Mental Health is Essential
Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable. Coping with big changes, recognizing trauma, and building resiliency, are covered in Mental Health America’s 2021 Toolkit, #Tools2Thrive. www.mhascreening.org www.mhanational.org/may For MBWCF Members – 10 Hallmarks of Psychologically Safe Workplaces […]
Remember to Check in With Yourself
Knowing when to turn to friends, family, and co-workers when you are struggling with life’s challenges can help improve your mental health. One way to check in with yourself is to take a mental health screen at MHAscreening.org. It’s a quick, free, and private way for someone to assess […]
Mental Health Awareness Month 2021
Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in May in the United States since 1949. The month is observed with media, local events, and film screenings. Mental Health Awareness Month began in the United States in 1949 and was started by the Mental Health America organization. For resources, tools, policies, […]
Do You Have an Employee Assistance Program?
Help can be a phone call away. Do you offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)? Do your employees know how to access this resource? Promoting your workplace EAP can help when addressing mental health issues related to bullying, such as anxiety or depression Almost 30% of autistic people report feeling […]
Are you Neurodivergent?
It is estimated that just 59% of people can be considered “Neurotypical” – Dr. Nancy Doyle Accommodations for teammates with visible (dis)abilities may be more obvious, but the key to both visible and invisible (dis)ability accommodations is flexibility. Schedule, environment, feedback, and training flexibility. Small adjustments in these areas can […]
Autism Acceptance Month
This April, in our efforts to spread awareness, promote acceptance and ignite change we will be discussing autism acceptance month and neurodiversity in the workplace. The Autism Society of America, the nation’s oldest grassroots autism organization, is proud to celebrate Autism Acceptance Month in April 2022. A commonly asked […]
Do You Know Why Humor at Work is Important?
Explore! Have fun! Try new things and remember what it was like to be a kid! Humor at Work Tedx Talk Andrew Tarvin is the world’s first Humor Engineer teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. He combines his background as a project manager at Procter & […]
Benefit of Fun
My top 3 health reasons for having fun Better sleep – having fun and laughing lowers the hormone cortisol and raises the hormone serotonin. Having a proper level of these two hormones can lead to great sleep. Better memory – having fun helps clear headspace and live in the now. […]
Prescribed Laughter
The field of psychoneuroimmunology is the study of the relation between the mind and the body, especially in connection with the body’s ability to heal. Gelotology is the science of laughter. Laughter appears to change brain chemistry. Laughter and even imitating laughter has benefits. Check out this Bollywood laugh yoga […]
Laughter & Levity
Laughter reduces the level of stress hormones like cortisol, epinephrine (adrenaline), dopamine, and growth hormone. Do you have a favorite joke? A favorite comedian? A funny kid joke? Share it with me and I’ll add it to our website’s newest section “Safety is No Joke” Two fish are in a […]