstraete, LMSW)
• The Adoptee Experience (Psychology Today article)
• Adoptees On (podcast)
• Adoptee Reading
• Adoption Resources (Emily Helder)
• A Felt Sense of our Value (podcast by Sally Verstraete, LMSW)
• Adoptee-Therapist Directory
• Harlow's Monkey
• Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN)
• Michigan Adoptee Collaborative
• Rhonda Roorda
• Rudd Adoption Research Program
• West Michigan Adopted People

Adoptee experience library resources

(including social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress)

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• Anxiety Self-Assessment
• What is OCD?
• OCD Facts
• Mayo Clinic
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Test Anxiety
• Anxiety Insights Magazine (Pine Rest)
• The JED Foundation

Helpful apps

• Breathing Zone: Google Play
• CBT-i Coach: App Store link
• Mindshift: Google Play
• Moodnotes: App Store
• Headspace: App Store | Google Play
• PTSD Coach: App Store link
• Pacifica: App Store
• Pause: App Store
• Smiling Mind: App Store | Google Play
• Virtual Hope Box: App Store | Google Play

Anxiety library resources

• Center for Student Success
• CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Understanding ADHD (Pine Rest)

ADHD library resources

• Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - 988 (or 800-273-TALK)
• Safe Haven Ministries
• YWCA

• American Psychological Association
• Mayo Clinic
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Depression Insights Magazine (Pine Rest)
• Understanding Bipolar Disorder (Pine Rest)

Helpful apps

• Optimism: Google Play
• Moodnotes: App Store
• Pacifica: App Store
• Virtual Hope Box: App Store | Google Play

Depression and bipolar library resources

• Alliance for Eating Disorders (helpline, free virtual groups, & resources)
• American Psychological Association
• Center for Discovery Eating Disorder Evaluation
• National Eating Disorders Association
• National Institute of Mental Health

Eating disorder library resources

• Hospice of Michigan
• Mayo Clinic
• Mental Help
• New Hope Center for Grief Support (free virtual groups)
• Half of Us
• Understanding Grief (Pine Rest)

Grief library resources

• 3 V-A-R Steps (Active Minds)
• Be there for them (Mental Health is Health)
• Friendships (The JED Foundation)
• How Using ‘QPR’ Can Prevent Suicides (Psychology Today)
• Seize the Awkward
• How to Help Someone at Risk of Suicide
• Intervene Bystander Campaign

Websites

• The Mindful Christian
• Headspace
• Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff)

Audio Meditation Guides

• UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
• University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality & Healing
• Siegel, R.

Interviews, Presentations and Videos

• The Calling of Delight - Greg Boyle (Jesuit priest, author, founder of Homeboy Industries)
• Pay Attention - Frederick Buechner (author)
• Selective Attention - Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (researchers & authors)
• How to Make Stress Your Friend - Kelly McGonigal (health psychologist)

Helpful apps

• Insight Timer: App Store | Google Play
• Headspace: App Store | Google Play
• Pacifica: App Store
• Smiling Mind: App Store | Google Play

Mindfulness library resources

• Autism Speaks
• Autism Society
• College Autism Network
• Designing Inclusive Dorm Communities
• Neurodiversity Hub
• Different Brains

Neurodivergence library resources

• Pain Education Toolkit (pain management education)
• Pain Reprocessing Therapy (what to do when pain flares)
• Miles for Migraine (understanding and managing migraine toolkits)
• US Pain Foundation
• Institute for Chronic Pain
• Pain is Weird (Pain Science)
• Why Things Hurt (TedX Talk)
• Tame The Beast (website) and video

• The Science of Well-Being (Yale)
• Headspace
• Brene Brown

Personal growth library resources

• Beggar's Daughter
• Cyber Sexual Addiction
• Fight the New Drug
• Sex Help

Helpful apps

• 6 of the Best Android Apps to Help You Beat Porn Addiction

Addiction library resources

Premarital counselors/workshops

• Catholic Charities
  (616) 356-6289
• Kristin Kuiper, MSW (983 Spaulding SE, Ada)
  (616) 682-7160
• April Oglesby, LLMFT (1345 Monroe Ave, Ste 204, Grand Rapids)
  (616) 213-0894
• Michelle Zomer, LMSW (103 College Ave SE, Ste 103, Grand Rapids)
  (616) 222-0424

• Alpha Grand Rapids
• Calvin Health Services
• Calvin Title IX Coordinator
• Pregnancy Resource Center

• Back to School Toolkit
• Helping Your College Student Cope With Psychosis (Psychology Today)
• Information for Individuals and Families (NASMHPD)
• Michigan Minds Empowered
• Strong 365
• Students With Psychosis
• Understanding Schizophrenia

• The Gottman Institute
• The 5 Love Languages
• Boundaries
• ePREP: Love Takes Learning online program
• Our Relationship online program
• One Love
• Domestic Violence and Abuse (HelpGuide)
• What is Domestic Abuse?

Relationship library resources

• Understanding Self-Harm (Pine Rest)
• Cutting and Self Harm (HelpGuide)
• Self Harm (NAMI)
• Support for Self-Harm Recovery (The Trevor Project)
• Understanding Self-Injury (The JED Foundation)
• Self Harm (The Recovery Village)
• Self-Care (TWLOHA)

Helpful apps

• Calm Harm: App Store | Google Play

• YWCA West Central Michigan
• Calvin University Safer Spaces
• RAINN
• Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services (DASAS)
• 1in6
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) or chat online
• YWCA Crisis Line: 616-776-RAPE (7273)

Sexual assault and misconduct library resources

• Calvin Sexuality Programming and Student Support
• Embracing the Journey
• Sexuality & Gender Identity Institute
• The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender
• Living Out
• Revoice
• Q Christian Fellowship
• The Trevor Project

• Get the Friends You Want
• Succeed Socially
• Improve Your Social Skills
• Effective Communication
• Social Thinking

• American Psychological Association
• Stress Insights Magazine (Pine Rest)
• Self-care (Active Minds)
• We all have mental health (Mental Health is Health)
• Tips for Managing Stress (The JED Foundation)
• Press Pause (Half of Us)

Helpful apps

• Headspace: App Store | Google Play
• Smiling Mind: App Store | Google Play
• Optimism: Google Play
• Moodnotes: App Store
• Breathing Zone: Google Play
• Pacifica: App Store
• Pause: App Store
• Virtual Hope Box: App Store | Google Play

Stress and self care library resources

• AddictionCenter
• Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters
• Alcohol Assessment
• Alcohol Screening
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Campus Drug Prevention
• Cannabis Concentration and Health Risks
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration
• College Drinking
• Substance Use Disorder Insights Magazine (Pine Rest)
• Tobacco QuitLink

Substance use library resources

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• The Jed Foundation
• Speaking of Suicide blog/website
• Preventing Suicide
• Crisis Text Line – text HOME to 741741
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Helpful apps

• My3: App Store

Suicide Prevention Resources

• ZeroSuicide Resources

Suicide prevention library resources

• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
• Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains—and lives
• Center for Humane Technology
• Digital Wellness: Meaningful Daily Actions for Students
• This Panda Is Dancing (Time Well Spent)

• Half of Us
• Mental Health Grace Alliance blog
• Mental Help
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Step UP
• The Desk
• uLifeline
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Pine Rest Blog

Helpful Apps

• Optimism: Google Play
• Mood Meter: Google Play/App Store
• Daylio: Google Play/App Store

Mental health library resources