Stressed

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.

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.

Headspace

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Podcasts

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.