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Mental Wellness Resources for the Whole Family


Published: Jan. 27, 2021Updated: Jan. 11, 2024

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Parents often need to take on multiplying, shifting roles as parent/caregiver/therapist/teacher, so it's important to remember self-care during stressful times. To get helpful resources not just for parents but for the whole family, we asked Dr. Rita Eichenstein for recommendations, and the Undivided research time helped contribute to this list as well!

Books to help cope with stress

Podcasts and articles for arents

Self-care resources for families

  • Do Yoga With Me: Online guided yoga instruction offering two months of classes for free.

  • CorePower Yoga: CorePower’s online library of classes is publicly available, and they have plenty of workouts on YouTube too.

  • Anxiety Reducing Music: Six hours of free music created to reduce anxiety from NPR.

  • Super Stretch Yoga: This app teaches kids twelve different animal-inspired yoga poses via an animated superhero named Super Stretch. Kids can watch videos of children doing each pose and an explanation of how to do it; they can also choose a particular pose or do them in order. Reminders to breathe are given throughout.

Mindfulness apps for parents and kids

  • Calm: Calm contains hundreds of excellent guided meditations in varying lengths, with an entire section devoted to children. The app also offers music and bedtime stories.

  • Headspace: Like Calm, Headspace contains guided meditations and music in varying lengths for the whole family. The kids’ section features five themes: Calm, Focus, Kindness, Sleep, and Wake Up.

  • Insight Timer: This app contains 32,000 free guided meditations, and their section for kids includes topics on finding peace, falling asleep, “overcoming monkey mind,” and calming anxiety.

  • Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame: This app is intended for young children to help them learn self-control, problem-solving, and task persistence. To help an upset Sesame Street monster learn to calm down, children practice different techniques such as breathing exercises, popping bubbles, and making a plan.

  • The Breathing Butterfly: This app contains six beautifully designed “games” that help promote relaxation and calm: “Grow a garden and spot a hummingbird. Visit a cherry-blossom snow-globe. Guide a butterfly to sip blossom nectar and reach a rainbow. Make music. And yes, catch a falling star!”

  • Mindful Powers: This app introduces children to mindfulness through a series of voice-guided stories with the help of a playful monster named Flibbertigibbet. Flibbertigibbet is agitated and needs help calming down; by soothing him, the child is led to learn techniques to help them gain inner calm.

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Books to help cope with stress

Podcasts and articles for arents

Self-care resources for families

Mindfulness apps for parents and kids
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