Insight Timer - #1 Free Meditation App for Sleep, Relax & More
Free guided daily meditations for sleep, anxiety, and stress.
MindShift CBT - Anxiety Relief on the App Store (apple.com)
An evidence-based anxiety management app, MindShift CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Woebot - Relational Agent for Mental Health | Woebot Health
Grounded in clinical research and powered by AI, Woebot is easy to talk to and fits right into your life, whenever you want to chat.
HealthyMinds App | Presented by The Royal
HealthyMinds is a problem-solving tool to help deal with emotions and cope with the stresses you encounter both on and off campus. The goal: Keeping your mind healthy.
Recovery Record - Best Practice for Eating Disorders Treatment is the smart companion for managing your journey to recovery from eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obsessive eating disorder, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and compulsive eating disorder.
Quitzilla is a habit tracker that can help you get your life back on track. It's a habit-breaker app that aims to help users overcome self-harming or addictive behaviour and stop bad habits.
The LifeLine App offers access and guidance to support for those suffering in crisis and those who have suffered the devastating loss of a loved one from suicide. The LifeLine App also provides awareness education and prevention strategies to guide people in crisis all across the globe.
National Council on Aging (NCOA)
While many people understand that sleep can be vital to our overall health, they may not realize is that our consumption of common substances like caffeine, sugar, or alcohol can disrupt our sleep and impact our health. The NCOA resource Substances and Sleep discusses the relationship, and offers a downloadable PDF sleep diary and substance tracker.
These short videos can help you develop strategies to cope with stressful situations or negative thoughts.
Calming Technique
The 5-4-3-2-1 Method: A Grounding Exercise to Manage Anxiety
Mindfulness of Emotions
Mindfulness of Current Emotions
Learn about this DBT (dialectical behaviour therapy) skill. (3m 40s)
The Sushi Train metaphor offers a great tool for unhooking from difficult or unhelpful thoughts. (2m 9s)
Paced Breathing with MML teaches you this simple skill, which will help you reduce your anxiety. (2m 33s)
How to make stress your friend | Kelly McGonigal - YouTube
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others. (14m 28s)
DBT Videos
Best Free DBT Skills Videos
This site has lots of great videos focusing on dialectical behaviour therapy. The main goals of DBT are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.
This free and confidential service is available by phone in more than 150 languages and is available 24/7/365 by dialing 2-1-1 or by searching the website. Alternatively, contact 211 Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. by emailing help@pe.211.ca. You can also text 211 Monday to Friday 9 a.m. 4 p.m.
If you are experiencing active thoughts of suicide or another mental health crisis, please call 911, visit the nearest emergency department, or contact:
Student Wellness Program
www.studentbenefits.ca
Tel: 1-833-549-3281
Book an appointment with a Holland College counsellor here.
