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Apps for Self Care

Explore Apps for Stress and Focus

CDC's Guide to Covid-19 & Stress
The CDC highlights some important emotional self care points.
Safe Space by Vibrant.org
Tools to find connection, crisis and coping assistance, or distraction.
Forest App
This app sets 25 minute sessions with rewards for successful focus.
UCLA Mindful App
With this easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Momentum Dash browser extension
This browser extension for Chrome and Safari helps decrease visible distractions.
Self Control App
This Mac OS app allows you to block distracting websites for the time amount you set.
Calming Ambient Music
Ambient-mixer.com is a community driven project offering unique quality soundscapes with different atmospheres for chilling, relaxing or your recordings using our endless audio loops.
Noisli Sound
This site allows you to tailor sounds to cover background noise and assist focus.

Fitness & Exercise

Explore Fitness and Exercise Online

Citation: George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. "Exercises for women: windmill exercise." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 17, 2020. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-c8b4-d471-e040-e00a180654d7

25 Ways to Get Moving at Home!
Heart Association's infographic to help you get your kids moving when stuck around the house.
Essentrics Workouts
Workout series focused on extensive stretching for strength, mobility, and body shaping.
MadFit Exercise series
MadFit provides a large body of exercise videos, many requiring no equipment and minimal space.
Move More!
The Heart Association's guide to getting more active.
Staying Fit While Staying In (Broadway World)
Articles and Videos
YMCA 360: On-Demand Videos
Free fitness, yoga and exercise videos
20 Minute Stress-busting Yoga Routine
Short yoga routine aimed at muscle groups carrying stress and anxiety.

Meditation, Journaling, Tips for Getting Through

Meditation, Journaling, and Acknowledgement of 2020 Losses

Citation: Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Ruth St. Denis and Denishawn dancers in Yoga meditation." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 17, 2020. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8761-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

10 Minute Guided Meditation
Calming voice walks listener through a short meditation.
Loving-Kindness Meditation
Infographic on developing loving compassion for those around you.
Meditation to Calm Overactive Mind, Reduce Anxiety & Worry
Longer meditation with focus on dispersing anxiety and depression.
What's All This About Journaling?
A writer explores advice about keeping a journal to ease anxiety and foster creativity.

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron; Mark Bryan
This classic self-help book recommends regular journal writing and provides exercises to jump-start creativity. Available through Kindle: https://tinyurl.com/jcameronway

CDC's Guide to Covid-19 & Stress
The CDC highlights some important emotional self care points.
Grieving Our Sense of Normalcy
Daily insights on life with uncertainty, by psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer.
How Positive Thinking Builds Your Skills, Boosts Your Health, and Improves Your Work
James Clear explains how positive and negative thinking affect your brain, and suggests how to harness the best effects.
How To Stay In
Vice Magazine's online guide to pandemic problems such as staying in without going crazy, working from home, and staying friends with your partner.
These Strategies Will Help Your Children Cope During These Stressful Times
Thrive Global's tips for helping your kids during pandemic's difficulties.