Mental health resources

This technique helps you slow down anxious “what if” thinking by turning vague fears into clear, manageable thoughts. By gently examining likelihood, coping ability, and realistic outcomes, it reduces catastrophizing and restores a sense of perspective and control.

Distancing techniques help you reflect on past stress or anxiety without reliving it, creating space between your emotions and the experience itself. This guide explains how viewing situations from a third-person perspective can reduce emotional intensity, support insight, and build healthier long-term coping.

Socratic self-questioning is a simple, evidence-based technique that helps you pause, slow down, and gently challenge stressful or irrational thoughts. This guide walks you through how to separate facts from feelings, reduce mental overwhelm, and create more balanced, realistic thinking.

The “try-not-to-try” method is a counterintuitive technique designed to ease anxiety in familiar situations where overthinking gets in the way. This guide explains when to use it, how it works, and why letting go of effort can actually restore clarity, intuition, and calm.

Learn more about Binge Eating Disorder, and better understand what it looks like, why it happens, and compassionate ways to begin healing through self-care, awareness, and support.

Learn about Borderline Personality Disorder to better understand how it affects emotions, relationships, and sense of self. Discover compassion-focused ways to understand and cope.

This simple exercise uses music and positive memory to gently lift your mood and help your mind feel more open and flexible. In just a few minutes, it can support emotional well-being, spark creativity, and make it easier to shift perspective when you’re feeling stuck or low.

Disrupting your expectations is a simple practice that invites you to break out of autopilot by doing familiar tasks in new ways. This exercise helps build cognitive flexibility, spark creativity, and loosen rigid thinking by gently challenging how you expect things to work.

A quick, five-step exercise that helps you identify your core internal goals and reflect on them—boosting motivation, learning, creativity, and cognitive flexibility.

In this free downloadable tips sheet, our Layla experts provide helpful information on navigating your mental health while living with chronic pain.

In this free downloadable tips sheet, our Layla experts provide helpful information on navigating your mental health through your fertility journey.

In this free downloadable tips sheet, our Layla experts provide helpful information on managing the heavy emotions of grief.

In this free downloadable tips sheet, our Layla experts provide helpful information on mindfulness and how to make mindfulness a part of your life.

In this free downloadable tips sheet, our Layla experts provide helpful information to identify burnout, as well as strategies and resources to combat common symptoms and side effects of burnout.