Mindfulness for Academic Success - July/Aug 2021
Just got notice from Maureen that Mindfulness for Academic Success is running again in July This very popular program teaches mindfulness principles in the context […]
Psychological Tools
When adding wellbeing activities to our life feels like just another chore
At last night’s Be Well Plan session, a dominant theme was the challenge of building wellbeing activities into one’s life when one’s life is already […]
10 pieces of advice for PhD students (which are probably ok for other stude...
I was fortunate the other day to spend 90 minutes with some relatively new PhD students talking about mental health. I must have enjoyed it […]
Two methods for dealing with negative self-talk
You know that brain of yours that does a whole lot of remarkable things (learning, sensing, problem-solving, loving, motivating etc)? Well it ain’t perfect. I […]
Can't find the right word to describe how you are feeling?
Just finished reading an article called “Measures of Emotion: A review”. My hats off to the authors (Mauss & Robinson, 2009) for their succinctness of […]
Mental Fitness Community - sign up!
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 […]
Mindfulness Daily on Insight Timer
I am currently using the hour before bed for meditation/relaxation. I was previously just using it for random YouTube watching. In that time I typically […]
Your personal rules and beliefs shape your wellbeing
We all have personal rules and beliefs about how the world works. They shape how we think about ourselves, other people, and our purpose in […]
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 […]
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 […]