Resources

Immigrant Strong is a monthly newsletter by Vesna Jaksic Lowe featuring writing by immigrants and children of immigrants, or others who write about immigrant and multicultural life—the struggles, the triumphs, the quirks.

Foreign Bodies is a newsletter and online community centering immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness through storytelling. It was born from founder Fiza Pirani’s reporting fellowship with The Carter Center Mental Health Program. Main monthly issues are free for all to read, feature a personal essay on a particular immigrant experience, followed by research on its connection to mental health and well-being.

Asian Mental Health Collective aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide. Find an Asian Therapist Canadian Directory.

Indigenous Canada Course by University of Alberta

Elders Story Project: A Learning and Healing Toolkit

Books

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Pete Walker

• Men’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

• When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Dr. Gabor Mate

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self‑Involved Parents, Lindsay C. Gibson

• Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, Jonice Webb and Christine Musello

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb

Books by People of Colour

• What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

• Everyone’s a Alien When Ur a Aliebn Too, Jomny Sun

• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor

• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, bell hooks

Personal Essays that I Love

• The Hungry Heart, Naz Riahi

• Seeing My Body With Fresh Eyes, Ashley Ford

• Happiness Is Other People, Ruth Whippman

• The Dark Night of the Soul, Dr. Jordana Jacobs

• I’m not always attached to living, but hear me out, Fiza Pirani

• How I Lost My Legs and Gained... You Want Me to Say Something Inspiring Here, Sophie Helf

• The Healing Force Within, Dr. Gabor Mate

• A Slight Movement of Earth, P. Kim Bui

• ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy, Arthur C. Brooks

• Dating: We’re Doing it Wrong, Dr. Jordana Jacobs

• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person, Alain de Botton

• They’re Narcissists, and They’re Proud, Owen Long

Videos

• The Power of Vulnerability, Brene Brown

• The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion, Kristin Neff

• The Price of Shame, Monica Lewinsky

• Does School Kill Creativity? Sir Ken Robinson

• Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are, Amy Cuddy

• Brene Brown on Empathy vs. Sympathy

• The Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy Love, Katie Hood

• Nora McInerny: We don’t “move on” from grief. We move forward with it

• Jonny Sun: You are not alone in your loneliness

• Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality

On Addiction

• Catherine Choi: Everyone Has A Story

• Florence Welch On Addiction, Eating Disorder Recovery, And Finding True Happiness In Her 30s

• What Being Sober Has Meant To Me, Brene Brown

• Everything You Know About Addiction Is Wrong, Johann Hari

• In Her Words: Emily Note on Addiction and Family