Supporting My Own Wellbeing
With so much of our focus being on the young people we support, our own mental wellbeing can find itself towards the end of the list of our priorities. So how do we may time to pay attention and recognise when things are maybe not as they should be? Here’s a list of articles by the Headstrong Team and our partners Mind & Soul Foundation to help.
What You Need To Know
Autumn and Endorphins
Subversive Rest
Do we have a distorted vision of rest? Will Van Der Hart explores the question
Do I need Grief Counselling?
How can we tell when we need more help around processing a loss we've experienced?
On Trust
Trust can be fragile, so how do we rebuild it after we've been let down?
When you faith (in leaders and the church) is broken
Recent years have left many of us feeling pretty shaken. So how can respond?
Your Anxiety Is Not A Flaw
What is anxiety and how does it sit alongside our faith? Dr Kate Middleton explains more.
The Anxiety Tap
An article by Will Van Der Hart around how to turn off the anxiety tap when we need to.
Learning to Lament
Dr Kate Middleton talks about how to let ourselves feel negative emotions.
How to manage a season of prolonged stress
How do we manage when a season of stress seems to go on and on? Here's Dr Kate Middleton with some tips.
Supporting Other People's Mental Health
Supporting others who are struggling can be an incredibly hard and demanding role. So how can we support ourselves to do that well?
Top 10 Tips If You're Struggling To Sleep
Will Van Der Hart from the Mind & Soul Foundation gives us some great tips we can try if we are struggling to get to sleep.
The Theology Of Mental Health
Will Van Der Hart talks about what the Bible actually says about mental health and how we should respond.
Stressed out??
Dr Kate Middleton shares some key tips for managing stress levels
Three steps when you're feeling anxious
Dr Will Van de Hart gives us some brilliant steps to try when we feel anxious
How to care for your mental health this autumn/winter
Here's some really practical ways to look after yourself this autumn/winter
Is it time to MOT your mind?
Dr Kate Middleton takes us through 5 checks we can make to MOT our minds
Resources
The Perfectionism Book
This book is about a change in perspective – seeing perfectionism as the problem, rather than the goals
The Worry Book
Statistically life has never been safer, yet our world and churches are filled with worries on the scale of an epidemic, so what has gone
The Guilt Book
How do we tell the difference between True Guilt for which we can ask forgiveness, and False Guilt for which we need to use psychological tools
First Steps Out Of Eating Disorders
In this book, Kate, along with her co-author, Jane Smith looks at how to take the first steps towards recovery from an eating disorder
Refuel
Kate's biblical self-help book will help readers to identify understand the dangers of stress and offers practical tips to reduce and manage stress in a biblical way
The Stuff of Life
This book (kindle and paperback) covers a whole range of mental health issues facing students today
How to de-stress without doing less
This book looks at what stress really is, and the kinds of impact it can have on our lives and wellbeing
The Power of Belonging
Discovering the Confidence to Lead with Vulnerability
Fieldnote cards
Cards to uplift, inspire and bring a little faith and refreshment into your world
Reflective Content
Open me- He is more than enough
Reflective devotional. In the face of failure, we don't need to be perfect, our God is enough.
Open me- He comes through
Reflective devotional. God always comes through for us, even when we feel out of control
Open me- He restores my soul
Short reflective devotional for youth leaders based on Psalm 23
