Calming
Access guided meditations that focus on stress and health as well as sleep aids with these tools
Mindful awareness fostered by tuning into your feelings and practicing acceptance of where you are in the present moment can provide a sense of calm. Finding ways to regulate sleep can also benefit your sense of well-being.
Free mindfulness resources
These resources include a variety of apps with mindfulness activities. Use these to quiet your mind and tune into the present moment.
Mindfulness Quiz
Self-assessment tool that draws on a mindfulness scale that researchers at La Salle University and Drexel University developed.
The Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
Find Your Calm
This app includes mindful meditations, sleep stories, music and master classes. Registration is required; fees apply after the free trial period ends.
Calm
Get Some Headspace
Manage your thoughts with guided meditations and mindfulness activities on this app. Registration required; fees apply after the free trial period ends.
Headspace
Take Your Time
Access free daily meditations and soothing sleep sounds on this app, which includes more than 90,000 guided meditations. Topics include stress and health.
Insight Timer
The Mindfulness App
Become more present in your life with this app, which includes guided meditations and sleep aids with daily reminders. More than 250 meditations are available.
MindApps
UCLA Mindful App
This app features wellness meditations for those suffering from challenging health conditions, videos, weekly podcasts, and a timer to meditate on your own.
UCLA Health
Sleep
Use these resources to help you improve your sleep, which can be disrupted during times of stress.
The Physician Wellness Podcast: Sleep
Dr. Atul Khullar and Dr. Charles Samuels discuss the importance of sleep and the challenges facing physicians both during and before the pandemic.
Helping Physicians Through COVID-19
Information and tactics to help physicians compensate for sleep disturbances, including strategic napping and establishing bedtime routines.
Well Doc Alberta
Individual Fatigue/Sleepiness Scales
This three-page self-assessment tool measures the extent to which disturbed sleep is creating health problems.
Fatigue Risk Management