Highline College Library: Recommended Reading: January-February: Self Care

Self Care

The new year is a great time to think about self-care. This guide focuses on tools and resources to help you care for your well-being. Please reach out to the Highline Librarians if you have suggestions for additional resources.

Acknowledgements

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - from A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde

Highline College Librarians have also developed resource guides for Anti-Racist Resources, as well as on Trauma-Informed Practices. See links to these LibGuides below.

Anti-Racist Resources
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Trauma-Informed Practices
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Books in the Library

The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care by Anna Borges
Call Number: Main Collection ; 613 B732m
ISBN: 9781615196104
Publication Date: 2019
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary
Call Number: 155.333 M722b 2016
ISBN: 1580056555
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
Call Number: 305.42 B877p 2019
ISBN: 1849353263
Main Collection--3rd Floor
How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
Call Number: 294.34 N576L 2015
ISBN: 9781937006884
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley
Call Number: 613.7046 S788e 2017
ISBN: 9780761193111
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us by Justin Michael Williams
Call Number: 158.12 W724s
ISBN: 9781683643722
Publication Date: 2020
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives by David M. Levy
Call Number: 303.4833 L668m 2016
ISBN: 9780300208313
Main Collection--3rd Floor
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Call Number: 155.3333 T246b 2018
ISBN: 1626569762
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Science of Stress Management: A Guide to Best Practices for Better Well-Being by Amitava Dasgupta
Call Number: 155.9042 D229s 2018
ISBN: 1538101203
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Transgender Mental Health by Eric Yarbrough
Call Number: 306.768 Y26t 2018
ISBN: 9781615371136
Main Collection--3rd Floor

Exercises and Other Tools

From Brandi Jackson Wellness: Emotionally Restorative Self Care: People of Color - Black People - African Americans

Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma
From Dr. Candice Nicole: "A 17 minute guided meditation using mindfulness, affirmation, and meta (loving-kindness)"
You Feel Like Shit: An Interactive Self-Care Guide
"This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It's designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn't require much judgment."
Everything is Awful and I'm Not OK: questions to ask before giving up
Copyright Sinope (eponis.tumblr.com), 2015.
A 4-Step Breathing Exercise to Cope With Difficult Emotions
"Processing requires stillness and awareness, which in turn restores the energy we need to keep doing the work. One way of finding this awareness is breathwork, a powerful meditation technique with roots in pranayama and Buddhist meditation. Breathwork uses sustained breathing to facilitate self-exploration."
Getting Started with Mindfulness
"Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us."
Free Mindfulness Resources
"The focus of this site is mindfulness as practiced in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and other closely related approaches."
BREAKING ISOLATION: SELF CARE AND COMMUNITY CARE TOOLS FOR OUR PEOPLE
Self and community wellness plans for the LGBTSTGNC POC community.
Do Nothing for 2 Minutes
Just like the name promises, this website encourages you to relax for 2 minutes, without touching your computer or mouse.