Free Resources
The Quiz
Answer a few questions and walk away with real insight into where you are in your identity journey right now.
The Identity Inventory
A seven day experience with one question a day, designed to help you start looking at who you actually are underneath the roles, the titles, and everything life has required of you. No journaling experience needed.
Coming soon.
Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown — The most comprehensive database of existing climate solutions ranked by impact. Essential reading for anyone moving from awareness into action.
A note from Kylie
I spent years consuming resources like these before I realized the gap was never what I knew. It was what I did not yet understand about myself and the systems I was operating inside. These are worth your time, and when you are ready to go deeper reach out. xx
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the world's leading body for assessing climate science. Their reports bring together thousands of scientists from around the world to summarize what we know about climate change, its impacts, and what can be done. Dense but worth it.
Recommended Reading and Listening
Identity and Ego
The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
A good starting point for understanding how the ego shows up in your daily life and what it actually means to be present. Fair warning,not all is practical but take what's useful, leave what doesn't stick.
The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
Heavier read, more medical/scientific with some case studies. But the essence is there and it's important. If you want to understand the connection between trauma, identity and the body — this gives you insight.
Untamed — Glennon Doyle
A bit of fluff honestly — but empowering fluff. Sometimes you need permission more than you need a framework. This gives you that.
Women Who Run With The Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés
On my list.
Health and Well-being
The Happiness Trap — Russ Harris
A good way to learn how to unhook from your thoughts rather than fight them. More mental health than identity work, but the two aren't separate. Worth reading.
The Autoimmune Cure — Sara Gottfried
I have issues with the word cure, because we know there isn't one in the traditional sense. But the foundation is solid. If you want to understand the connection between trauma, identity and autoimmune health — the essence is here.
Becoming Supernatural — Joe Dispenza
Take what you need and leave the rest. Some genuinely useful techniques in here. But no book alone is going to change your life, and this one sometimes forgets that. Use it as a tool.
Podcasts
Dr Jill Bolte Taylor — "Your Brain Is Lying To You" — DOAC, Nov 6 2025 Harvard neuroscientist who had a stroke and spent 8 years recovering. Covers the four brain characters, ego identity living in the left hemisphere and whole brain living. Gives you neuroscience language for identity work. Her book Whole Brain Living is worth reading.
Brené Brown — "We're In A Spiritual Crisis" — DOAC, Nov 3 2025 Shame, vulnerability, courage and why disconnection is the real epidemic. She defines the spiritual crisis as emptiness despite external success. Her new book Strong Ground is worth adding to your list.
Hidden Brain Podcast— Shankar Vedantam The psychology of human behaviour and decision making.
On Being with Krista Tippett — conversations about what it means to be human, with some of the most thoughtful minds of our time on meaning, identity, and how we actually want to live.
Climate Change & Environment
Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation weaves together Indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to reframe our relationship with the natural world from one of extraction to one of reciprocity.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions — Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
An anthology of essays and poetry from over 50 women scientists, journalists, activists, and leaders at the forefront of the climate movement that centers the voices most often missing from the conversation.
Climate Resilience — Kylie Flanagan
Drawing on interviews with climate justice leaders across marginalized communities, this book makes the case that the most effective climate solutions are already happening at the grassroots level and we just are not paying attention to them.
Post Growth: Life After Capitalism — Tim Jackson
On my list. A philosophical and economic argument for imagining a world where meaning and relationship take precedence over endless growth, and what that actually makes possible for the climate.
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