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Our mental health pandemic

Years of research at The University of Melbourne led us to discover that, most people don’t know how to manage their mental health and tough times skilfully, but they want to know how!

When we’re extremely distressed we just want our pain to go away and if we don’t know how to cope skilfully in those moments we can be tempted to cope in unhealthy ways that are problematic for us - that damage our relationships, make the situation worse and aren’t in line with our long term goals and values.

At I Am Mindful, we are shining a light on this problem of never learning or knowing how. We don’t want you to just wing it in the moments when life feels really hard. We’re here to teach you proactive mental health coping strategies to save you from having to hit rock bottom to learn how to best support yourself skilfully. We want to help you form your unique roadmap and hit list to cope well.

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We help you learn mindfulness, distress tolerance and emotion regulation strategies drawn from Positive Psychology, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and lived experience, so you can be your own mental health hero and support yourself in your own space and environment

When you buy an I.A.M™ Mental Health First-Aid Toolkit you receive:

  • The box with physical sensory items which we help you learn how to use therapeutically through our online instruction videos and coping planning resources

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When we are upset and are in the “red zone” of our emotional thermometer, the parts of our brain responsible for decision making and impulse control switch off. We can’t solve our problems when we are in this headspace.

 
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We need strategies to help us move down our emotional thermometers (which is where we come in) so that we can enter what is called in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) a “wise mind”. This is a place where we can make decisions which are healthy for us, in line with our values and long term goals and move us closer towards to people we want to be.

 
 

The goal of the I.A.M™ Mental Health First-Aid Toolkit combined with our accompanying coping planning resources, is to help you create a roadmap of your own unique healthy and evidence based coping strategies which you can share with your support system to help you when it’s hard to help yourself.

Your tools will help you to navigate these difficult situations

so that you can: