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Online resources in uncertain times
There are so many free online resources for looking after yourself during these strange times. Here are just a handful to get you started…
Making sleep a priority
We know that many people have been struggling to sleep during the pandemic and so we commissioned ex-CADAS youth worker and freelance yoga instructor (among other things), Jacqui Wallace, to make a video especially for us about the importance of sleep and how to maximise it. It’s 45min long and includes a guided yoga nidra (which Jacqui describes as halfway between being asleep and awake – also known as yogic sleep). It’s exclusively available to visitors to our website and you lucky people can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viur89EfiT4
A guide to looking after yourself and others
Great booklet packed with practical tips on how to manage wellbeing – from coping with stress to working from home, from keeping children safe to structuring your day – during the pandemic, produced by Every Life Matters.
Wellbeing and mental health during COV-19
Advice for supporting young people’s mental health (during disruption)
Free advice for young and people and for parents and carers from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families – videos, free resources, activities and more.
https://www.annafreud.org/what-we-do/anna-freud-learning-network/coronavirus/
Free tapping meditations
At CADAS we’ve been using tapping, and training our clients in using tapping, for years. It’s a great way to manage your stress and this free-to-install app has some short tapping meditations to use with all the family.
Together We
Janine Ward at Together We (in Workington) was self-isolating pretty early on and she’s made some basic videos about looking after yourself and your mental health during the pandemic.
http://www.togetherwe.co.uk/talkonline/
Calm
Calm is a web app that provides a relaxing meditation right in your browser. You can use this to relieve pent-up stress during the day and increase productivity while working. Calm will provide you with soothing images, sound and instructions for two, ten, or twenty-minute sessions.
https://www.calm.com/blog/about
Countrystride
Just a chatty kind of ‘Down Your Way’-style podcast by a former farmer and guidebook writer from Castle Carrock about our local landscapes if you’re missing being ‘out there’.
https://www.countrystride.co.uk/
iCan Fitness at Home
Subscribe to fitness videos at home, recorded at iCan Fitness in Carlisle, for only £10 a year.
