The safe haven resource library
A Little Support for Whatever Life Brings
Sometimes the right book, podcast, or story can help us feel a little less alone. We've gathered resources to help you understand emotions, navigate difficult experiences, and connect with the people who matter most. Simply choose a topic below to jump straight to the resources that feel right for you.
Grief & Loss
Grief looks different for everyone. It can be quiet or overwhelming, expected or sudden, and it doesn't always follow a predictable path. These stories and resources offer different ways to understand loss, feel less alone, and find language for experiences that can be difficult to put into words.
Books for Young Children
Death, Loss & Remembering
A story about remembering a loved one and finding ways to honor their memory.
A gentle starting point for children's questions about death and what happens after someone dies.
Explores emotional protection, loss, and the vulnerability of caring deeply.
A straightforward, child-friendly explanation of death, funerals, and grief.
Validates children's anger, confusion, and frustration following a death.
Helps children preserve memories and maintain a connection with someone who has died.
Uses a playful story to explore unexpected change and emotional responses to loss.
Supports children navigating the absence or death of their mother.
A gentle story about grief, friendship, and carrying difficult feelings together.
Explores love and connection after someone important has died.
Uses simple language to help young children recognize the many feelings that accompany loss.
A comforting metaphor for connection and love across separation and loss.
Shows the importance of presence, listening, and allowing emotions without trying to fix them.
Books for Tweens & Teens
Direct, accessible guidance for teenagers experiencing the death of someone important.
Practical, compassionate support for adolescents and the people supporting them.
One hundred activities and ideas for expressing and processing grief.
A novel about a young teen navigating the sudden death of her best friend.
A powerful novel exploring anticipatory grief, anger, guilt, and complicated feelings surrounding a parent's illness.
Books for Adults
Challenges the pressure to move on and offers a compassionate perspective on living with grief.
Explores the neuroscience of grief and how the brain adapts to profound loss.
Short daily reflections for adults grieving the death of a loved one.
A deeply personal memoir about the sudden death of a young child and the experience of living afterward.
An intimate exploration of bereavement, shock, and the ways grief changes our thinking.
A memoir weaving together the death of a parent, nature, and the search for meaning.
A resource exploring lived experiences of grief and loss.
Movies About Grief & Loss
Family-friendly. Explores sadness, change, and why difficult emotions matter.
Family-friendly. Explores remembrance, family bonds, and continuing connections after death.
For older teens and adults. A story about friendship, family, illness, love, and loss.
For adults. An imaginative exploration of death, love, grief, and the afterlife.
For older children and teens with caregiver guidance. Explores anticipatory grief and the complicated emotions surrounding serious illness.
Family-friendly, with emotionally intense opening scenes. Explores bereavement, memory, and reconnecting with life.
Family-friendly. Explores mortality, meaning, identity, and appreciating ordinary moments.
TV Shows About Grief & Loss
For teens and adults. Uses a fictional world to explore profound grief, avoidance, and the desire to undo loss.
For adults. A darkly humorous and often painful portrayal of bereavement, anger, loneliness, and connection.
For adults. Explores grief, family relationships, emotional avoidance, and healing, with a fictionalized portrayal of psychotherapy.
For adults. A family drama exploring loss, relationships, and the emotional impact of major life changes.
For older teens and adults. Explores family history, death, complicated relationships, and grief across generations.
For children and families. Select episodes offer gentle opportunities to discuss change, connection, and difficult feelings.
Podcasts & Conversations About Grief
Conversations about death, grief, and supporting people of all ages.
Honest conversations about grief, hardship, and the complexity of being human.
Accessible grief education, articles, and conversations for people navigating loss.
Helping Children Navigate Grief
Guidance for talking with children about death and supporting their emotional responses.
Caregiver resources for childhood traumatic grief, disaster-related loss, and recovery.
Support for children and families navigating a parent's serious illness or injury.
Grief education and support resources for children, teens, young adults, and families.
Trauma & Healing
Trauma can affect how we feel, think, connect with others, and experience safety in our bodies. Healing isn't about forgetting what happened or forcing ourselves to move on. These resources offer ways to better understand trauma, support the nervous system, and approach healing with curiosity and compassion.
Books for Children
A reassuring story about familiar routines, predictability, and the comfort of knowing what comes next.
Helps children recognize emotional and behavioral responses after witnessing something frightening or upsetting.
Uses animal characters to help children understand fear, stress responses, and the importance of supportive relationships.
Explores separation, difficult experiences, and the process of rebuilding connection and safety with caregivers.
An introduction to difficult experiences and the feelings that can follow them.
A reminder that children often need presence and understanding more than immediate solutions.
Books for Adults
Explores adverse childhood experiences, the effects of chronic stress on physical health, and the importance of early support and prevention.
Shifts the conversation from what's wrong with someone to understanding how their experiences have shaped their responses.
Explores embodied stress, racialized trauma, and approaches to personal and collective healing.
A foundational exploration of psychological trauma, safety, recovery, and the importance of relationships.
Introduces practical, Polyvagal-informed ways of noticing nervous system states and supporting regulation.
Examines the relationships among stress, trauma, health, and the social environments in which we live.
Offers an approach to responding to personal pain and difficulty with greater kindness and less self-criticism.
Books for Parents & Caregivers
Attachment-focused guidance for caregivers, particularly those supporting children who have experienced adversity or disruptions in caregiving.
Developmentally informed strategies for understanding children's emotions, behavior, and need for connection.
Explores how caregivers' own experiences can influence parenting and emotional connection.
Encourages caregivers to look beneath challenging behaviors and consider nervous system needs, stress, and emotional safety.
Focuses on the importance of consistent, emotionally available relationships in children's development.
Understanding the Nervous System
Educational materials about recognizing nervous system states, building awareness, and supporting a sense of safety.
Evidence-based information about trauma reactions, PTSD, treatment options, and recovery.
Information about childhood trauma, traumatic stress responses, and ways caregivers can support recovery.
Helping Children After a Traumatic Experience
Information for caregivers and communities supporting children after frightening or traumatic events.
Practical guidance for talking with children, understanding changes in behavior, and offering support following traumatic events.
Educational information about helping children and adolescents cope with traumatic events.
Videos, activities, and caregiver tools for helping young children navigate emergencies, stress, and difficult experiences.
Anxiety & Emotions
Big feelings are part of being human, but sometimes worry, frustration, fear, or overwhelm can feel difficult to manage. Whether you're learning to understand your own emotions or supporting a child through theirs, these resources offer practical tools, new perspectives, and reminders that emotions don't have to be fixed to be understood.
Books for Young Children
Helps young children identify and organize emotions using colors and visual storytelling.
Introduces children to the many ways emotions can feel and change throughout the day.
Uses colorful illustrations and accessible language to help children name emotions.
Encourages children to approach sadness with curiosity and compassion rather than trying to push it away.
Explores how listening and emotional presence can be more helpful than trying to solve someone's feelings.
A series introducing emotional awareness, regulation, and coping strategies through approachable characters.
Helps children understand how worries can grow when they remain unspoken.
Normalizes common childhood worries and encourages children to share their concerns with trusted adults.
Books for School-Age Children
An interactive workbook introducing cognitive behavioral strategies for managing anxiety.
Practical exercises to help children understand anger and practice responding differently.
Offers sensory and movement-based activities that may support self-regulation.
Uses humor and relatable examples to help children distinguish manageable concerns from things outside their control.
Introduces children to resilience, flexible thinking, and approaching challenges with greater confidence.
Books for Tweens & Teens
Exercises for understanding anxiety, identifying triggers, and developing coping skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-informed tools for navigating anxiety and uncertainty.
Activities that encourage self-understanding, confidence, and a more compassionate inner dialogue.
An approachable ACT-informed guide to handling difficult thoughts and emotions without letting them take over.
Introduces DBT-informed skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and relationships.
Books for Adults
Introduces ACT-based strategies for responding differently to difficult thoughts and emotions while living according to personal values.
Explores how to respond to personal struggles with kindness rather than harsh self-judgment.
A compassionate approach to daily functioning, executive functioning challenges, and reducing shame around everyday tasks.
Explores stress, emotional exhaustion, and practical ways to respond to the demands of everyday life.
Examines anxiety as a learned habit loop and offers mindfulness-based approaches to changing patterns of worry.
Combines mindfulness and self-compassion to explore shame, fear, and the experience of feeling inadequate.
Helping Children with Big Feelings
A relationship-centered approach to parenting that emphasizes connection, boundaries, and understanding behavior.
Introduces collaborative problem-solving for children who struggle with flexibility, frustration tolerance, and emotional regulation.
Explores how caregivers can respond to challenging behavior while supporting emotional development.
Encourages caregivers to consider nervous system states, developmental needs, and stress beneath challenging behavior.
Focuses on collaborative approaches to problem-solving and building healthy parent-child relationships.
Podcasts & Conversations
Practical conversations about parenting, emotional regulation, and supporting children through challenging moments.
Conversations about emotional health, relationships, vulnerability, and navigating difficult experiences.
Conversations about mindfulness, anxiety, emotional awareness, and mental well-being.
Discussions about child development, parenting, behavior, and emotional well-being.
Movies & TV About Emotions
Family-friendly. Explores the importance of sadness, emotional awareness, and adjusting to change.
Family-friendly. Introduces anxiety, self-consciousness, and the emotional complexity of adolescence.
Family-friendly. Explores emotional intensity, identity, family expectations, and growing up.
Family-friendly. Explores perfectionism, family roles, expectations, and the pressure to meet others' needs.
For children and families. Uses everyday family experiences to explore emotional regulation, flexibility, connection, and repair.
For young children. Introduces simple emotional regulation strategies through familiar routines and songs.
Online Resources & Practical Tools
Accessible information about childhood anxiety, emotional regulation, behavior, and mental health.
Educational information about anxiety, depression, and evidence-based treatment approaches.
Research-based information about anxiety disorders, symptoms, and treatment options.
Parenting & Family
Parenting and family relationships can be deeply meaningful and incredibly challenging, sometimes at the same time. Whether you're navigating big feelings, trying to understand your child's behavior, adjusting to a new family dynamic, or simply hoping to feel more connected, these resources offer support without the expectation of perfect parenting.
Books for Parents & Caregivers
A compassionate approach to parenting that balances connection, boundaries, and understanding what's beneath challenging behavior.
Developmentally informed strategies for helping children understand and integrate their emotional experiences.
Explores how discipline can be an opportunity for teaching, connection, and emotional development.
Introduces collaborative problem-solving for children who struggle with flexibility, frustration tolerance, and unmet expectations.
Focuses on helping children develop problem-solving skills through collaboration rather than control.
Explores how caregivers' own childhood experiences and attachment histories influence their parenting.
Highlights the importance of consistent emotional presence and secure relationships.
Attachment & Building Connection
Practical, attachment-focused approaches to supporting children who have experienced adversity or disruptions in caregiving.
Explores parent-child attachment and the role of connection in emotional development.
Introduces the Circle of Security approach to understanding children's attachment needs.
Explores early childhood development and the importance of emotionally responsive caregiving.
Foster Care, Adoption & Complex Family Histories
Strategies for building trust, understanding behavior, and supporting attachment in children with histories of adversity.
Practical guidance for caregivers using connection-based approaches to parenting children who have experienced trauma.
Explores experiences and questions that may arise for adopted children as they develop their identities.
A child-friendly introduction to foster care, uncertainty, and the adults involved in supporting children.
Helps children understand changes in family structure, including foster care and adoption.
Educational resources for adoptive, foster, and kinship families.
Parenting Neurodivergent Children
A strengths-based perspective on autism that emphasizes understanding individual experiences and supporting meaningful connection.
Encourages caregivers to consider nervous system needs, developmental differences, and emotional safety beneath behavior.
Collaborative approaches to supporting children who struggle with flexibility, transitions, and frustration.
Strategies for supporting executive functioning skills, organization, planning, and emotional control.
Explores reducing unnecessary demands and adapting expectations to support neurodivergent children and families.
Books for Children Navigating Family Changes
A reassuring picture book about a child who is loved and cared for in two different households.
Helps children understand that connection and love can continue across physical separation.
Explores family transitions and helps children understand that changes in caregiving do not determine their worth.
Celebrates the many ways families can look and the relationships that make them meaningful.
Introduces children to divorce and separation using accessible, developmentally appropriate language.
Parenting Podcasts & Conversations
Conversations about parenting challenges, boundaries, emotional regulation, and building connection.
Discussions about child development, emotional well-being, behavior, and family relationships.
Conversations about parenting, child development, emotional resilience, and relationships.
Practical discussions about respectful parenting, behavior, and supporting young children's emotional development.
Online Resources for Parents & Families
Information about child development, anxiety, behavior, learning differences, and parenting support.
Guidance for caregivers supporting children affected by trauma, loss, and difficult life experiences.
Free videos, activities, and caregiver resources addressing emotions, transitions, grief, and challenging experiences.
Information about attachment, caregiver responsiveness, and understanding children's emotional needs.
Resources about connection, empowerment, and correction for children who have experienced adversity.
Relationships & Divorce
Relationships can bring connection, comfort, and meaning, but they can also be complicated. Whether you're working to communicate more effectively, navigating separation, learning to set boundaries, or adjusting to a new family dynamic, these resources offer perspective and support for the relationships that shape our lives.
Relationships & Communication
Explores emotional connection, attachment, and patterns that can leave couples feeling disconnected.
Research-informed strategies for strengthening friendship, communication, and connection in romantic relationships.
Explores how couples can navigate conflict more constructively and understand the needs beneath disagreements.
An accessible introduction to adult attachment patterns and how they may influence romantic relationships.
Introduces approaches to expressing feelings and needs while listening with greater empathy.
Examines how ADHD-related patterns can influence communication, responsibilities, and emotional connection between partners.
Boundaries & Self-Advocacy
Practical guidance for identifying personal needs, communicating boundaries, and navigating difficult relationships.
Explores complicated family relationships and ways to respond to unhealthy dynamics.
Helps adults recognize patterns of emotional disconnection and explore healthier ways of relating.
Explores overfunctioning, caretaking patterns, and developing a stronger sense of self within relationships.
Offers practical language and examples for communicating boundaries in everyday situations.
Divorce, Separation & Starting Over
A structured resource for navigating the emotional and practical adjustments following separation or divorce.
Explores emotional healing, reflection, and moving forward following the end of a romantic relationship.
Offers questions for exploring uncertainty about whether to remain in or leave a relationship.
A memoir exploring relationships, loss, change, and the experience of being both a therapist and a therapy client.
Co-Parenting After Divorce
Guidance for navigating parenting across households while keeping children's needs at the center.
Explores practical and emotional aspects of raising children across two homes.
A picture book reassuring young children that love and connection can exist in both households.
Helps children understand parental separation and the feelings that may accompany family changes.
Activities and conversations to help young children navigate changes in family structure and routines.
Podcasts & Conversations
Real conversations exploring intimacy, conflict, trust, and relationship patterns.
Attachment-informed education about relationship cycles, emotional connection, and communication.
Conversations about relationships, identity, boundaries, family, and major life changes.
Movies & TV About Relationships
For adults. Explores divorce, grief, co-parenting, and the complexities of ending a marriage.
For older teens and adults. Explores family relationships, attachment, conflict, and generational patterns.
For older teens and adults. Explores vulnerability, communication, friendship, divorce, and emotional growth.
For adults. Explores grief, relationships, boundaries, and the complicated process of reconnecting with others.
For children and families. Offers everyday examples of connection, conflict, repair, and family relationships.
Identity & Neurodivergence
Understanding ourselves can be a lifelong process. Whether you're exploring your identity, learning more about ADHD or autism, navigating sensory differences, or trying to make sense of how you experience the world, these resources offer perspectives that emphasize curiosity, self-understanding, and acceptance.
ADHD & Executive Functioning
An accessible, compassionate guide to understanding ADHD and developing strategies that work with your brain.
Research-informed information about ADHD symptoms, executive functioning, and everyday management strategies.
Explores ADHD through a strengths-oriented lens while discussing common challenges and strategies.
Practical approaches for supporting children's planning, organization, flexibility, and emotional control.
Compassionate strategies for managing everyday tasks when executive functioning or mental health makes them difficult.
Education, advocacy, and resources for children and adults with ADHD.
Autism & Neurodivergent Experiences
An affirming perspective on autism that focuses on understanding experiences rather than simply changing behaviors.
Explores masking, identity, and the experiences of autistic people who may have gone unrecognized or misunderstood.
Explores autistic identity, advocacy, and the importance of listening to autistic people's lived experiences.
A personal and affirming exploration of neurodivergence, identity, and self-acceptance.
Explores the history of autism and the development of the neurodiversity movement.
Autistic-led advocacy, educational resources, and information about disability rights.
Books for Neurodivergent Children & Teens
A picture book about an autistic child learning to recognize the many qualities that make him who he is.
A story about friendship, connection, and understanding different social experiences.
A child-friendly explanation of ADHD and the experience of having a busy brain.
Activities designed to help children understand ADHD and practice coping and organizational skills.
Sensory and movement-based strategies for supporting emotional regulation.
Sensory Processing & Highly Sensitive Experiences
Introduces sensory processing differences and how they may affect children's everyday experiences.
Explores sensitivity to stimulation, emotional depth, and individual differences in processing experiences.
Guidance for understanding and supporting children who experience the world with heightened sensitivity.
Encourages caregivers to understand children's sensory, emotional, and developmental needs beneath behavior.
LGBTQIA+ Identity & Self-Acceptance
A graphic memoir exploring gender identity, self-discovery, and the language we use to understand ourselves. Contains mature content.
An accessible introduction to LGBTQIA+ identities, relationships, and experiences for older teens and young adults.
A short exploration of gender identity, expression, and moving beyond rigid expectations.
Mental health resources and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people.
Education, support, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies.
Podcasts & Conversations
Conversations about neurodivergence, identity, relationships, and experiences that may be overlooked in traditional diagnostic discussions.
Accessible conversations about adult ADHD, everyday challenges, and lived experiences.
Videos and educational content about ADHD, executive functioning, and practical strategies.
Movies & TV About Identity
For teens and adults. Explores LGBTQ+ identity, friendship, relationships, acceptance, and mental health.
For teens and adults. Explores identity, grief, family expectations, belonging, and adolescence.
Family-friendly. Explores identity, emotional intensity, cultural expectations, and growing up.
For children and families. Explores identity, emotional expression, acceptance, and relationships.
For adults. Explores identity, family expectations, intergenerational conflict, and finding meaning in relationships.
Texas Flood Recovery Resources
The impact of a disaster doesn't end when the immediate danger has passed. For individuals, families, and communities affected by the July 2025 Texas floods, grief, trauma, uncertainty, and the process of rebuilding may continue long afterward. We've gathered resources to support children, adults, caregivers, and communities navigating the lasting effects of this experience.
Supporting Children After a Disaster
Disaster-related trauma resources, caregiver guidance, and educational materials for supporting children and adolescents.
Guidance for helping children cope with frightening events, grief, traumatic experiences, and changes in behavior.
Information about coping after disasters and supporting children, families, and communities during recovery.
Developmentally appropriate videos, activities, and caregiver resources for young children facing emergencies and traumatic experiences.
Childhood Grief & Traumatic Loss
Grief support and educational resources for children, teens, young adults, and families following a death.
Information about childhood traumatic grief and supporting children when a death is associated with frightening circumstances.
Support for children and families affected by serious illness or injury involving a parent or caregiver.
Conversations about grief, loss, and the many ways people navigate life after a death.
Books for Children & Families
Helps young children recognize fear and stress responses after difficult experiences.
Supports conversations about distressing experiences and the emotions that can follow.
Helps children remember and maintain a connection with someone who has died.
A straightforward introduction to death, grief, and the questions children may have.
A gentle story about grief, friendship, and finding connection during difficult experiences.
Explores the importance of listening, emotional presence, and supporting someone through difficult feelings.
Support for Adults & Caregivers
A compassionate perspective on grief that challenges the expectation to move on or find meaning before you're ready.
Explores how the brain responds to loss and adapts to life after someone dies.
A memoir about the sudden death of a young child and the experience of living with profound loss.
An exploration of grief, shock, and the emotional and cognitive experiences following a sudden death.
Information about trauma reactions, PTSD, and evidence-based approaches to treatment and recovery.
Community & Disaster Recovery Support
Disaster recovery information, assistance resources, and community support.
Information about disaster assistance, eligibility, and recovery resources.
Information and referrals for community services, including housing, food, and other support needs.
Free, confidential crisis support available by calling or texting 988.
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