Mental Health Resources
Emergency
If you’re experiencing
a mental health crisis and need to talk to someone immediately:
call 911
or the 24-hour Colorado Crisis Services Hotline at
1-844-493-8255or go to your nearest hospital emergency room
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Call Someone
Connect with someone who will listen, understand, and care
1-844-493-8255
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Text Someone
Begin a text conversation at any time. We’re here to help
Text “TALK” to 38255
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Meet with Someone
Get support in-person at your closest crisis center
Click here to find your closest crisis center
My Favorite Books about Healing Trauma
Listed in order from most readable/accessible to least readable/clinical
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah WinfreyNo Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
by Dr. Richard SchwartzThe Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
by Dr. Hillary McBrideHow to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
by Dr. Nicole Perla
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Knowing and experiencing are not the same thing. Sometimes the most psychologically sophisticated thing we can do is stop trying to immediately understand what happened—and let it land.