Recommended Resources

Life Sense Counselling recommended resources including curated books, counselling resources, websites and videos.

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Life Advice/Self Help Books

Curated Websites

20 Vagus Nerve Exercises for Stress and Anxiety

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C Gibson

Tree of Life – Expressive Therapy Exercise

20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths Use to Silence You

5 Powerful Ways Abusive Narcissists Get Inside Your Head

10 signs of COVERT Narcissism

Enneagram Personality Type Test

Links to Enneagram Personality Type Test

This is the official Enneagram site and you can pay $12 for a test.

What Is Enneagram

How the Enneagram System Works

Enneagram Test

Alternatively, here is a quick free personality test.

Take your results and use the enneagram institute to read fuller explanations. If your scores are very similar, read the types and decide which is the best fit.

Attachment Style

Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space (Ainsworth, 1973; Bowlby, 1969). Attachment theory explains how the parent-child relationship emerges and influences subsequent development and can affect relationships later in life.

Understand your Adult Attachment style (By PsycAlive)

Take an Adult Attachment Style Test

Life Audit

This is a wonderful expressive therapy that involves mapping your life story as a tree of life exercise and diagram. I often get clients to do this at home in their own time and then we process it together in session. You don’t have to be an artist and how the end result appears is not important, it is the reflective process you go through.

Tree of life exercise

How to do a life audit:

This lady writes mainly for millennia women, but regardless of your generation, a life audit is a great action-oriented tool for self and life examination.

How to do a life audit

Self Knowledge

Autism Spectrum

Most people are on some kind of spectrum. There is growing awareness of the Autism Spectrum and many think of Rain Man (A movie about a man with autism starring Dustin Hoffman & Tom Cruise) but in fact, it is called a spectrum for a reason and many people exhibit varying abilities and areas they struggle with across functional tasks, intellect and vocational ability and social behaviors.

There is a lot of discussion about the under-diagnosis of autism/asperges and many people may wonder “do I have Autism or “do I have Aspergers”. Whilst there are pros and cons of a formal diagnosis, the below well-researched self-report Autism Quotient test/scale can be insightful.

Simon Barron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Cambridge Autism Research Centre developed this tool as part of the widely cited study entitled The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians.

Please note this does not constitute a diagnosis, but is for self-awareness only and perhaps a catalyst for thinking about what you might like to do next: nothing and for your knowledge only (“that’s interesting”); to share with loved ones so they understand you better; to come into therapy to process what this means for you; or to seek a formal diagnosis to confirm the test result.

Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) – self report autism scale test for Adults

Depression, Anxiety and Stress (DAS) Test

Here is a Depression, Anxiety and Stress Test (DAS) that is often administered by psychiatric professionals and I sometimes use to gain a benchmark for the wellbeing of a client. Please Note: I do not advise taking this test outside of a therapeutic relationship with a counsellor or psychologist/psychiatrist.

Take the test online and print out your results to bring to therapy to discuss. You can do this at different time intervals to monitor how you are feeling.

Online Anxiety, Depression & Stress test

Here are some other websites and resources that you may find useful to find out more about living with Autism: www.amaze.org.au www.autismqld.com.au

Rejection Sensitivity

This is a great article on rejection sensitivity with some interventions and exercises you can try yourself or bring to therapy to discuss. https://www.scienceofpeople.com/rejection-sensitivity/