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Mindful Toolkit
It is important to dedicate time for self care and looking after our mental health. The Beder Mindful Toolkit is a hub a mindfulness featuring some of our favourite resources which we hope you enjoy exploring and find useful
Podcasts
Owning It
This practical and relaxed series explores everything from what anxiety is and why it happens to us, how our brains work and why it's actually very normal to the various tools and techniques necessary for owning it.
Man Down
Focusing on men's mental health, this podcast, alongside inspirational guests, shows that vulnerability isn't rooted in weakness but in strength.
GriefCast
A podcast examining the human experience of grief and death - but with different comedians each week, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.
Overcome Depression & Thrive
In this podcast, you’ll discover highly-effective tips, tools and techniques to overcome depression from every angle.
The Gratitude Diaries
Relying on both amusing personal experiences and extensive research, host Janice Kaplan explores how gratitude can transform every aspect of life including marriage and friendship, money and ambition, and health and well-being.
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton talks to incredible people about life, love, loss, and everything in-between as she reveals what happiness means to them.
The Self Esteem & Confidence Podcast
A podcast designed for the growth driven over thinker who is looking to build the confidence to go after what they want in life.
The Hilarious World Of Depression
Speaking to top comedians who have dealt with depression themselves this podcast offers a series of frank, moving, and amusing conversation
Ten Percent Happier
Dan Harris talks with eminent meditation teachers, top scientists and covers subjects such as enlightenment and psychedelics.
The Dan Draper Podcast
Aimed to encourage people to talk about how they feel, this podcast keeps important conversations around mental health and wellbeing flowing.
The Anxiety Coaches
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast brings you a relaxing and inspiring show sharing lifestyle changes to calm your nervous system and help you heal anxiety, panic, and PTSD for life!
Above The Noise
Using ancient techniques and some of his own personal practices, Russell Brand offers a path towards moments of peace and awareness that can help us navigate life's ups and downs.
Bryony Gordon’s Mad World
Joined by inspirational guests as well as ordinary people with extraordinary stories this podcast holds intimate conversations about getting unwell - and getting better.
The Happiness Lab
This podcast will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.
Mental
Each week joined by a special guest,this podcast, created by Bobby Temp it is a safe space to hear honest and insightful mental health interviews in the hope that listeners will feel more empowered to continue conversations with others.
Terrible, Thanks For Asking
Nora McInerny asks real people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are. It’s sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and often both.
Not another anxiety show
A podcast for all: from the always anxious to the occasionally overwhelmed to the painfully panicked.
Other People’s Problems
Normally, therapy sessions are confidential — but this podcast opens the doors. Hillary McBride and her clients want to help demystify mental health and give you the opportunity to hear other people’s problems.
The Dark Place
A podcast offering a shame-free space where people talk about how they care for their mental and emotional health covering topics including anxiety, depression, and mindfulness.
Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations
Awaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you by hearing Oprah’s personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, as well as health and wellness experts. All designed to light you up, guide you through life’s big questions and help bring you one step closer to your best self.
Mindfulness In Eight Weeks
A revolutionary 8 week plan to clear your mind and calm your life, including meditation instruction to support 20 minutes of home practice per day.
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
This podcast is the safe space for everyone with mental health struggles, from minor to major.
Dear Gabby
Episodes include unscripted Q&A sessions where Gabby Bernstein coaches listeners through life-changing transformations, plus free-flowing conversations about personal growth and spirituality with unique and inspiring guests.
Apps
Calm
The Calm app focuses on sleep, meditation and relaxation. Regular use of the audio programmes taught by world-renowned mindfulness experts can help you feel more focused, restful, relaxed and refreshed
Loona
Loona is a mood-altering app that helps you to stay calm during the day and prepares you emotionally for going to sleep with playlists and immersive stories
Headspace
Headspace’s meditation resources can be thought of as your mind’s best friend, making good days your new normal.
My possible self
This app guides you through life’s challenges and helps you take care of yourself through Interactive tools and coping strategies, using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Ten Percent Happier
Ten Percent Happier provides guided meditations, videos, talks and sleep content that will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice.
Breeze
Breeze gives you more awareness about your emotions and things that cause them. Based on CBT techniques, the app helps you learn new habits through tracking thoughts that can reduce negative beliefs and increase positive patterns of thinking.
Pillow Automatic Sleep Tracker
Pillow can analyse your sleep cycles to help you sleep better, wake you up at the lightest possible sleep stage and start your day refreshed and relaxed.
Glo
Glo offers Daily online yoga, meditation, Pilates, and workouts designed to help you feel better in your body and mind. Practice at home or on the go with classes for everyone.
Stay Alive
This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
Breethe
Breethe gives you more ways to tune out, wind down, and drop off. Including meditations, hypnotherapy, stories, music and sounds. It has been said to help anxiety, stress, sleep and more
SAM
SAM will help you to understand what causes your anxiety, monitor your anxious thoughts and behaviour over time and manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection.
Mood Tools
If you are feeling sad, anxious, or depressed, lift your mood with MoodTools. MoodTools is designed to help you combat depression and alleviate your negative moods, aiding you on your road to recovery.
Moshi
Moshi offers original audio stories, sleep sounds, meditations, and relaxing music. Moshi helps children relax, unwind, and sleep tight.
MindShift CBT
The MindShift CBT app was created to provide anxiety relief using CBT tools to adjust thinking and behaviours. The app claims to help tackle worry, panic, perfectionism, social anxiety, and phobias.
Portal
Portal brings nature to you through cinematic visuals, 3D audio and smart light integration, so you can benefit from it at all hours. Immerse yourself in different natural locations to elevate your senses and boost creativity.
Happify
This app uses games to boost your mood. The activities were developed with positive psychology techniques and CBT interventions.
Aura
Transform your wellbeing & sleep with this personalised, all-in-one app for mental wellness.
Catch it
Catch It is a joint project between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, to help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary.
MoodKit
MoodKit helps you to engage in mood-enhancing activities, identify and change unhealthy thinking, rate and chart mood across time, and create journal entries using custom templates designed to promote well-being.
My Possible Self
Clinically certified, the app features a wide array of tools to promote happiness, wellbeing and prevent day-to-day problems from holding users back. This includes an everyday ‘mood tracker’, learning modules, for a better understanding of what aspects of life are causing anxiety, alongside methods for how to reshape negative thoughts towards more positive ones.
Books
How To Listen: Tools For Opening Up Conversations When It Matters Most
From opening up a conversation with someone who might be struggling, to how to use gentle encouragement to help others share their stories, this book demonstrates the power of listening without judgement and draws on the extensive experience of Samaritans in offering practical advice to apply to your own life.
Happiness Trap
A ground breaking book that offers new techniques using mindfulness skills to enable you to experience and full and happy life and to overcome depression and anxiety.
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs.
Progress Over Perfection
With Progress Over Perfection, you’ll find the courage and the resolve to do what you want to do without having to compromise your plans to fit the pressures of everyday society.
We’re All Mad Here
Claire Eastham provides a very personal insight into her own experience of living with anxiety and the challenges she has faced through school, university and working life in a no holds barred, warts and all account. She shares some really useful tips and encouragement that many people living with anxiety, stress and anxiety-based depression will find extremely helpful.
No Such Thing As Normal
A practical guide to mental health from leading mental health campaigner and bestselling author, Bryony Gordon. Bryony offers sensible, practical advice, covering subjects such as sleep, addiction, worry, medication, self-image, boundary setting, therapy, learned behaviour, mindfulness and the power of walking and talking.
Ten Times Happier
Psychotherapist and former NHS Clinical Lead, Owen O'Kane uses his years of experience to help us look at our lives and happiness in a clear and practical way. This is a brilliant book of intelligent advice and detailed case studies that encourages reflection and positive change.
Living Better
Living Better is an honest, moving and life affirming account of Alastair Cambell's lifelong struggle with depression. It is an autobiographical, psychological and psychiatric study, which explores his own childhood, family and other relationships, and examines the impact of his professional and political life on himself and those around him.
Reasons To Stay Alive
This is the true story of how Matt triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive; A book about making the most of your time on earth.
UnFXck Your Brain
A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hellbent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Outer Order, Inner Calm
In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or a crowded wardrobe is a trivial problem - yet Gretchen Rubin found that getting control of our stuff makes us feel more in control of our lives.
Know Your Worth
Based on Anna Mathus' experience of tackling her own lack of self-esteem - and the ten years she has spent facilitating her therapy clients to do the same this book aims to help you recognise and appreciate your worth, grow in confidence and develop a new respect for yourself.
Good Vibes, Good Life
In this book, Vex King will show you that when you change the way you think, feel, speak and act, you begin to change the world.
Happy
Fearne Cotton draws on her own personal experiences in this simple, friendly and bestselling guide to finding happiness, featuring Fearne's charming hand drawn illustrations throughout.
Notes On A Nervous Planet
Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Ever wonder what your therapist is really thinking? Now you can find out … a hilarious, thought-provoking and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world.
You are a badass
Practical, funny, implementable advice and stories that will help you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change and how to change what you don't love.
Power Hour
Power Hour will show you how to harness the first hour of your day in order to achieve your goals - whether those are writing a book, getting fit or pursuing your passion - before the rest of the world wakes up and starts competing for your attention.
Hunger
Roxane Gray explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. This book is a deeply personal memoir telling a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.
Recovery
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health.
Kind Words for Unkind Days: A guide to surviving and thriving in difficult times
A practical pick-me-up for life's tough days, this book is a guide to help you feel happier, healthier and calmer.
The Power of Letting Go
In The Power of Letting Go, John Purkiss explains why we should let go and how we can do it, using proven techniques to make things happen.
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response
From acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind—and what we can do to overcome it.
Move the body, heal the mind
A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.
You, Happier
After studying more than 200,000 brain scans of people from 155 countries, Dr. Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets that influence happiness. In You, Happier, he explains them and offers practical, science-based strategies for optimizing your happiness.
Stressilient: How to beat stress and build resilience
As a clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience, Dr Sam draws from her own professional expertise to provide sensitive and realistic guidance to feel calmer, less stressed, and more resilient to life’s challenges.
From Strength to Strength
Happiness expert and bestselling author Arthur C. Brooks reveals a path to beating the “striver's curse.” Drawing on science, classical philosophy, theology, and history, he shares counterintuitive strategies for releasing old habits and forming new life practices
Bigger Than us
This book is for anyone seeking a path through our confusing lives and offers inspiration for tapping into the strength and comfort around us and releasing the blocks and insecurities that hold us back.
Documentaries
Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency
When Roman lost his best friend, he had no idea he was struggling. Now, he is searching for answers. Roman Kemp explores the mental health and suicide crisis affecting young men.
Dr Alex: Our Young Mental Health Crisis
Dr Alex George explores the wide range of mental health issues children and young people are facing, and finds out how projects funded by Children in Need are making a difference.
The Truth About: Improving Your Mental Health
Clinical psychologist Professor Tanya Byron teams up with former England footballer Alex Scott, who has suffered from depression, to discover how the latest science can help us gain greater control over our state of mind and improve our mental health and wellbeing.
Man Up
A mini series exploring what it means to be a man in today's world; covering topics of body image, masculinity and depression. It aims to get to the bottom of the male suicide crisis, effect real social change and hopefully even save lives.
The Student Mental Health Crisis
Reporter Hannah Price explores the cases of suspected student suicide since the pandemic, and finds out what’s being done to support student mental health at university.
Headspace: Guide To Meditation
Over the course of eight animated episodes, Andy Puddicombe—former Buddhist monk and co-founder of the globally beloved Headspace meditation app—takes viewers through the benefits and science behind meditation.
Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out
Little Mix star Jesy Nelson goes on a journey of rehabilitation as she opens up about abuse she has suffered at the hands of cyberbullies and its effects on her mental health.
Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death
A tribute to one of Britain's biggest TV stars, telling the story of Caroline Flack's life and the impact that fame, mental health issues, press and social media had on her.
Playing The Game: Garry O’connor
Garry candidly details his struggle with drugs, injuries and money, he provides a unique insight into the glitz, glamour and depression that has plagued his career, as well as the crazy world of high-level football.
Freddie Flintoff: Living With Bulimia
On an unflinching journey to tackle his secret eating disorder of 20 years, Freddie Flintoff meets sufferers and specialists to challenge the stigma around the condition in men.
Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay
In the film Olly joins young people on their journeys battling issues that parallel his own - from homophobic bullying to eating and anxiety disorders - and along the way he asks what can be done to address them.
HELPLINES
If you need someone to talk to, we offer free 24-hour services to help you through it.
Call 116 123 any time, day or night. Samaritans will face it with you and are here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.
Childline is a confidential free helpline for children and young people providing telephone counselling for any child with a problem.
