Resources

Calm: A meditation, sleep, and relaxation app that offers a variety of content to help users feel better. The app is designed for all levels, from beginners to experts, and is available on iOS, Android, and desktop.

Headspace: An evidence-based app that offers guided meditations and mindfulness exercises to help users reduce stress, improve their mental health, and sleep better. Available for iOS, Android, and desktop.

Moodfit: A free mental health app that uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help users improve their mood and mental health. Available on iOS and Android.

Talkspace: An online platform that offers text and video chat therapy with licensed therapists who can help with a wide range of mental health concerns. 

Stay Quit Coach 2.0: A free app by the National Center for PTSD at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help people quit or reduce their use of tobacco products. Available for iOS and Android.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin: Gretchen Rubin, author of happiness bestsellers, teams up with her sister Elizabeth for this podcast on happiness and habits. Expect practical tips, interviews, and bite-sized happiness boosters in every episode.

Meditation Minis: This award-winning meditation podcast by Hypnotherapist Chel Hamilton offers short guided meditations (10 minutes or less!) to help you manage anxiety, negativity, and boost confidence.

TED Radio Hour: This podcast and radio show dives deep into thought-provoking ideas with TED Talks, interviews, and soundscapes. Hosted by Manoush Zomorodi, each episode tackles a big theme like happiness, sparking curiosity about the world and ourselves. 

Being Your Most Healthy Self: The speaker introduces the concept of wellness as a multi-dimensional process of making choices towards a healthy and fulfilling life. The seven aspects of wellness are spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, and financial. Each dimension is crucial to maintain a healthy and fulfilling life. The session also provides resources for students who may need help with their wellness. 

Mindful Choosing (Addiction Awareness): This presentation explains how disconnection can lead to addiction. The speaker discusses drugs and their effects, highlighting how the pandemic worsened substance use. Mindful Choosing is introduced as a technique to help people be more aware of their feelings and make better choices, especially regarding substances. It concludes with a mindfulness activity to reduce stress and promote positive choices. 

Mindfulness: The speakers discuss what mindfulness is and how it can be used to reduce stress. They also lead the participants through several mindfulness exercises, including belly breathing, mindful eating, mindful movement, and a five-sense exercise. Finally, they discuss some additional mindfulness tools, such as glitter jars and breathing balls.

More Than Mud Masks: Developing Effective Self Care Strategies: This is a presentation on self-care. The speaker debunks some myths about self-care and explains its benefits. They also provide tips for identifying when you need self-care and how to practice it. 

Resiliency, Adaptation and Flexibility: The speaker defines resilience as a process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences. This presentation covers the four key areas of resiliency: social connections, self-care, cognitive style, and life skills. The speaker also provides tips on how to build resilience, such as learning coping skills, adjusting your thought process, focusing on physical wellness, and building connections.

Self-Care Routines for your Mental Health: This presentation explores self-care, dismantling common misconceptions and highlighting its advantages. It offers guidance on recognizing when self-care is necessary and suggests practical methods for incorporating it into your life.

Self-Empowerment: Recognize Your Strengths: This presentation focuses on self-empowerment and how to achieve it by understanding your strengths and weaknesses. 

Solving Conflicts, Exploring Resolutions: The speaker focuses on how to shift your perspective from blaming people to focusing on solving the problem. 

Victory of Anxiety: This presentation tackles managing anxiety, explaining its differences from fear and offering methods like CBT. It explores anxiety's symptoms and unhelpful thinking, teaching techniques to challenge them. Mindfulness and relaxation are also covered as helpful tools.