Maintain Wellbeing During a Pandemic

• Tips for Coping During COVID-19 (Waterloo CBT Clinic)
• Face COVID: How to Respond Effectively to the Corona Crisis (Dr. Russ Harris)
• Working From Home During COVID, With and Without Children (Canadian Psychological Association)
• How to Manage Anxiety and Isolation During Quarantine (Anxiety and Depression Association of America)
• Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine (Greater Good Magazine)

• COVID-19 vs. Your OCD Symptoms
• COVID-19 & OCD: Online Live Town Hall

• The Science of Wellbeing: free online course offered by Yale University
• Free Online Fitness Classes: recommended by CBC

• Financial Help Available in BC During the COVID-19 Crisis

Anxiety

• AnxietyCanada website: free self-help resources on a variety of anxiety and related concerns
• The Anxious Thoughts Workbook: Skills to Overcome the Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts that Drive Anxiety, Obsesisons & Depression (Clark, 2018)
• The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Calm Worry, Panic, and Fear (Tirch & Gilbert, 2012)
• The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Eifert & Forsyth, 2016)
• When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life (Burns, 2006)
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (Bourne, 2011)

• The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You (Leahy, 2006)
• 10 Simple Solution to Worry: How to Calm Your Mind, Relax Your Body, and Reclaim Your Life (Gyoerkoe & Wiegartz, 2006)

• The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life (Fleming & Kocovski, 2013)
• The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear (Antony & Swinson, 2008)

• Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (Barlow & Craske, 2007)
• 10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, and Reclaim Your Life (Antony & McCabe, 2004)

• It's Not All in Your Head: How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick - and What You Can Do about It (Asmundson & Taylor, 2005)

Obsessions / Compulsions

• International OCD Foundation website: free resources on OCD
• Break Free from OCD: Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with CBT (Salkovskis, 2011)
• Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life (Abramowitz, 2009)
• Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How to Gain Control of Your Obsessive Thoughts (Purdon & Clark, 2005)
• Loving Someone with OCD: Help for You and Your Family (Landsman, Parrish & Pedrick, 2005)

• The TLC Foundation website: free resources on body-focused repetitive behaviours
• The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks (Cash, 2008)
• Feeling Good about the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems (Wilhelm, 2006)

Perfectionism

• Overcoming Perfectionism: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (Shafram, Egan & Wade, 2013)
• When Perfect Isn't Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism (Antony & Swinson, 2009)
• Never Good Enough: How to use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting it Ruin Your Life (Basco, 2000)

Perinatal

• AnxietyCanada - Parents Self-Help website: free resources on anxiety management strategies for women who experience anxiety during prenatal and postpartum periods
• "Psychology Works" Fact Sheet- Perinatal Anxiety: information on what perinatal anxiety is, when anxiety is a problem, and evidence-based treatment resources
• Pacific Postpartum Support Society website: free informational resources and support for new mothers and their partners
• Postpartum Support International - Tools for Mom website: free informational resources and support for moms
• BC Reproductive Mental Health website: Resources from a BC Children's Hospital program, run by a team of specialized and multidisciplinary professionals, helping women who are dealing with mental health and emotional difficulties related to the reproductive life cycle.
• VCH postpartum depression and anxiety support: Vancouver Costal Health Authority provides services for women and men experiencing long periods of worry, anxiety and sadness before or after the birth or adoption of a baby.
• The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsessions, and Compulsions (Gyoerkoe & Wiegartz, 2009)

Depression

• Antidepressant Skills Workbook: free self-help workbook addressing depression, available in multiple languages and formats
• The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Williams & Teasdale, 2007)
• Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back (Addis & Martell, 2004)
• Ending the Depression Cycle: A Step-By-Step Guide for Preventing Relapse (Bieling & Antony, 2003)
• Your Depression Map: Find the Source of Your Depression and Chart Your Own Recovery (Paterson, 2002)

Self-Compassion

• Article: The Five Myths of Self-Compassion (Neff, 2013)
• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (Neff, 2015)

Sleep

• Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night's Sleep (Carney & Manber, 2013)
• Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those with Depression, Anxiety or Chronic Pain (Carney & Manber, 2009)

Anger

• The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Calm Your Rage and Heal Your Relationships (Kolts & Gilbert, 2012)
• ACT on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger (Eifert, McKay & Forsyth, 2006)

Communication / Assertiveness

• Messages: The Communications Skills Book (McKay & Davis, 2009)
• The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships (Paterson, 2000)

General Resources

• Canadian Psychological Association - Psychology Fact Sheets: free information on a wide-range of mental health concerns
• Here to Help website: free self-help resources for a wide-range of mental health concerns, available in multiple languages
• I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" (Brown, 2007)
• Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. (Brown, 2015)
• The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Haris & Hayes, 2008)
• Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Siegel, 2011)
• The Feeling Good Handbook (Burns, 1999)
• Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (Greenberger & Padesky, 2015)