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.
Stay Alive
This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
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.
Headspace
Headspace’s meditation resources can be thought of as your mind’s best friend, making good days your new normal.
Books
Recovery
A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery
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.
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.
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.
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
Mindfulness In Eight Weeks
A revolutionary 8 week plan to clear your mind and calm your life, including meditation instruction to support 20 minutes of home practice per day.
The Happiness Lab
This podcast will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.
Ten Percent Happier
Dan Harris talks with eminent meditation teachers, top scientists and covers subjects such as enlightenment and psychedelics.
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