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.

Request a work-life or well-being workshop

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News

December 23, 2025

Beginning the new year with intention, not resolution

As a new year begins, many of us feel an almost automatic pull toward resolutions, those well-intended statements about what we should fix, improve, or finally get right. Often by becoming a more optimized version of ourselves by February. Resolutions tend to rely on pressure. They assume that if we just tried harder, pushed more, or held ourselves to a higher standard, change would follow. And sometimes it does, but just for a while.

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.

October 28, 2025

November events recognize the caregiver in all of us

In November 2025, we may feel the desire to slow down as we settle into the fall season. For caregivers, there is no pause or slow down. It’s an everyday ongoing responsibility that can be both taxing and rewarding. We encourage you to pause to consider that we are all caregivers. The first person we care for is ourselves. And if we do a poor job at self-care, then it limits our effectiveness when it comes to caring for others including our children and our elderly loved ones.