Personal resilience | Human Resources

Guidance for short or long-term goals

Consult with a health coach

During this single session, you’ll gain clarity on a change you want to make and how to start.

Health coaching

In four to eight sessions, you’ll obtain tools you need to live a more positive, resilient life.

Freedom from Smoking: Tobacco cessation coaching

Develop tools to help you quit tobacco for good with the help of personalized coaching.

Resources for increasing resilience

Headspace

The Headspace app, free to eligible employees, provides access to a variety of resources related to meditation and mindfulness.

Calming spaces

Calming spaces are great tools for supporting mental and emotional well-being in the workplace. They offer opportunities to slow down, recharge and decompress.

Becoming Wildly Resilient Podcast

Welcome to the Becoming Wildly Resilient Podcast! Each episode delves into a unique well-being topic through three segments: insightful conversations with university experts, practical exercises and guided meditations.

Color Kentucky Healthy

Refocus, remain calm and relieve stress at work with a coloring mural!

Call 911 for emergencies

If you’re experiencing a mental health crisis or emergency, such as imminent danger of causing harm to yourself or others, immediately call 911 or visit your nearest hospital emergency room.

If you or someone you know is currently in distress and considering suicide, immediately contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 (call, text or chat).

Contact UKHC EmPATH for any mental health or substance use crises: 859-562-3899; 1354 Bull Lea Road, Lexington, KY. Walk-ins welcome.

Classes and workshops

Bend, Don’t Break Spring 2026

A seven-week online course to deepen calm, connection and resilience in your body and brain.

Happy Healthy Human July 2025

In this seven-week series, learn to cultivate more curiosity, compassion and resilience in your well-being.

Koru Basic Mindfulness September 2025

This four-week online class is an introduction to mindfulness and meditation.

Mindful Self-Compassion Series October 2025

An opportunity to learn, practice and bring more self-compassion into our lives. Four zoom sessions.

Request a work-life or well-being workshop

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News

July 30, 2025

The Healing Power of Creativity

Life gives us moments that words can’t always fully hold. A heartbreak that lingers in the chest. Anxiety that hums under the surface. Grief that feels too big to name. We know talking is important. It can bring clarity, relief and connection. We also know that sometimes words alone aren’t enough. That’s where artistic outlets provide different outlets to process emotions.

July 25, 2025

We will have plenty of important elder care of offerings this fall

It’s been a busy and productive summer facilitating elder care consultations and planning activities and workshops for the upcoming 2025-26 year. I invite you to join me for a season of great programing for everyone. Beginning in August, we kick-off with an informative workshop covering updates to the Family Medical Leave and Elder Care Leave benefits. You don’t want to miss this one.

July 14, 2025