Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety & Worry
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Videos
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Sleep and mental health | Becca’s Mental Health Story
In this video from Mind, the UK mental health charity, Becca shares her personal experience of how s...
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What to do with Anxiety in Your Body
This video teaches practical techniques to calm physical symptoms of anxiety, helping you break the...
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Practical Tips for Anxiety & Wellbeing
Hosted on the YoungMinds UK channel (a leading UK youth mental health charity), this video focuses o...
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Don’t Worry, Everything is Out of Control
This video explores Taoist philosophy as an antidote to modern stress and hypervigilance, encouragin...
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Chronic Stress, Anxiety? - You Are Your Best Doctor!
Dr Bal Pawa shares her experience of discovering the importance of the mind–body connection after an...
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Anxiety
Consultant psychiatrist Lynne Drummond explains what anxiety is, why it can become overwhelming, and...
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How to deal with unhelpful thoughts
This NHS video discusses self-help strategies for unhelpful thinking, a core part of overthinking an...
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OCD
Georgina Krebs talks about obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and tackles questions like 'when does...
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Social anxiety and finding a community you can thrive in
This video features a young person sharing their experience with social anxiety and how connecting w...
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Managing Panic Attack Symptoms
This is a Mind UK video featuring a GP (Khyber) explaining panic attack symptoms — including why pan...
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Anxiety | Talking about mental health
This Mind UK video features several people talking about what it’s like to live with anxiety and wha...
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Intrusive Thoughts Explained
This video from OCD Action, a UK charity specialising in obsessive–compulsive disorder, explains wha...
Podcasts
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Working with Your Parts: Complex PTSD, Dissociation, and Hypervigilance
Somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira explores how somatic and Internal Family Systems approaches hel...
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How to Calm Your Inner Storm — A Guided Meditation to Tame Restlessnes
As part of Meditation Monday, Zen Master Henry Shukman guides a short meditation that trains listene...
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Six troublesome thoughts and how to respond
This podcast by Oxford University focuses on the "C" of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), looking...
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Let's Talk About... Catastrophising
The episode explains how catastrophic thinking and black-and-white cognition fuel anxiety, and teach...
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Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) - Faisal's story
Faisal explains why he didn't feel able to talk to friends and family when he first started experien...
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Letting Go of Rumination / Ruminating on the Past
Focuses on how rumination feels and why persistent, repetitive thinking keeps you stuck Offers acces...
Helpful tools
Mindful practice
Mood Journal
Write down what is going on so it feels less tangled. 5-10 min
Mindful practice
Grateful Moments
Notice what is good and let it land for a moment. 5 min
Guided exercise
Calming Breathing
Slow the breath and create a small pocket of calm. 3-5 min
Mindful practice
Self-Compassion
Respond to yourself with more kindness. 5-10 min
Guided exercise
Easing Tension
Release built-up tension and reconnect with the body. 10 min
Mindful practice
