REPAIR Mini-Toolkit

Us As Trees by Steven Craddock, This beginner-friendly guided body scan meditation uses the imagery of a grounded tree to help listeners gently connect with their bodies and breath. With an emphasis on accessibility, the practice reminds participants that there’s no right or wrong way to approach this meditation; just an open invitation to be present and compassionate with yourself. 

Waves of Awareness by Andrea Guerrero,  Relax and reconnect with this calming body scan meditation. In this guided practice, you'll gently bring your awareness to different parts of your body, from head to toe. This meditation is ideal for reducing stress, grounding, and bringing awareness of your body. Take a few moments to experience calm and clarity while listening to soft ocean sounds. 

Mindful Blossoms by Jackie Espinoza,  This guided meditation invites you to observe your thoughts as flowers in a vast, endless garden, noticing them bloom and fade naturally without judgment or attachment. Through deep breathing and serene visualization, you cultivate peace and clarity, embracing the role of a gentle observer in your tranquil mental flower field. 

A Release in The Sky by Breanna Cruz,  Experience comfort, relaxation, and peacefulness throughout this observing thoughts meditation. This exercise reminds individuals that although thoughts may seem permanent, they are temporary and can pass just like clouds, while listening to the light sounds of clouds passing by in the sky 

This guided meditation with imagery of emotions as a storm, will aid you in starting a sitting practice to develop the capacity to observe the contents of your experience compassionately from the calm center of the storm. By Meditation Mountain.

This guided meditation with imagery of connecting to the ground through the metaphor of a tree will help you connect to a felt sense of support. By Parent Lab.

Mingyur Rinpoche explains that emotions are not as solid as they may first appear, but, instead, consist of different components such as physical sensations. Moreover, when we become aware of these components, he explains that a natural space emerges within our experience.

In Feelings by Amy Saltzman M.D., learn how mindfulness can help teens understand and manage their emotions. This video offers tools to navigate feelings with awareness and calm.

The stunning news of Burke Harris's research is just how deeply ACEs can imprint our bodies; adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime.

The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders. 

Whether we call it the inner critic or the superego, most of us have a judge within who nags us and is constantly on our case. Byron Brown provides a comprehensive guide to understanding how the inner critic works as well as practical, positive suggestions for breaking free of it.

In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach’s transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world. 

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed