This month’s e-digest focuses on social wellness. Social wellness is about developing a sense of connection and belonging. It involves building healthy relationships with friends, family, and coworkers and maintaining a strong support network.
How to Create Social Support in Your Life
Research shows that healthy and supportive relationships can reduce stress and improve overall well-being. Building a network of supportive friends, or even one supportive relationship, can be vital to your mental health. Go to the Verywell Mind website to learn how you can build supportive and sustaining relationships.
Coping with Loneliness
Loneliness is an experience that means our current close relationships do not meet our needs. Despite the name, one does not have to be alone to feel lonely. Loneliness can come up whenever a person feels alone, unwanted, or isolated. Go to the Canadian Mental Health Association website for tips to help you manage feelings of loneliness.
Employee Mental Health Resources
Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness. It is about realizing our full potential, coping with the normal stresses of life and making a contribution to our community (CMHA.ca).Visit the Employee Mental Health Resourceswebsite for resources to support positive mental health including supports available through theEmployee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
