Identity

• But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kohli

  • A beautiful rendition of bicultural straddling and what it means to be child of immigrants

• Stigma: Breaking the Asian American Silence on Mental Health by Tanaya Kollipara

  • exploring the unique challenges held by AAPIs

• Where I belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity by Soo Jin Lee & Linda Yoon

  • An introduction to healing and navigating identity complexities

Self Help + Therapy

• A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • Finding Meaning in the toughest of times

• Staring at the Sun by Irvin D Yalom

  • Exploring the idea of our own mortality

• The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D Yalom

  • A look into the therapeutic process

• The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Chad LeJeune

  • A self-help book for anxiety

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns

  • self-help book for depression

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

  • Exploring how trauma not only impacts of our psychological selves but also physical.

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear

  • Explore how to change everyday life

Relationships

• What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence by Michele Filgate

  • Discussing the impact of various events on mother-daughter relationships

• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner

  • A memoir of a not-so perfect mother

• Keeping the Love you Find: A Personal Guide by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

  • A personal journey to take when seeking intimacy

• The Healing Connection: How Woman Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life by Jean Baker Miller

  • The unique experience of women in creating and sustaining relationships

Advocacy

• Prisons Make Us Safer: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law

  • A book for advocates and those interested in learning about the history and impact of prisons on US society

• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

  • Dissecting the blind spots of modern day feminism and a call to action for supporting a marginalized population

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

  • A Memoir of the life undocumented folk live in the US

• Saying the Wrong Thing: How to Speak Up in Difficult, Controversial, or Emotionally Charged Conversations by Danielle N. Moyer, Monica M. Gerber & Molly S. Tucker

  • A book that provides guidance on navigating challenging conversations

• The Mindful Muslim

  • Intersecting islam and mental health

• Where Should We Begin?

  • Couples therapy in real-life

• Terrible, Thanks for Asking

  • Having raw and honest conversations

• Suicide Noted

  • Open conversations with suicide attempt survivors

• The Happiness Lab

  • Paths to well-being

• The Trauma Therapist Podcast

  • Unpacking mental health recovery

• The Anxiety Podcast

  • How to overcome anxiety

• Radio Headspace

  • Daily mindfulness and guided meditations

• Stutz - Documentary

  • Conversations between Jonah Hill and his therapist

• Couples Therapy

  • Real-life couples in therapy

• Never Have I Ever

  • Devi deals with conversion disorder, grief, issues of acculturation and so much more.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Why we experience suffering

• Inside Out (1+2)

  • Learn all about emotions

• Ted Lasso

  • Sports + Psychology

@letstalk.mentalhealth

@gottmaninstitute

@nedratawwab

@dr.han.ren

Books:

• But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kohli

  • A beautiful rendition of bicultural straddling and what it means to be child of immigrants

• If I Had to Tell it Again by Gayathri Prabhu

  • A memoir reflecting on her and her father’s struggles with mental health

Podcasts:

• The Mindful Muslim

  • Intersecting islam and mental health

• The Desi Condition

  • Cultural and Historical Contexts impacting South Asian Mental Health

• Brown Taboo Project

  • Hosted by the South Asian Sexual & Mental Health Alliance to discuss taboo South Asian topics

• So We’ve Been Told

  • More from Sahaj Kohli

Tv Shows/ Movies/ Documentaries

• Never Have I Ever

  • Devi deals with conversion disorder, grief, issues of acculturation and so much more.

• Dear Zindagi

  • Normalizing therapy

• Taare Zameen Par

  • A story about Dyslexia

Socials

@Southasianmentalhealth

@Soch_Mentalhealth

@mhisa.national

@browngirltherapy

@the.poc.therapist

Books

• The Feelings Activity Book for Toddlers: 50 Fun Activities to Identify, Understand, and Manage Big Feelings

• World of Kids Emotions

• Mindful Kids: 50 Mindfulness Activities for Kindness , Focus and Calm

• Roaring Mad Riley: An Anger Management Story for Kids

• The Invisible String (The Invisible String, 1) - for grief

• Trauma-Saurus Rex: A book about Trauma for Children

• The Food Group Books - Socioemotional tails

• Breathe Like a Bear: 30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere (Mindfulness Moments for Kids)

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

• Raising Multicultural Children

TV Shows/Movies

• Inside Out

• My Neighbor Totoro

• Elemental

• Turning Red

• Luca

• Wonder

• Soul