App-Solute Wellbeing

You can download recommended third party Apps and Podcasts to your phone or tablet.

There are a number of free or low cost Apps available for iPhone or Android.

App NameLinkDescription
Calm HarmHome - Calm Harm AppThis is a free app to help you manage the urge to self-harm.
Mindshift CBTMindShift® CBT App - Anxiety CanadaThis app uses proven strategies based on CBT to help you manage your anxiety.
ForestForest (forestapp.cc)Productivity app to help you focus for set periods of time and minimise iphone/android distraction. While you're working and your phone is not engaged, you have the opportunity to grow your own tree (and overtime a forest).
Loneliness (video)Loneliness - YouTubeEverybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors - and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it? [Length: 12:29]
The Secure Relationship (Instagram):https://www.instagram.com/  @thesecurerelationship (Dr Julie Menanno)Offering insight and information on characteristics, strategies and tools that inform healthy relationships, attachment and communication styles.
Insight TimerInsight Timer - #1 Free Meditation App for Sleep, Relax & MoreMeditation app for sleep, stress and anxiety
SleepioSleepio | Can't sleep? Get to sleep and stay asleep without pills or potionsA sleep improvement program based on CBT.

Podcasts

Podcast NameLinkDescription
Griefcast - Cariad LloydGriefcastGriefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it's cheerier than it sounds.
How to Fail - Elizabeth DayHow to Fail 

How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things in life that haven’t gone right and what we might learn from them along the way. Every week, Elizabeth’s guest explores three failures, and what these failures have taught them about how to grow and succeed, better.

To access this podcast click on Listen on Amazon Music. You don’t need to have an Amazon account to listen

Terrible, Thanks for Asking With Nora McIneryTerrible, Thanks for AskingIt’s a show that makes space for how it really feels to go through the hard things in life, and a community of people who get it.
Your Amazing Mind PodcastYour Amazing Mind - 18SixtyA mental health podcast for students from the University of Bristol. Despite only having 7 episodes, it touches compassionately on some of the most common mental health issues and situations that students experience (ie. Anxiety, body image, grief, inequalities…). Each episode offers a conversation between a student (personal account), a therapist (Deputy Head of Student Counselling Services @ Bristol) and a guest contributor/expert in the field of issue.