If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, including thoughts of harming yourself, suicide, or harming others, please contact one of the following:

North Carolina:

Call or text 988

Mobile Crisis Services (Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon, Graham, Clay, and Cherokee Counties):
1 (888) 315-2880

Michigan:

Call or text 988 or visit Lifeline Chat for live chat

National:

LGBT National Hotline: 1 (888) 843-4564

North Carolina:

The WNC Listening Line provides non-crisis emotional support between community members.

Call or text any time to connect with another seeker or Peer in Western North Carolina: (828) 547-4547

I recommend the Insight Timer app, which has a wide variety of meditations, music, talks, and courses that promote wellbeing. They also offer a meditation timer. This app is free.

National:

National Domestic Violence Hotline provides educational resources on abuse within relationships, including specific and relevant information and support for different communities (Native American, Latinx, Black, etc.). Crisis line: 1 (800) 799-7233, text START to 88788 or visit website for online chat feature.

Love Is Respect provides educational resources about healthy relationships, the spectrum of abuse, dating, power and control, setting boundaries, consent, etc. Crisis line: 1 (866) 331-9474, text LOVEIS to 22522, or visit website for online chat feature.

North Carolina:

REACH of Haywood County provides services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse, including advocacy and emergency shelter. 24-hour Helpline: (828) 456-7898

Helpmate of Asheville, NC provides shelter, case management, counseling, court advocacy, children’s programs for those experiencing domestic violence. 24-hour hotline: (828) 254-0516

Our Voice of Asheville, NC provides services for people experiencing sexual violence and human trafficking. 24-hour crisis line: (828) 252-0562 or text VOICE or VOZ to 85511.

Michigan:

Safe Haven Ministries of Grand Rapids, MI provides crisis support, one-on-one advocacy, shelter and housing support, protection order support, and support groups. 24-hour hotline: (616) 452-6664

Religious Trauma Institute is a community of clinicians, researchers, advocates, and survivors. They currently provide informational videos.

Reclamation Collective provides education, information on support groups, workshops and events.

Childhood Religious Indoctrination Infographic

Journey Free provides consulting, group support, retreats, education and resources, including lists of recommended books, articles, videos, etc.

Exvangelical (Facebook Group)

Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion by Marlene Winell, Ph.D.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

All About Love by bell hooks

Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook by Janina Fisher

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky

Trauma and Recovery: the Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman

Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life by Jamie Marich

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: the Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter Levine

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Face of Neurodiversity by Devon Price

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegal