Tools, apps, and stories for coping with natural disasters

An important part of mentally preparing for and moving forward after a natural disaster is actively taking care of your mental health and wellbeing during challenging times.

Below, you’ll find tools and apps that can teach you practical ways to mentally prepare for extreme weather, understand the impact of your experience, manage distressing feelings, and build resilience.

Get Prepared

Get Prepared is a mobile app that can help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters and other unexpected extreme weather events.

In this episode of Griefline's Life After Loss podcast, Linda speaks candidly about navigating the grief and trauma she and her family endured as survivors of multiple floods.

Helps with

Coping with grief

32 min read

Katherine and Jenifer's Stories

In this episode of Griefline's Life After Loss podcast, bushfire survivors Katherine Boland and Jenifer James speak candidly about their lived experience of climate grief following the 2019/2020 summer bushfires.

Helps with

Coping with grief

28 min read

Lilly and Lee's Stories

In this episode of Griefline's Life After Loss podcast, Lilly and Lee share how they hold on to hope while coping with the loss, grief, and trauma that comes with surviving multiple natural disasters.

In this episode of Lifeline's Holding on to Hope podcast, Chris shares how he was able to hold on to hope after surviving three major bushfires, including Victoria’s Black Saturday, and the PTSD it caused.

Smiling Mind is a mindfulness and meditation app that helps kids, teens, and adults improve their wellbeing, build mental fitness, and achieve specific goals.

Calm is a mindfulness, meditation, and music app that can help you improve your wellbeing, boost your mood, manage stress and anxiety, get better sleep, and more.

Daybreak is an app that can help you quit or change your relationship with alcohol by helping you track your drinks, set goals, change habits, and find peer support.

Calm Harm is an app that provides young people with tools, techniques, and activities to help manage and resist the urge to self-harm while improving emotional regulation skills.