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Expert tools, guides, & support to help you heal & grow
Resource Hub
Tools for Mental Wellness
Welcome to our Resource Hub, a curated collection of tools and practices to support your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Whether you’re seeking self-guided materials or supplementary resources between therapy sessions, you’ll find a variety of options to aid your journey. All insights provided below are free to download and explore at your own pace.
Insights
Virtual Holistic Healing: A Compassionate Path to Wholeness
This gentle, thoughtfully designed guide introduces you to whole-person healing. Learn how our virtual approach supports the mind, body, spirit, and nervous system with trauma-informed care. Inside you’ll find an overview of the support we offer, grounding tools, and reflection prompts to help you take the next step.
Start feeling better with compassionate, holistic support.
Struggling
in Silence?
15 Mental Health Truths to Help You Start Healing
Struggling in Silence? is a compassionate and empowering insight created for anyone quietly carrying emotional pain. This 15-part guide from Virtual Healing Collective offers gentle truths and reflections to help you recognize the signs of burnout, anxiety, trauma, and disconnection, while reminding you that you’re not alone and never have to heal alone. Through validating facts, holistic mental health guidance, and a reminder that reaching out is an act of courage, this resource opens the door to deeper understanding and relief.
Whether you’re in therapy or just beginning to explore what healing could look like, this downloadable tool is here to meet you with kindness, clarity, and your first step forward.
Blogs
Recommended Books
“The Body Keeps the Score”
by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
A foundational text on trauma’s impact, this book explains how traumatic stress affects the brain and body, often leaving a lasting imprint on one’s nervous system. Dr. van der Kolk, a leading trauma expert, shares decades of research and patient stories to illustrate ways trauma can manifest (e.g. hypervigilance, chronic pain) and reviews healing approaches ranging from EMDR and somatic therapies to yoga and neurofeedback.
“The Body Keeps the Score”
by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Oprah Winfrey
Framed as a personal dialogue, this accessible book shifts the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” It interweaves Oprah’s own childhood trauma stories with Dr. Perry’s expertise in neuroscience and child psychology. Together, they explore how early life adversity (abuse, neglect, household dysfunction) shapes brain development and emotional patterns, and how understanding one’s trauma history can foster healing and resilience.
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Oprah Winfrey
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
by Pete Walker, M.A.
A practical self-help guide for those suffering from complex trauma (typically stemming from prolonged childhood abuse or neglect). Therapist Pete Walker, who himself is a survivor of C-PTSD, breaks down the lingering effects of childhood trauma such as emotional flashbacks, toxic shame, and fear of intimacy and offers concrete tools for recovery. The book covers strategies like inner-child work, “reparenting” oneself, managing flashbacks, and building self-compassion, all delivered in a validating, “you’re not alone” tone.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
by Pete Walker, M.A.
Codependent No More
by Melody Beattie
This classic self-help book introduced millions to the concept of codependency, a pattern where one’s self-worth becomes entangled with controlling, pleasing, or “fixing” others. Beattie draws from her own journey and work in addiction recovery to define codependent behaviors (people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, feeling responsible for others’ problems) and provides gentle, practical advice to help readers reclaim their autonomy and well-being. With exercises and reflections, it guides individuals to stop losing themselves in others’ needs and start caring for their own needs.
Codependent No More
by Melody Beattie
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love
by Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel Heller, M.A.
Attached is a user-friendly guide to understanding attachment styles and their impact on adult relationships. It explains the three main attachment styles; secure, anxious, and avoidant, which originate in childhood but play out in our dating and partnership behaviors. Through relatable examples and quizzes, the authors help readers identify their style and learn strategies to improve communication and emotional security. The book offers advice on how different combinations of attachment styles interact, and how one can work toward a more secure style for healthier, more stable relationships.
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love
by Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel Heller, M.A.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder
by Jenni Schaefer (with Thom Rutledge)
This inspiring book is part memoir, part recovery handbook for eating disorder (ED) healing. Jenni Schaefer shares her personal story of battling an eating disorder (“Ed”) and how she learned, with her therapist’s help, to personify the illness as an abusive partner she needed to “break up” with. Written in short, engaging sections, the book covers key stages in her recovery from recognizing ED’s lies and manipulations, to coping strategies that helped her reclaim her life. Schaefer includes journal snippets, letters to “Ed,” and practical exercises so readers can start separating their own identity from the eating disorder’s voice.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder
by Jenni Schaefer (with Thom Rutledge)
“Eating in the Light of the Moon
by Anita Johnston, Ph.D.
Subtitled How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling, this unique book uses narrative therapy techniques to address emotional eating and eating disorders. Dr. Johnston draws on multicultural myths and feminine metaphors to help readers uncover the deeper feelings and cultural pressures that underlie their struggles with food. Rather than a clinical manual, it feels like listening to healing stories each chapter uses a tale or symbol (for example, the phases of the moon, or a folk story) to illuminate themes like the search for nourishment, the need for control, or finding one’s voice. It encourages reflective, intuitive exercises so readers can derive personal meaning and start transforming their relationship with eating.
“Eating in the Light of the Moon
by Anita Johnston, Ph.D.
The Gifts of Imperfection
by Brené Brown, Ph.D.
Written by renowned researcher-storyteller Brené Brown, this uplifting book is a guide to cultivating shame resilience and wholehearted living. Brown shares 10 guideposts for embracing your authentic self and letting go of the pressure to be “perfect”. Key themes include developing self-compassion, combating the fear of not being enough, building resilience to shame, embracing vulnerability, and practicing gratitude and joy. With relatable anecdotes and research findings, The Gifts of Imperfection encourages readers to find courage in their imperfections and to connect with others from a place of worthiness.
The Gifts of Imperfection
by Brené Brown, Ph.D.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW
In this practical guide, therapist Nedra Tawwab offers a step-by-step approach to understanding and establishing healthy boundaries in all areas of life (work, family, romance, friendship). She explains different types of boundaries (emotional, material, time, etc.) and why they are crucial for healthy relationships and personal well-being. The book includes realistic scripts and examples for how to assert needs or say “no” in respectful ways, and guidance on dealing with the guilt or pushback that often arises when one first sets boundaries. Tawwab’s tone is empowering, framing boundaries not as walls, but as bridges to more authentic connection and self-respect.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW
“In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by Gabor Maté, M.D.
Dr. Gabor Maté’s seminal work on addiction combines illuminating case studies from his work with individuals struggling with severe addiction and candid reflections on his own behavioral addictions. The book delves into the neuroscience and root causes of addiction, emphasizing that childhood trauma and unmet needs are at the heart of addictive behaviors. Maté compassionately portrays addicts not as people with a “broken moral compass,” but as individuals using substances or habits to soothe deep pain, a concept he encapsulates in the question: “Not why the addiction, but why the pain?” He also discusses societal factors that contribute to addiction and offers insight into healing through empathy, connection, and addressing trauma.
“In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by Gabor Maté, M.D.
Recommended podcasts
Over It & On With It
with Christine Hassler
Life coach and former therapist Christine coaches real people through heartbreak, inner child wounds, fear of abandonment, boundaries, and purpose.
Over It & On With It
with Christine Hassler
The Holistic Psychologist
with Dr. Nicole LePera
Dr. LePera blends psychology, self-healing strategies, and nervous system education in bite-sized episodes. Topics include self-sabotage, trauma cycles, triggers, boundaries, and consciousness-based healing.
The Holistic Psychologist
with Dr. Nicole LePera
The Mindful Kind
with Rachael Kable
This gentle, short-form podcast offers weekly tools for mindfulness, stress reduction, emotional awareness, and personal growth.
The Mindful Kind
with Rachael Kable
Therapy Chat
with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C
This trauma-centered podcast covers emotional wellness topics like complex PTSD, somatic experiencing, dissociation, mindfulness, boundary-setting, and relational healing.
Therapy Chat
with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C