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.

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.

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.

Request a work-life or well-being workshop

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News

November 17, 2020

Build Your Own Self-Compassion Meditation

Offering kindness to ourselves can be a powerful tool when we struggle or encounter difficulty. Practicing self-compassion can help reduce negative mind-states (e.g., anxiety, depression, stress, perfectionism, shame, body dissatisfaction) and increase positive mind-states (e.g., life satisfaction, happiness, self-confidence, body appreciation). Follow along to learn how you can create your own self-compassion meditation, which is inspired by the works of clinical psychologists Kristin Neff, Chris Germer, and Tara Brach.

November 17, 2020

Completing Our Body's Stress Response Cycle

When we face anything the brain perceives as a threat, stress is the body's natural response. Like all biological processes, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. If we can move all the way through the stress response cycle, we stay healthier. Identical twin sisters Drs. Amelia and Emily Nagoski identify the difference between stress and stressors in their book, "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle." They write:

November 17, 2020

Understanding Loneliness

In Dr. Vivek Murthy's book, "Together," he writes that "humans are social creatures: in this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness." At the center of our loneliness is our innate desire to connect. We have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another and to share life experiences. Simply, we are better together. And yet, in spite of our desire to connect, Dr.

July 14, 2020