Hi all,

Below are some useful apps and websites that people will hopefully find useful. Thanks to Monica Quealey for pulling this list together. If anyone has other ideas / thoughts please feel free to comment on our Facebook page. Keep communicating !

Useful Apps and Websites for Helping Maintain a Healthy Mental State

Meditations

1. Calm (App) – guided mediation (including 7 day courses on calming anxiety, managing stress), sleep stories, body scans. ( I can personally recommend this one).
1. Free to download – selected meditations free
2. Calm Premium subscription, 7-day free trial
2. Headspace (App) – also guided meditations, animations, emergency meditations, sleep sounds, meditations for children
1. Limited meditations free
2. One month free trial available
3. Smiling Mind (App) – developed by psychologists and teachers
1. Free, no extra in-app purchases
2. Various meditation programmes for all ages
3. Differing lengths
4. Aura(App) - personalized meditations for example for stress, sleep, concentration
5. Podcasts for your well-being
1. Free podcasts and visualizations
2. These can be found at https://mentalhealth.org.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts-for-your-wellbeing

Breathing

1. Relax (App) – stress and anxiety relief
1. €3.49
2. This app uses music as a way of controlling breathing
3. Contains structured courses
2. Breathe2Realx (App)
1. Guidance through sound breathing exercises
2. Free

Exercise

1. Down Dog ( Search for Down Dog and there are various apps)
1. Yoga, HIIT, 7 minute workouts and barre workouts
2. Free app download and in-app purchases until May 1st due to current Covid Crisis
2. 7m workout
1. Free app with different 7 minute workouts from beginners to more advanced
3. Run keeper
1. Free app for recording runs, walks and cycles
4. Nike Run Club
1. Free app for runners, records runs and helps aid with training plans

Just to add a few more options to this list that may be useful for people right now:

1. Turn2me.ie – they have free online support groups and other tools for managing mental health such as thought journals – also paid 1-1 counselling.
2. Aware – they are starting a new Life Skills Online programme on April 8th – people can express interest now.
3. Grow – they have launched a six week online guide to cope with Covid – 19 – no need to register – includes articles, a podcast, suggested tasks, recipes etc. Week 1 is up this week.
4. Online education – MOOC courses are massive online open courses provided by universities – you can explore options at www.mooc-list.com – varying level of difficulty. Another option is www.ecollege.ie for mainly tech online courses.
5. This is a list of free online resources here of resources fo education/wellbeing/entertainment www.covid19.shanehastings.eu