Apps to help realign your wellness
Wellness is multidimensional and comes in all shapes and sizes. So it’s important to reflect and get to the root of our feelings. Whether that’s stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or burn out — we need to pay more attention to our wellbeing needs.
Based on the pillars of wellness (physical, environmental, mental, emotional and social) we’ve selected some apps that will help you create balance, realign your focus and help you take time from your busy world.
Physical and environmental wellbeing
A healthy body through exercise, nutrition, sleep, etc.
Find What Feels Good- Yoga with Adriene
Adriene is pretty well known within the wellbeing online community as achieving one of the best yoga YouTube channels. Adriene’s setup is authentic and invites us into a comfortable home through her casual chit-chat and goofy humour. Not to mention her sidekick Benji (her dog) who brings us back down to earth and reminds us to be patient around obstacles within our lives.
The app offers yoga practices based on your ability and what intensity level you’re feeling. It’s practical for at home when you have or don’t have the time.
Namaste.
Breakup Shakeup
Breakups suck, let’s face it, but sometimes it’s for the best. Sometimes you’ll feel alone, sad, bored, or that you’ve lost that adventurous spark.
Breakup Shakeup gives you cool ideas about getting back on the horse. These adventure challenges might be getting out in the fresh air, letting your hair down, or feeling the sand between your toes.
It doesn’t just have to be outdoorsy — it can be taking a bus or visiting a city. You can introduce a friend and invite them along to your activities. You can rate your mood, get creative, get help, feel different and lots more.
Mental balance
Engagement with the world through learning, problem-solving, creativity, etc.
Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind offers plenty of programs and sessions to be able to check-in with yourself and keep track of your development. The programs offer a variety of where our wellness might need a bit more attention like a digital detox, work, school, sleep, children, etc.
Some of the programs might focus on a five-minute session to revaluate your thoughts. Or you might like to try a 21-night sleep program, designed to improve your regular sleep. This meditation has proved to help manage stress, resilience, anxiety and achieve a general healthy headspace.
Emotional wellbeing
Being in touch with, aware of, accepting of, and able to express one’s feelings (and those of others).
MoodMission
MoodMission allows users to understand their moods and apply different methods of coping. The app was created by Australian mental health professionals, focusing on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
It provides a lot of techniques based on the mood you’ve chosen and recommends missions for you to achieve. This might be things that you might not deem as important, like cleaning your room or simple self-care.
Through the emphasis on educating the users, the app encourages wellness through effective methods of managing depression, anxiety or low moods.
MoodKit
MoodKit uses cognitive behaviour therapy techniques to strengthen your thinking styles and take control of unwanted thought habits. The app is subdivided into four main sections: Activities, Thoughts, Mood and Journal.
Getting into the rhythm of using the app regularly is the hardest part, but it’s worth it. The challenges and thought-provoking exercises are based on evidence from practices designed to improve overall wellness.
You need to find time to explore your mind and relieve that through engaging with the categories offered. It’s a great way to track your progress especially if you’re keeping up to date with journal entries and activities.
Socially connecting
Connecting with, interacting with and contributing to other people and our communities.
The Check-in by Beyond Blue
The Check-in is an app designed by Beyond Blue, an Australian non-profit organisation. Beyond Blue has been educating and supporting Australians with mental health since 2000. The app aims to help ignite an unnerving and uncomfortable conversation about a mate or family member’s mental health.
The Check-in provides tips and suggestions for touching base with them, giving you the confidence to offer your support. The app guides you through how to approach the topic of mental health, the questions you could ask, and how to respond if they engage or reject your help. It also lends a hand if you’re going through your own stuff too.
Side note: I have friends using this a point to check in with mates that aren’t comfortable with open conversations about mental health, and it also seems to work well with people outside of the friendship spectrum too.
These apps might help find simple ways to dial back the excess strain we don’t need to be lugging around. We can turn back the clock, nourish our soul and prioritise the important things we neglect.
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