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.
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.
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.

 

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