PTSD Resources

Carefully curated and personally used on my own wellness journey, only my favorite tools make this list! I have found healing through each resource I share here and continue to uncover new tools everyday.

This list grows as I continue to heal.

I’ll add to this list as I find useful resources to share with you. If you would like to share a resource that has worked for you or work with a tool in the mental health space please contact me!

Note: This page includes some affiliate links. Should you click an affiliate link and make a purchase I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you and the money I make here helps support my ongoing healing efforts from PTSD.

Helpful Products

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Wave of Mind Journals

Welcome to the path to inner harmony, personal growth, and a deeper understanding of yourself with the Wave of Mind transformative 6-Month Emotional Wellness course through guided journaling.

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VeRelief Prime

VeRelief Prime Gen 3 is drug-free rapid mental recovery tools for people that go.

These small portable tools stimulates the vagus nerve, sending smooth, gentle, and soothing electrical impulses throughout the ear that feel amazing and calm the nervous system in seconds.

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Do you know that your ear is a microsystem of your entire body? Ear seeds are a non-invasive, safe, and effective tool used to stimulate points on this microsystem. Ear seeds can be used for numerous ailments including anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Enter Blooming at checkout for 10% off!

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Phone Apps

Developed by Mark Grant, MA, this app uses bilateral stimulation to reduce feelings of anxiety and panic. “What does bilateral stimulation do? Bilateral stimulation is a core treatment element of EMDR and a process which distinguishes EMDR from any other method. While there is still a lot to learn about this amazing process, it can be said that it produces four main effects:

  1. A relaxation effect including decreased physiological arousal.
  2. Increased attentional flexibility (meaning that your thoughts become less ‘stuck’ on whatever was bothering you).
  3. Distancing effect (meaning that the problem seems smaller and further away).
  4. Decreased worry.
    These effects are experienced as a ‘bottom-up’ cascade of changes meaning that they are experienced in the lower areas of the brain first, as a physiological response (ie; decreased tension) then travel ‘up’ the brain leading to mental changes (eg; decreased worry). Because this order works with how the brain normally processes information, the effects are often experienced more quickly and easily than with say top-down strategies such as insight and conscious introspection.”

With iMoodJournal, you’ll start tracking your mood in no time! You can do this any time, from any place with these easy steps. Later, you can discover more advanced options in the app.

“We believe everyone deserves access to a free daily meditation practice. Which is why we publish the world’s largest collection of free guided meditations, with over 60,000 titles.”

“Tapping, also known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), is a powerful holistic healing technique that has been proven to effectively resolve a range of issues. It is based on the combined principles of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology.

The basic Tapping technique requires you to focus on a negative emotion at hand – a fear, a worry, a bad memory, an unresolved problem, or anything that’s bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus on this issue, you use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times on 9 specific meridian points of the body.

Tapping on these meridian endpoints, while verbally or mentally addressing the root cause of distress, sends a calming signal from the body to the brain, allowing you to feel relaxed and in control.”

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Calming Epsom Salt

Insomnitol

Liposomal Neurocalm

Catechola Calm

5-HTP with SRT

Kava Stress Relief Tea

Yogi Bedtime Tea

Yogi Tea Kit

Calm Magnesium

Weighted Blanket

Acupressure Mat

Deep Sleep Pillow Spray

Deep Sleep Kit

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“Strength to Strength is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to support victims of terrorism around the world with long-term psychological needs through regular meetings, provision of information and advice, and raising awareness of the unmet needs of victims and their families. Strength to Strength enables victims of terrorism to share experiences and empowers them to live life to their best potential. We remain committed to each victim through our global network.”

“The Rebels Project was formed by a group of Columbine survivors in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting in 2012. These survivors simply wanted to offer their support to the Aurora community after they had experienced similar trauma.”

ARS

“We are an integrated behavioral healthcare management company dedicated to the treatment of addiction, substance abuse, eating disorders and mental health issues.”

Therapy Support

Rewire Therapy

Talk therapy doesn’t always work – especially when the nervous system is still affected by trauma. Rewire Therapy’s 10-minute-a-day somatic exercises work directly with the nervous system to gently release the effects of trauma.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy approach. It contains elements of many effective psychotherapies in structured protocols that are designed to maximize treatment effects. These include psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies EMDR is an information processing therapy and uses an eight-phase approach to address the experiential contributors of a wide range of pathologies. It attends to the past experiences that have set the groundwork for pathology, the current situations that trigger dysfunctional emotions, beliefs and sensations, and the positive experience needed to enhance future adaptive behaviors and mental health.

Making professional counseling accessible, affordable, convenient – so anyone who struggles with life’s challenges can get help, anytime, anywhere.

Mental Health America offers a quick questionnaire to help you determine if you are living with PTSD.

Your Brightside care team includes a Doctor and Therapist who stay by your side every step of the way, from making sure your personal treatment plan is just right to helping you build the skills to feel better and stay that way.

Our clinical team interviews all potential clinicians, and we conduct licensing and background checks to make sure you receive the best possible care.

Good Books to Read

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Check out my blog for more articles created to support your PTSD healing journey.