The Healthy UBC Newsletter comes out monthly for those who are interested in health and wellbeing topics at UBC.
Healthy UBC Newsletter
Join UBC’s 30-Day Online Mindfulness Challenge: Starts November 1!
Studies show that our minds wander 46.5% of the time. With all the digital and life distractions around us, it’s not surprising that there’s greater focus on mindfulness practices.
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- Healthy UBC
Social Support: The Importance of Asking for and Offering Help
I won’t lie – September was a rough month for me. It seems that in my efforts to support others in preparation for a busy fall, I neglected to take my own advice. I pushed myself. I ignored the signs my body was sending me. I crashed.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Wellbeing in the News: September 2019
Check out the links below to see what we’ve been reading and listening to lately.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Healthy Recipes & Tips: Stress-free Meal Planning
It’s back-to-school time and I hope you’re feeling re-energized after the summer. This month, we offer ideas, recipes and tips for nourishing stress-free eating, and ensuring your body and brain feel fueled.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Coping Skills for Effective Stress Management
Resilience is adapting, learning and growing through challenge or adversity. Conversations around resilience often treat it as an outcome – a desired state that we are personally responsible for achieving – and when we don’t, it can cause us to feel frustrated and inadequate.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Explore Your Path to Mental Health: Thrive and Not Myself Today 2019
UBC believes that by working together to promote mental health literacy, everyone can thrive and feel motivated, enjoy life and be ready to take on challenges. That’s why the university organizes Thrive, a series of events focused on helping the community to explore their path to mental health.
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Focus on You This Fall
For those out there who are parents, work in student-facing positions or are part of a post-secondary community, the start of a new academic year can be demanding and draining (in addition to being exciting). How can we persevere through hectic times in our lives without sacrificing our physical and mental wellbeing?
- HR
- Healthy UBC
Thrive 2018: Explore Your Path to Mental Health
Building and maintaining our mental health is a year-round pursuit, and Thrive is one of many mental health initiatives at UBC. This year, Thrive takes place from Oct. 29 – Nov. 2.
- HR
- Benefits FYI
- Healthy UBC