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
Trauma
Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life by Dr. Holly Richmond
Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence edited by Debra Meyers & Mary Sue Barnett
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Dr. Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
No Bad Parts by Dr. Richard Schwartz
Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members by Dr. Sherrie Campbell
Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents by Dr. Sherrie Campbell
It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
Anti Racism
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Im Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Embodiment
The Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Hillary L. McBride
Mothers, Daughters & Body by Dr. Hillary L. McBride
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, by Sonya Renee Taylor
Anger
The Dance of Anger by Dr. Harriet Lerner
Self Compassion
Fierce Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff
Relationships
The Science of Trust by Dr. John Gottman
Attached by Dr. Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Sexual Health & Pleasure
Come As You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski
Addiction
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Dr. Gabor Mate
The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Mate
Liberation & Resistance
Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vison for Seeking Wholeness Everyday by Kaitlin B. Curtice
Pleasure Activism, the Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Decolonizing Therapy by Dr. Jennifer Mullan
My Grandmother’s Hands: Radicalized Trauma and the Mending of our Bodies & Hearts by Resmaa Menakem
Trans Experience
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation by Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, now goes by Roberto Che Espinoza
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by
Serano, Julia.
Grind Culture
Burnout by Dr. Emilay Nagoski and Dr. Amelia Nagoski
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone by Dr. Sarah Jaffe
Love
communion: the female search for love by bell hooks
the will to change: men, masculinity, and love by bell hooks
Boundaries
Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Feminism
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mike Kendall
A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
feminism Is for everybody: passionate politics by bell hooks
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis