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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.

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.

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

Headspace

Headspace’s meditation resources can be thought of as your mind’s best friend, making good days your new normal.

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.

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.

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.

Podcasts

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.