Tactical Recovery.
Recovery isn’t soft — it’s how you stay in the fight. These are established, free, Australian-built apps and self-help tools for sleep, grounding and resilience, hand-picked for our community. We don’t host any of this ourselves — each one opens on its own site or app, on your terms.
Open Arms
Current & former ADF members and their families
Free self-help tools for stress, sleep, anger and resilience — including the content from the retired High Res and PTSD Coach apps, now hosted online by Open Arms.
By Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA)
Insight Timer
Anyone — free meditation, sleep & calm
A huge free library of guided meditations, sleep tracks and breathing exercises — find one by length, topic or teacher.
By Insight Timer
Smiling Mind
Anyone — with dedicated first-responder & emergency-services content
A free Australian mindfulness app with guided programs, including content built for emergency-services workers.
By Smiling Mind (Australian not-for-profit)
A note on what this is. The Wellness Hub is peer-support and self-help wellbeing content and signposting — shared by the community, for the community. It is not medical advice, therapy, diagnosis or crisis counselling, and it’s no substitute for care from a doctor or mental-health professional. If you need urgent help, use the numbers pinned at the top of the page, or call 000.