MENTAL FITNESS
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Got Your Back
The Got Your Back app is a great place to create a personalized safety plan for when you may not be feeling okay. It's okay to not feel okay; we've got your back!
Download your app for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play
HOW WE Feel
How We Feel is a free app developed by The How We Feel Project, a nonprofit organization created by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists to help everyone better understand their own emotions. The scientific team is led by Dr. Marc Brackett at the Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence. The Center offers training to schools to help educators, students, and their families better understand and manage emotions. To learn more, visit rulerapproach.org or read Dr. Brackett‘s book, Permission to Feel.
HAPPIFY
Happify is a fun, engaging, and highly interactive site that puts your well-being in your own hands. This personal growth app gives users a wide variety of tracks, articles, meditations, and games, each of which deliberately helps create more happiness with both internal and external life experiences.
Learn more at: www.happify.com
CALM
Calm.com and the Calm App are #1 for relaxation, mediation, and sleep. Their founders mission is to make the world happier and healthier through meditation, music, body movement, mindfulness, and relaxation training through imagery.
HEADSPACE
Headspace helps listeners develop mindfulness through guided meditations. Meditation has been shown to help people stress less, focus more, and sleep better. The app has sessions for every age.
Learn more at www.headspace.com
Healthy Minds
The ground-breaking Healthy Minds Program uses neuroscience, contemplative traditions, and skill-based learning methods to help you develop the skills for a healthy mind, now in the palm of your hand. Translating pioneering neuroscience into tools for everyday life, our unique framework guides you through four pillars of the science of training the mind: Awareness, Connection, Insight, Purpose.
Download your app for FREE today at https://hminnovations.org/meditation-app
Find A Calm Place
Are you mind full or mindful? Press pause to reset yourself to the present. Simple breathing exercises, relaxing videos, and guided meditations can help us take a brain break to refocus on the here and now.
THE MIGHTY
The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing mental and physical health challenges and disabilities. The app is best for people in high school and older.
Learn more at: www.themighty.com
3 GOOD THINGS
Three Good Things is a very simple, free journal app that lets you record three positive experiences every day. Regularly taking time to focus on gratitude has been shown to increase happiness over time.
DAYLIO
Daylio is an easy-to-use app that allows you to track your moods and daily activities. The goal of measuring your mood is to see what influences your life the most. By knowing what has the most influence on our happiness, we can focus our attention on improving that aspect of our lives.
7 Joyful activities
This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here.
WOEBOT
Woebot is your very own AI coach who chats with you and offers insights and skills to help you grow into your best self. Woebot checks in with you daily and guides you through practical techniques based on tried & tested therapy approaches.