Hey everyone,
Seeing as many of us don't have access to actual therapy -for various reasons- I wanted to start a thread for sharing free online resources that we have found useful.
My personal favorites are mostly on YouTube.
Jerry Wise is a certified life coach and family counselor who has personal experience with difficult/narcissistic parents. He posts regular full length videos that I have found very insightful, validating and helpful.
Jay Reid is a licensed clinical therapist who focuses mainly on adult scapegoat children of narcissists. His material is incredibly helpful in a way that often brings up a lot of repressed emotions for me. I mean that in a good way, but it can get pretty taxing.
Patrick Teahan may already be familiar to most of us, he's a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with personal experience growing up in a very toxic family and he's an absolute rock star in this field. While he is slow to upload full length videos at this time, he has an impressive and immensely helpful catalog of previous uploads that have honestly done more for me than a lifetime of actual therapy has.
And last but not least, while technically not a free resource, there are so many links online to a free PDF of this book that I might as well share it here.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson. I consider this a must read for pretty much everyone.
If you have found any resources that have been helpful to you, please share them in the comments!
PS I would like to advise everyone that there are also a lot of hacks (especially on YouTube) that are cashing in on the popularity of certain buzzwords, and that can be misinformed at best and downright predatory in some worse cases. The only ones I have shared are either licensed therapists or certified counselors for this reason. But always use caution.
WHAT THE EFF!!