Updated: Dec 15, 2020
If you’d like to explore some practical tips for dealing with anxiety, try the NHS Every Mind Matters website. It provides step by step instructions on techniques which can alleviate an anxious frame of mind. There are also short videos which focus on helpful ways to challenge anxious thoughts & reframe them in a more positive, constructive way.
Yale University’s popular Science of Wellbeing Course is among a whole range of personal development courses the university is currently offering free of charge online.
The course aims to engage participants in a series of challenges designed to increase their sense of happiness. It is informed by the latest scientific research on how we can build more productive habits which support our mental wellbeing.
Michaela has just enrolled on the course herself and completed her first week of the ten week programme. The course places emphasis on practical strategies and self-reflection. Follow the link below:
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the constant barrage of bad news in the media then take a break by paying a visit to the Something Positive website.
It focuses exclusively on the hundreds of selfless and often inspirational acts which are happening around the world right now, providing links to ‘enlightening coronavirus news updates’.
Recent good news stories include: billionaires donating huge amounts of money to help scientists find a cure for the virus; restaurants delivering 15,000kg of food to various charities; the Welsh postman who wears a different fancy dress costume each day to cheer up his customers.
