Resources:

San Diego Access & Crisis Line: Call or Text 888-724-7240

Crisis Services: Warm-lines that do not use police intervention

The warm-lines below offer transparency about their reporting and tracing policies:

Call Blackline Call or text: 800-604-5841

Blackline: Peer support and counseling prioritizing BIPOC, with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."

Trans Lifeline US: 877-565-8860 Canada: 877-330-6366

Trans Lifeline: Trans peer support for Trans community that’s been "divested from police since day one. Run by and for Trans people."

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line 888-407-4515

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: Warmline answered by a trained peer supporters. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent." See hours here.

StrongHearts Native Helpline Call 1-844-762-8483 

or chat online StrongHearts: 24/7 confidential and anonymous culturally-appropriate domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans. "advocates do not request or record the contact’s identification and/or address."

Thrive Lifeline Text 24/7: 1-313-662-8209

Thrive Lifeline: Trans-led and operated, focusing on people with intersecting marginalized identities. Does not "engage in non-consensual active rescue"

LGBT National Help Center

National Hotline: 888-843-4564

Coming Out Support Hotline: 888-688-5428

Youth Talkline: 800-246-7743

Senior Hotline: 888-234-7243

LGBT National Help Center: free and confidential support for LGBTQIA+ people and those with questions about sexual orientation and/or gender identity. "We will not contact any authorities or other services or programs on your behalf."

More Crisis Services

Some crisis line workers below are mandated to report calls regarding suicide to the police- if you are concerned about that, ask what their reporting mandates are when you call.

Trevor Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth 866-488-7386 

Text "START" to 678678 Trevor Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

NAMI Helpline 24/7 Text "NAMI" TO 741741

NAMI Helpline to talk to a trained crisis counselor 24/7 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

  • (800) 273-8255

  • (800) 799-4889 Deaf or hard of hearing

  • (800) 273-8255 Video relay service and voice/ caption  

  • (888) 628-9454 Red de prevención de suicidio en Español 

National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233 

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (800) 656- 4673 

Veterans Crisis Line (800) 273-8255 

National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline (800) 656-4673   

Alcoholism & Drug Dependency Hope Line (800) 622-2255

Lines for Life 800-273-8255

  • Lines for Life: talk to a suicide or substance use specialist. They also offer support for: military & family, senior loneliness, teen-to-teen crisis help, and racial equity support.

Books we love

Neurofeedback

  • A Symphony in the Brain by Jim Robbins

  • The Neurofeedback Solution: How to Treat Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, Brain Injury, Stroke, PTSD, and More by Stephan Larsen, PhD.

Trauma

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

  • Trauma and Recovery by Judith L. Herman, MD

Addiction

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Dr. Gabor Mate

  • The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Mate

Growth & Learning

  • Burnout by Dr. Emily Nagoski and Dr. Amelia Nagoski

  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

  • Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell

TBI & Head Injury

  • Documentary - “The Crash Reel” by Kevin Pearce, former Olympic Snowboarder

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks, PhD.

  • Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran, PhD., Sandra Blakeslee

  • Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy by Stacia Kalinoski

Music & Art

  • New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks, PhD.

Spirituality

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, MD

  • Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thicht Nhat Hanh

  • God of Our Understanding by Rabbi Shais Taub

Grief & Loss

  • Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee

  • On Grief and Grieving by Elizabeth Kubler Ross (author of On Death and Dying) and David Kessler