Resource Category: Well-being, mental health and coping

Thriving in Action

A holistic resilience resource. It integrates health promotion, and multidimensional well being with academic skill-building.

Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four steps to stop being so hard on ourselves.

Author: Tara Brach Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves. To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion. The acronym RAIN, first coined about 20 years ago by Michele McDonald, is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing […]

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.

Brené Brown on Empathy

In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

The Revised ABC’s of Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)

Author: Albert Ellis Cognition, emotions, and behaviors include and affect one another, and can combine into dysfunctional philosophic assumptions that lead to neurotic disturbances. Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET), described in this resource, tries to help clients to make a philosophic change. View Article

Shift-and-Persist” Strategies: Why Low Socioeconomic Status Isn’t Always Bad for Health

Some individuals, despite facing recurrent, severe adversities in life such as low socioeconomic status (SES), are nonetheless able to maintain good physical health. This article explores why these individuals deviate from the expected association of low SES and poor health and outlines a “shift-and-persist” model to explain the psychobiological mechanisms involved.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace

Author: Glover Tawwab, N. This book provides an excellent introduction to boundaries. It offers information on how to set and assertively communicate boundaries, suggestions for those who need support in accepting others’ boundaries, and a helpful chapter on boundaries at work. View Book

Rewordify

Author: Rewordify A ‘translating’ website that simplifies murky, convoluted texts into plain language. This website can help students through confusing or difficult text. View Website

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