2021 Mental Fitness Diary from the Resilience Agenda
Readers might be aware that I have an interest in the topic of mental fitness. I talk about it on the blog and when I’m […]
Psychological Tools
Irrational beliefs
This article caught my attention a while back. It is called ‘The Academic Rational Beliefs Scale: Development, Validation and Implications for College Counsellors’ by Egan, […]
Awareness, connection, insight and purpose: critical components of wellbein...
Welcome to 2021 everyone! This year on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog, I really want to focus on digging into the published research on […]
Achieving the psychological state of flow
I sat down with Lauren, creator and star of the “Like A Boss’ series a while back to talk about how one prepares oneself for […]
The Self-care Mega Guide
Update 9/11/20: I continue to make adjustments and additions to our Self-care Mega Guide. At the moment I am adding ideas and content arising from […]
A decision making tool
I’m a big fan of the website Effectiviology. It contains articles that draw on research to help people think and reason more effectively. Today I […]
Mindful Meditation for Relaxation and Stress Relief
There have been some updates to the meditation sessions being run out of Oasis. I have included the new information in this post. Note: Wednesday […]
Tame your brain, leading into exams
I sat down with Lauren Butterworth, the eminently capable individual behind the Like A Boss series for a video chat the other day. We covered […]
What is an exam wrapper and how might it improve your performance?
Each year when I repost the ‘Preparing for Exam Series’ I like to do a quick search of the literature to find new psychological concepts […]
Take a self-compassion break
I’ve spoken about self-compassion previously, including an exercise to help build self-compassion (self-compassionate letter). You can also find self-compassion exercises on sites like Greater Good […]
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Mental Fitness has become a pet topic of mine. I think about it and write about it a lot. That thinking and writing culminated in […]