Jan Fable, MS, LADC
Fairfield Connecticut
203.255.5055

Short-term Counseling for Individuals and Couples;
12 Step Recovery Support and Intervention Services;
and Career Coaching

Links

Mental Health, Including Trauma & Abuse
Loss & Grief
Spirituality
Financial Help
Physical Health
Giving
Educational Sites
For Fun

Mental Health, Including Trauma & Abuse

• The American Psychological Association offers help for dealing with traumatic stress at their help center.
• Depression among children and adolescents is common but frequently unrecognized. It affects 2 percent of prepubertal children and 5 to 8 percent of adolescents.
• There is a set of materials that can be used to help kids cope with the trauma of terrorism
  and its aftermath.
• The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation offers information about dissociative disorders and what used to be called multiple personality disorder and is now known as dissociative identity disorder.
• The New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation offers information and discussion.
• The Colin Ross Institute was formed to further the understanding of psychological trauma and its consequences by providing educational services, research, and clinical treatment of trauma based disorders.
• The Sexual Assault Resources Page is a referral service which provides information concerning all kinds of sexual assault.
• The Many Voices web site is by and for people who are recovering from trauma and dissociation and the professionals who work with them. Through the website you can also subscribe to the Many Voices newsletter which is one of the very best of its kind.
• The Wounded Healer Journal is a presence on the web for psychotherapists and others who have experienced the devastation of traumatic experiences, including child abuse.
• I regularly introduce clients to Nancy Napier's tapes and books. You can purchase her books - Getting Through the Day, Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, and Recreating Your Self - and her audio tapes at her web site and sample guided meditations, explore experiments in conscious living, read exerpts from her books, and learn about her workshop schedule.
• If you're looking for a therapist, try Find a Therapist which has national and international listings.
• At Health provides a resource center with topics that cover a wide range of both physical and mental health problems.

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Loss & Grief

• Grief and The Mindfulness Approach is an article about the help for bereavement one can find in mindfulness.
• On Our Own Terms is an extension of an excellent Bill Moyers' public television program. This site has links for all the end of life issues which were covered by the four part program.
• Tom Golden's web site, Crisis, Grief & Healing, offers encouragement, comfort, information, and a place where you can talk about your own experience.
• If you are dealing with end of life issues for yourself or for someone you love, Growth House offers resources and support.
• Helping Children Deal with Grief, a site created by Linda Goldman, offers information about children and grief.
• Suicide Survivors can find help here.
• Caregiving Online offers support for the caregivers of ill and/or aging family members, friends or neighbors.
• The C.A.R.E. Helpline is for people who are mourning the loss of a pet. It's provided by the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Spirituality

• If you've never experienced the labyrinth, or if you want to do it again, something wonderful awaits you at the Labyrinth Society.
• What is the Eight Fold Path of Buddhism?
• Sacred Space is a meditation site maintained by the Irish Jesuits. Visit when you have about 10 minutes to give to it.
• Writings on Jewish mysticism in the Kabbalah: here is an explanation of the Sefirot, or the Ten Qualities of God.
• The Awakened Woman website is a forum for the voices of women committed to freedom, justice and truth throughout the world."
• Voice of the Faithful is an national organization that had its roots in Massachusetts as a response to the horror of parishioners about the way pedophiles had been dealt with by the hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church. Its slogan is "Keep the Faith, Change the Church." 
• The Worldwide Online Meditation Center is a user-friendly site, created to provide clear, straight-forward meditation instruction to people anywhere on the planet. If you are just learning to meditate, you'll find everything necessary to get started quickly and easily. If you are already practicing meditation, you may discover new methods to deepen your practice.

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Financial Help

• The Women's Institute for Financial Education is a nonprofit organization established to help women.
• So far, there are 43 Money Clubs around the country. These are support groups for women who want to take control of their financial lives. Members discuss their financial aspirations and pitfalls and help one another plan for the future.
• Debtors' Anonymous offers help for compulsive spenders and chronic and obsessive savers. You'll find information about the organization as well as the locations of meetings in your geographical area and online meetings.
• The Women's Perspective on Money and Spirituality invites women to explore the connection between spirituality and money. Through retreats and third world trips designed especially for women, the Women’s Perspective provides safe and sacred space for women to explore their feelings about money and its use and influence in their lives, examine the increasing feminization of poverty world-wide, and begin to define and design their economic futures based on their own spiritual beliefs.
• Here is one of the many Mortgage Calculators that are available to you on the Internet.

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Physical Health

• Dr. Andrew Weil has a healthy mix of allopathic and natural medicine in a Q&A format. You can also get great healthy recipies, join the 8 Weeks to a Healthy America program, have your vitamin profile done and receive a list of vitamins and minerals appropriate for you, or use the search feature for finding answers to questions about alternative medicine.
• If you have a serious medical problem and want to know who the very best doctor specializing in that particular problem is, use the Physician Search feature at Best Doctors Worldwide.
• Two more excellent health information sites are National Institute of Health and an NIH site dedicated specifically to Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The latter also provides information on endocrine, metabolic, blood and urologic diseases.
• At Health provides a resource center with topics that cover a wide range of both physical and mental health problems.
• Get all the details about the medications you're taking, or about what the doctor wants you to take, at RxList.
• Detox Your World is a website about food, health, and physical transformation. Shazzie is an amazing Englishwoman who spreads the secrets that she's uncovered to millions of people throughout the world via her web sites, books, magazine columns, workshops and retreats.

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Educational Sites

• The Millionth Circle Initiative asserts that circles encourage connection and cooperation among their members and inspire compassionate solutions to individual, community and world problems. They believe that circles support each member to find her or his own voice and to live more courageously and intentionally.  Visit this site to learn more about Jean Shinoda Bolen's vision of the millionth circle changing the world.
• The American Psychological Association offers common sense ways to protect your privacy and assess online mental health information.
• The Institute of Noetic Sciences challenges us all to stretch way beyond our day-to-day thinking.
• Jonathan Goldman's site is all about the power of Healing Sound.
• The Sounds True catalogue is the place to find terrific workshops and speakers on CDs and tape.

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Giving

• The Hunger Site The Hunger Site is the world's first "click-to-donate" site where from June 1999 to June 2000, more than 73 million visitors have donated the equivalent of more than 8,500 metric tons of free food to help feed the hungry by visiting The Hunger Site daily and simply clicking a button. The donations of staple food, paid for by The Hunger Site's sponsors, are distributed to the world's hunger hot-spots by the United Nations World Food Programme.
• The Breast Cancer Site is a fast, free way to fund mammograms for underprivileged women. Throug this site you can increase the number of women who will receive the gift of early detection. They have generated funds to provide hundreds of women with mammograms. With your help, they can have an even bigger impact.
• Madre is a wonderful helping organization based on the belief that we can save the children of the world by helping the mothers.
• Greater Good is an online shopping site which donates 5% of whatever you spend to the charity of your choice. It is the creator of both the Rainforest Site and the Hunger Site.
• AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supporting long-term humanitarian assistance programs, for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion. 98% of your donation is used for aid.

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Just For Fun

• Layne Redmond is a drummer, teacher, workshop leader, and author of the book, When the Drummers Were Women. Visit her site, hear her music and learn about how the history of the frame drum and the history of women are linked.
• For women: Something fun is always happening at Planet Sark. Sark is the creator of a wonderful book called How to Become a Succulent Wild Woman and a book of daily readings called, Living Juicy. All her work is about accepting yourself as you are and taking risks with how you want to be in the world.
• Drummergirl is a site for women who drum.
• At Touchstone Farm & Yoga Center you can learn about Circle Dance, which is a wonderful way to reconnect with yourself and with the rhythms of nature.

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JanFable has worked as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. She has a master's degree in counseling and is a Connecticut licensed drug and alcohol counselor. Her primary training is in Bioenergetic Analysis which deals with the whole person. She has extensive training in the treatment of dissociative disorders and trauma survivors and in using of altered states of consciousness in healing. She has also completed Level I and Level II training in Thought Field Therapy.

Jan's training and experience expanded.

Jan Fable
203.255-5055
Fairfield, Connecticut

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