Resources
We’ve gathered some of our favorite apps, podcasts, books, games, and other resources to support mental health, wellness, connection, and personal growth.
Apps for Mental Health & Wellness
It is a free, non-profit emotional wellbeing and journal app created in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Dr. Marc Brackett.
Insight Timer
Great selection of guided meditations for sleep, anxiety, self-esteem, grounding & soothing music. Our favorites:
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Wake Up Your Inner Wisdom — Insight Timer
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Power Nap — Insight Timer
I love the guided breath function: great practice to use a couple minutes a day or when struggling with anxiety or stress.
Great way to get yourself into a wonderful AM routine! Most yoga sessions are 15–20 min. Can be used as an alarm clock.
Resources for Kids & Families
Choose-your-own-adventure to demonstrate consequences related to behavioral choices.
Great for building a feelings vocabulary and talking to kids about their feelings.
Great book that practices muscle relaxation.
Great book about anxiety for kids.
Good book for older girls to help them feel comfortable being true to who they are and build self-confidence.
Books & Print Resources
Transgender Teen by Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney
A handbook for parents and professionals supporting transgender and non-binary teens. Also checkout "The Transgender Child" by the same authors.
Free to be me by Dom & Ink (activity journal)
An LGBTQ+ journal of love, pride & finding your inner rainbow.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (book and workbook) by Lindsay C. Gibson
Explores how growing up with emotionally unavailable, self-absorbed, or dismissive parents causes childhood emotional loneliness, self-doubt, and guilt into adulthood.
Games for Families
I love this game for families! Learn new vocabulary and talk about everyone’s strengths.
Other Community Supports
The Trevor Project
It is the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people (ages 13–24).
Youth Pride Rhode Island
Youth Pride, Inc. is a Rhode Island nonprofit organization founded in 1992 that supports LGBTQIA2S+ youth and young adults aged 24 and under through direct services, mental health counseling, advocacy, and educational programming.
Butler Express Care
Provided by Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, this is an urgent care-style clinic offering same-day, outpatient behavioral health assessments and short-term support for adolescents, adults, and older adults.
The Rhode Island Office of Healthy Aging (OHA) is the state agency dedicated to supporting older adults (aged 55 and older), adults with disabilities, and their family caregivers.
Lifelong Learning Collaborative
The Lifelong Learning Collaborative (LLC) is an independent, non-profit adult continuing education organization based in Rhode Island, originally founded in 1983 as the Brown Community for Learning in Retirement (BCLIR).
Fundati Run Club
Our coffee neighbors! Fundati Run Club is a highly popular, community-focused social running and walking group based out of Fundati Coffee in Lincoln, Rhode Island.