Sad

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.

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.

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.

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.

Books

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.