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Explore 16 trusted self-help resources recommended by mental health therapists to support your well-being. From managing anxiety to improving sleep and understanding OCD, these practical tools offer personalized strategies for mental health care. Discover how to navigate your journey with small, consistent steps for lasting emotional resilience.

Loving someone with OCD is tough. You want to ease their anxiety—but what if your support is accidentally making things worse? Learn how to help without reinforcing compulsions, and why setting kind boundaries matters.

Understand the key differences between Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) for better diagnosis and treatme

Learn about intrusive thoughts with the beach ball metaphor. Accept, hold lightly, and reduce their impact for greater mental clarity.

Uncover the realities of misophonia: triggers, emotional challenges, and coping strategies. Learn how to better understand and support those

Cognitive Shuffling might be the sleep strategy you've been missing—calm your mind and sleep better with this simple technique.

Why do we absorb other people's stress and anxiety? Learn about vicarious anxiety and how it impacts our mental health.

Unveiling Perfectionism: Exploring Its Impact on Your Mental Health and Wellbeing Does your mind ever tell you the story that nothing you...

Sometimes we may find that memories of distressing experiences can linger and, in doing so, continue causing us distress long after the...

Unveiling the Perils of People-Pleasing: Navigating Life's Pressures in Pursuit of Authenticity Do you find yourself agreeing to take on...

Have you ever felt like a fraud in your own successes? Perhaps you were sitting in a room full of accomplished individuals and were...

Tips and strategies for finding calm and well-being during the menopause

Struggling with glass-half-empty thinking? Discover what mental filtering is, why your brain focuses on the negative, and how to retrain your thoughts with self-kindness and practical CBT tools.

Overgeneralising and assuming the worst fuels anxiety and hopelessness, especially during chronic stress. Learn what overgeneralising is, why it happens, and how to stop negative thought patterns before they spiral.

Discover what Black and White Thinking is, why it's so common, and how to shift toward a more flexible mindset using practical, compassionate CBT tools.

Human beings have been walking around on this planet for millennia and for the majority of that time we lived without all the technology...

Struggling with self-criticism and anxiety? Discover how harsh self-talk fuels the cycle—and learn practical ways to break free and build self-compassion.

Struggling with overthinking? Discover practical CBT strategies, self-help tools, and expert insights to calm your racing mind and break free from mental loops.

In an earlier post I introduced you to a flowchart that you can use to help process worries. Another popular tool in Cognitive...

We all worry at times, but if you find that your worry is taking over and getting in the way of enjoying life then you need some...