15 Life-Changing Resources for Improving Your Mental Health and Recovering From Trauma Without Medication

You’ll wish you knew about these years ago

Julie Lynn
7 min readJul 21, 2022
Photo by Michael Dam on Unsplash

Does it seem like everyone around you has effortlessly resumed normal life post-COVID, but you’re still struggling and not sure why?

Modern-day life was stressful before COVID. And due to the isolation along with feelings of fear and helplessness that COVID-life created, many mental health professionals refer to COVID as a collective trauma.

That means it’s normal for you to still struggle, as the emotions created from stressful or traumatic situations do not resolve because the situation has been resolved. The emotions remain trapped in our bodies unless we do the necessary work to actively process them.

COVID also may have served as a trigger, bringing to the surface issues you have been struggling with for years and compounding their impact on your life.

The good news is there are a variety of resources, many of them free or low-cost, that can aid you with any of your mental health challenges.

No matter how minor or major your mental health struggles are, from managing daily stress to recovering from trauma, you can use the following resources to help you recover and…

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