Mental Health Resources
Resources
Videos
Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
Befriending Your Nervous System Through Polyvagal Theory | Deb Dana
Resources for New Parents
Websites
PANDA
Centre for Perinatal Excellence
Books
Towards Parenthood
Preparing for the changes and challenges of a new baby
Jeannete Milgrom, Jennifer Ericken, Bronwyn Leigh, Yolanda Romeo, Elizabeth Loughlin, Rachel McCarthy and Bella Saunders (2009)
Evidence-based self-help workbook for expecting and new parents with a focus on relationship with baby and partner and developing healthy coping strategies.
www.centreforperinatalpsychology.com.au/towards-parenthood-book
Raising A Secure Child
How Circle of Security Parenting can help you nurture your child’s attachment, emotional resilience, and freedom to explore.
Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper and Bert Powell
Parenting from the Inside Out
How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive
Daniel J Siegel and Mary Hartzell
Videos
Bluey episode
Baby Race is available on ABC Iview.
Captures the all-too-familiar mum experience of comparing our first baby to the other babies around us (usually in the parent group) and feeling like we are in a race to the baby development finish line.
Resources for Body, Weight and Eating Concerns
Websites
Butterfly Foundation
Eating Disorders QLD
Books
Unbearable Lightness
A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Overcoming Binge Eating Disorder
by Christopher Fairburn
Resources on Schema Therapy
Websites
Schema Therapy Society
Books
Running on Empty
Overcoming Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, Jonice Webb, Phd (2019)
Reinventing Your Life
Jeffery Young and Janet Klosko (1993)
Resources on Relationships and Attachment
Websites
The Attachment Project
PSYCHALIVE
Books
Hold Me Tight
by Dr Sue Johnson (2008)- www.holdmetightonline.com
Attachment-based self-help to reestablish and strengthen bonds in couple relationships.
Attached
by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller, M.A. (2011)