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 videocast

Welcome to the Becoming Wildly Resilient videocast! 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 May 2026

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

Happy Healthy Human January 2026

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

MIEA (Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults) February and June 2026

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

Mindful Self-Compassion Series Fall 2026

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

New! Well at UK is your virtual wellness hub for work and home

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Request a work-life or well-being workshop

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News

February 02, 2026

Give back, feel better: How volunteering supports your health

When life feels busy, stressful or disconnected, volunteering might be the last thing on your mind. Yet research consistently shows that giving your time and skills to others doesn’t just strengthen communities—it also supports your mental, emotional and physical health. Volunteering isn’t about doing more; it’s about doing something meaningful. And sometimes, that shift makes all the difference. Why volunteering is good for your health 1. Volunteering improves mental and emotional well-being

December 23, 2025

Beginning the new year with intention, not resolution

As a new year begins, many of us feel the familiar pull toward resolutions, the quiet sense that we should fix something, improve ourselves or finally get it right. But resolutions often rely on pressure. They ask us to push harder, override our limits and motivate ourselves through self-criticism. Sometimes that works for a moment, but usually it leaves us tired and disconnected from what we actually need. Intentions offer a gentler way. Instead of asking, What should I do better? they ask, What is asking for my care right now?

October 30, 2025

Four Ways to Gather Well

The season of get-togethers is almost here; family dinners, office parties, potlucks and special traditions. While these can be fun, they can also feel overwhelming. As author Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering, “How we gather shapes the way we live.” With a little intention, we can make our gatherings feel more nourishing for ourselves and others.

October 30, 2025

Presence with music and art enhances well-being

We live in a heterogenous world with different societies and cultures. The making and appreciating of music and art transcends and unites societies across time.