This page is designed to offer additional support, education, and connection—whether you’re currently in therapy, considering starting, or simply exploring on your own. These resources have been carefully selected to reflect evidence-based practices, affirming care, and practical tools for everyday challenges.

1. Emergency & Crisis Support

If you are in crisis or need immediate support, the following resources are available 24/7:

• National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – Call 988 Free and confidential emotional support for people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.

• Trans Lifeline – Call 877-565-8860 Peer support hotline run by and for trans people.

• The Trevor Project Lifeline – Call 866-488-7386 Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth.

• NYC Well – Call 1-888-NYC-WELL or Text "WELL" to 65173 Free mental health, substance use, and crisis support for New Yorkers.

2. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Support & Advocacy

• Emotions Matter: A nonprofit offering education, advocacy, and peer support for individuals and families affected by BPD.

• National Education Alliance for BPD (NEABPD): Provides resources, webinars, and skills training for individuals living with BPD and their families.

3. DBT & Skills Practice

• DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets (Linehan): The official manual for clients and clinicians using DBT.

• The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: A DBT-based guide for managing emotional intensity using mindfulness.

• DBT for Dummies: A beginner-friendly overview of DBT skills and philosophy.

• Self-Directed DBT Skills Workbook: Practical exercises and skill-building strategies for independent DBT work.

• Coping with BPD: Strategies for managing BPD symptoms through structure, skills, and daily planning.

• DBT Solution for Emotional Eating: Combines DBT with nutrition and behavior change strategies to manage emotional eating.

• DBT Self-Help: A free, user-run website summarizing core DBT skills with worksheets and videos.

Memoirs & Personal Narratives Related to BPD and Emotional Healing

• Building a Life Worth Living: Marsha Linehan’s powerful memoir of surviving her own struggles and creating DBT.

• The Buddha and the Borderline: A memoir blending Buddhist philosophy, DBT, and emotional recovery.

• Loud in the House of Myself: A striking story of navigating mental health, gender identity, and resilience.

• Get Me Out of Here: A candid story of living with and recovering from BPD.

4. CBT, ACT & Mindfulness-Based Self-Help

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy: A foundational CBT text that helps readers identify and challenge cognitive distortions.

• The Feeling Good Handbook: Practical tools to improve mood, relationships, and self-esteem using CBT principles.

• Mind Over Mood: A widely used CBT workbook designed for use in therapy or independently.

• MoodTools App: CBT-based mobile app for managing depression.

• Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: Accessible emotional regulation strategies from a DBT/CBT perspective.

• How to Be Single and Happy: CBT-informed tools for building fulfillment and self-worth.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Mindfulness

• The Happiness Trap: A guide to letting go of struggle and building a values-based life.

• The Worry Trap: ACT strategies for breaking free from chronic anxiety.

• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: A foundational ACT workbook with exercises to shift perspective and reduce avoidance.

• The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: Provides step-by-step guidance for using ACT and mindfulness to manage anxiety.

• The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: ACT-based techniques to help break the cycle of depression and increase flexibility.

• The Mindful Way Through Depression: Combines mindfulness practices with clinical insight to help interrupt depressive rumination.

• Radical Acceptance: Tara Brach’s guide to releasing self-judgment and healing through mindfulness and compassion.

5. Sleep, Self-Care & Well-Being

• Headspace App: Meditation and mindfulness tools for stress, sleep, and emotional balance.

• Ten Percent Happier App: Meditation training and science-based content for skeptics and beginners alike.

• Insight Timer: Thousands of free guided meditations, sleep aids, and mindfulness courses.

• CBT-I Coach App: Developed by the VA to help individuals use CBT for insomnia (CBT-I) independently.

• Self-Compassion: Kristin Neff’s groundbreaking book on treating ourselves with the same kindness we show others.

• The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A practical guide to developing emotional resilience and well-being.

• Lovingkindness: A classic text on cultivating inner peace and compassion through meditation.

• Full Catastrophe Living: The foundational book on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

• Daring Greatly: Brené Brown’s exploration of how vulnerability leads to deeper connection and resilience.

6. Relationships & Attachment

• The High-Conflict Couple: DBT-based strategies to reduce conflict and foster intimacy.

• Hold Me Tight: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) techniques for creating lasting bonds.

• Mating in Captivity: A provocative look at desire and intimacy in long-term relationships.

• Attached: A clear and engaging introduction to attachment theory and romantic dynamics.

• Fight Right: The Gottmans’ evidence-based guide to resolving relationship conflict effectively.

• Polysecure: Combines attachment theory and non-monogamy frameworks to support secure connections.

• Opening Up: A guide to navigating open relationships with communication, boundaries, and care.