Life Skills - FREE Course

I've found this fantastic website, that I know a few of you might find extremely useful.

Living Life to the Full

It's a FREE course for carers and people wanting to better their lives, whether they suffer with anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, behaviour, relationships and generally helping you with "life skills". It helps you understand why you feel as you do and make changes in your thinking.

The course is based on "Helping people to help themselves". A crucial element is to inform, educate and teach key life skills.

The following outline gives an overview of the type of things the course covers:

* Understanding why we feel as we do.
* Practical problem solving skills.
* Using Anxiety Control Training relaxation.
* Overcoming Reduced activity .
* Helpful and Unhelpful behaviours.
* Using Medication effectively.
* Noticing unhelpful thoughts.
* Changing unhelpful thoughts.
* Healthy living - sleep, food, diet and exercise.
* Staying well.


What would you like to get out of the course?

* We all need life skills in our work, relationships and in every other aspect of our lives.
* Probably we all have very different reasons for doing the course. Some of us may suffer or are suffering from depression/anxiety or distress.
* Some of us may be caring/supporting people who are facing anxiety or depression.
* Some of us may be working with people with anxiety/depression.


Whatever your reason for wanting to learn these life skills we hope the content proves helpful. The skills taught cover general skills/information we can all use in our lives when we feel under pressure, stressed or distressed.

The author of the course is Dr Chris Williams he is a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow. His main clinical and research interest is in the area of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and in particular in looking at ways of disseminating this approach more widely. It has been made available Free of charge through NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde through their financial support with the development and infrastructure hosting of Living Life to The Full Website.

Personally, (and from reading the testimonials on the website) I think this course should be taught in the last year of schools - in this life full of worry and stress we all need help one time or another and we don't know where or how to access the help we need.

I've started doing the course, and feel positive that it will help me with my "Life Skills" and help me become a better person, parent, partner, friend and feel happy and in control and be able to deal with whatever life throws at me.