Mindmax

Mindmax is an app to maximise well-being and resilience and create a community of fit minds.  Users are guided through the same wellbeing training undertaken by AFL players, to help them perform at their best.  The app includes easy to use, bit-sized, dynamic training sessions, games and social sharing.  It was developed by a range of collaborators, include AFL, Cricket Players Association, Qld University of Technology, University of Sydney, and RUOK? 

Supporting children through drought

The long-term nature of drought can wear on even the toughest individuals. Just like adults, children can be impacted by the stress that drought can cause, particularly when it comes to worries in the family.
But, there are some simple strategies that parents and carers can use to help. This series of eight podcasts, we hear from parents, practitioners and community members about practical ways that they have supported children’s mental health during drought.

Balance Minder

With an in-depth look at the affects connection has to a persons health and wellbeing. Tribe Talks collaborate with community leaders and discuss the importance of connection for themselves and the different organisations they represent. Giving you items for yo to use and share with your tribe!

The Allen Adventure

Could your kids use some help to managing emotions right now?

The Allen Adventure app is a fun, interactive story where children are able to choose how to respond to different situations faced by the main character who is an alien from another planet. The story moves through different scenarios faced by young children such as being over-excited, mean, prickly or angry. As well as the main storyline, the app includes mini-games such as matching facial expressions and body language displayed by different characters to their emotions.

Take A Stand Together

Take A Stand Together is an anti-bullying app that can be used by children experiencing or witnessing bullying. The app goes through different scenarios and situations that many kids have experienced and shows them how to handle the situation and the varying levels of action that can be taken. Children are also required to build an avatar to make the game more fun and appealing.

Recovery Record

The Recovery Record (Reachout Australia) app helps people to manage their journey to recovery from eating disorders. You can monitor your progress, receive affirmations, set personalised reminders and use other self-help activities. The app also links clinicians and others to track progress and easily contact their patient.

ReachOut WorryTime 

The Worry Time app from ReachOut allows your teenager to set time aside to deal with their anxiety. When they notice themselves worrying about something, they can add it to Worry Time and move on with their day. These worries can then be revisited and reviewed at a later time and they can delete the ones that no longer matter. Reachout Worry Time applies cognitive techniques, designed to assist with anxiety and stress used by health and wellbeing practitioners.

Mindshift

The Mindshift app helps you tackle anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic and conflict. It includes cognitive-based tools, quick relief, a thought journal, coping cards, belief to face fears, expanding your comfort zone, a chill zone, regular check-ins, healthy habits to follow and goal setting.

Smiling Mind

Is your mind racing with everything that’s happening in our world at the moment? Need to find some space to think clearly?

Smiling Mind is meditation made easy. It’s a free, unique tool developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to your life. You can practice your daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from any device. They suggest just 10 minutes a day.

It now also includes a program called Thrive Inside – a special COVID-19 initiative to help you keep calm and healthy while you’re staying at home. Check it out at https://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-app

Calm 

Calm is a guided meditation app to help reduce stress and enhance wellbeing. The 7-step program teaches you how to meditate, with adjustable nature scenes and relaxing music tracks. Sessions range from 2 to 30 minutes on the topics of focus, creativity, energy, confidence, sleep and more

Stop, Breathe and Think

This free app helps you to learn to meditate, outlines the benefits and explains the neuroscience that underpins its effectiveness. It invites you to rate how you’re feeling each time you start the app, the recommends meditations, mindful walks or other videos that will match how you feel. Check out the ‘All Sessions’ section to find all the free meditations.

TUF Minds

TUF Minds will help you help yourself and others. You can learn signs of suicide to look for, the questions to ask and the steps to take to help save a life. It also includes:

• Suicide Intervention and Positive Mindfulness Cognition Video Modules presented by Drs John and Elizabeth McIntosh
• Guided Mindfulness Audios about stress, anxiety, depression, relaxation and other topics
• Information channels for overall better health and wellbeing

Superbetter

Now you can play games and improve your mental health at the same time.
Superbetter is an app for people with depression, anxiety, or chronic pain and builds your resilience. You decide what you want to achieve from the app so this can then be used to serve you specifically. The app uses different types of achievable goals and includes other activities that aid in nutrition, social interaction, exercise and mental resilience with level ups to make the game more interesting/fun. These tasks are formulated into goals and games to make the app more interactive. ‘Powerups’ are positive things or activities such as walking around the block that boost confidence and make you happy. ‘Bad Guys’ are negative habits such as drinking coffee that set back the progress of the user. Superbetter is available on the app store for free.

Free Audible Books 

Free Audible Books has opened its collection of kids’ books to be freely streamed on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. There are hundreds of stories for little kids, elementary readers, tweens and teenagers, with a range of genres and six languages. Kids will find them very easy to access and download. Check them out at https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

The Shed Wireless

The Shed Wireless is a weekly podcast brought to you by The Australian Men’s Shed Association with weekly podcasts. They will cover details and discoveries all things Men’s Sheds and other interesting stuff. The Shed Wireless is available through the Men’s Shed website.

Not Alone with Marc Fennell

There are so many different stories when it comes to mental health and there is always others people going through it too. A podcast brought to you by Beyond Blue, where mental health journey’s are highlight by everyday Australians that can help you with yours! Not Alone is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.

You Can (Emily Skye)

Emily Skye is a leading Australian fitness icon. In her podcasts, she explores a wide range of topics from beauty, mental health and business to relationships, life as a Mum and social media. The length of each podcast ranges from anywhere between 40 minutes to an hour. These podcasts are available online on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Podtail.

Crappy to Happy

Cass Dunn is a clinical psychologist who chats with inspiring guests to help listeners understand the reasons as to why they may not be performing their best. Crappy to Happy is a podcast for people who have low level of motivation, energy and mood. The podcast enables listeners to make changes in their lives to build confidence, happiness and energy. Popular topics include escaping the cult of “busy”, overcoming emotional eating, taming self-criticism and perfectionism, achieving goals and ending self-sabotage. Crappy to Happy is available on Podcast One Australia and Apple Podcast.

The Howie Games

Mark Howard is a sports journalist who speaks one-on-one with some of the biggest names of the sporting world. The Howie Games is the #1 Australian sports podcast and opens up the real stories behind the headlines and talks with famous sportsmen and women about their journey into their profession, how they take their wins and losses and how they take on sport and life. The Howie Games is available on Podcast One Australia and Apple Podcast.