Counselling Resource Libraries

Trust Your Hunger and Make Peace with Food
Video
In this TED Talk, Eve Lahijani shares how making peace with your food and learning more about a healthy relationship with your eating helps to maintain a better mindset and lifestyle

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction
Book
A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

Beyond the Gender Binary
Book
In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Book
Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of colour are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Book/Audiobook
A cleverly written book, which -if followed- are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness; on the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
Book/Audiobook
Have you tried to win the war with your anxious mind and body, only to end up feeling frustrated, powerless, and stuck? If so, you're not alone. This research-based workbook can empower you to reclaim your relationship with anxiety, without the fight!

Hanger Management
Book/Audiobook
This book explores how mindful eating can affect your mental health and relationships; and it explores the themes of being "hangry" (a combination of hungry+angry), how overeating can lead you to feeling “regretfull” (getting overly full and regretting your behaviour), and “hangxiety” describing how allowing yourself to get overly hungry can make you feel anxious.

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Book
Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. 

Re-Write: The Journey from Self Harm to Healing
Book/Audiobook
ReWrite is a book that cuts through stigmatizing and medical terminology to help those who cut and help their friends and family have a better understanding of self-injury; includes a bonus workbook by co-author and mental health provider.

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
Book
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.