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 Name Link Description
Calm Harm Home - Calm Harm App This is a free app to help you manage the urge to self-harm.
Mindshift CBT MindShift® CBT App - Anxiety Canada This app uses proven strategies based on CBT to help you manage your anxiety.
Equoo Conquer Anxiety with eQuoo | Equoo Game

An evidence-based game of emotional  health and resilience building, “combining the power of psychology, gamification, and interactive storytelling.”  Great app for those who may struggle to engage with some of the more traditional app platforms.

Forest Forest (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 - YouTube Everybody 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 Timer Insight Timer - #1 Free Meditation App for Sleep, Relax & More Meditation app for sleep, stress and anxiety
Sleepio Sleepio | Can't sleep? Get to sleep and stay asleep without pills or potions A sleep improvement program based on CBT.

Podcasts

Podcast Name Link Description
Griefcast - Cariad Lloyd Griefcast Griefcast 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 Podcast Your Amazing Mind - 18Sixty A 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.
Sleep with Me Podcast - The Podcast That Puts You To Sleep Sleep with me: Help falling asleep The podcast that puts you to sleep. It's done with a bedtime story.

 

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