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Top apps to decrease stress and increase your wellness

Mood Kit

This app offers professional psychology tips and tools for everyday life to help improve mood and overall well-being.

Happify

Happify is a mental health app that provides effective tools and programming to help take control of emotional well-being.  It helps combat stress, anxiety, depression, and constant negative thoughts.

Insight Timer

This app is the most popular free meditation app in the Apple store.  It has a timer with a pleasant chime, which can be used for silent or guided meditation.  Insight Timer has more than 5,000 guided meditations from some of the world’s best meditation teachers.  There is also a support group feature for those who want to be a part of a meditation community.

Pacifica

This mental wellness app provides users with psychologist-designed tools to address stress, anxiety, and depression based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation, and mood/health tracking.  It offers a user-friendly way to monitor emotions and can be a great adjunct to counseling or helpful on its own.

C25K

This app offers a structured plan for new runners to gradually build strength and stamina.  C25K is great for those who like a tailored running plan that does not require a personal trainer or running group.

Mind the Bump

This meditation app is perfect to help individuals and couples mentally and emotionally prepare for having a baby and becoming a new parent.  Mind the Bump helps users to reconnect with their partner and focus on one’s changing body throughout pregnancy.

Fooducate

This weight-loss app is ideal for individuals who want to lose weight with the help of a free coach and a supportive community.  Fooducate allows users to track food intake and mood.

Lumosity

This app improves memory and attention through comprehensive brain training.  Lumosity is great to use when you are traveling or have some time to kill, and it helps to strengthen the power of the brain with fun and engaging games.

Relax and Rest Guided Meditations

This meditation app offers three programs of varying lengths (breath, deep rest, whole body), which allow the listener to relax deeply regardless of how much time the user has to meditate.  The calming voice and music can help to put someone with sleeping difficulties into a deep sleep, and help reduce anxiety.

Cozi Family Organizer

This family organization app’s features include a shared calendar, shopping lists, and to-do list that everyone in the family can access on the go.