Happy

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

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.

Happify

This app uses games to boost your mood. The activities were developed with positive psychology techniques and CBT interventions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.