WHAT CAN HELP
We have selected some resources from our Mindful Toolkit which
we feel could help and recommend exploring them in your own time.
Apps
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.
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.
Ten Percent Happier
Ten Percent Happier provides guided meditations, videos, talks and sleep content that will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice.
Books
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Podcasts
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
This podcast is the safe space for everyone with mental health struggles, from minor to major.
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.
GriefCast
A podcast examining the human experience of grief and death - but with different comedians each week, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.
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