Personal Health and Self-Care Tips
Self-care means taking the time to do things that help you live well and improve both your physical health and mental health. When it comes to your mental health, self-care can help you manage stress, lower your risk of illness, and increase your energy. Even small acts of self-care in your daily life can have a big impact.
Mental Health Self-Care
Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, make choices, and relate to others. Mental health is more than the absence of a mental illness—it’s essential to your overall health and quality of life. Self-care can play a role in maintaining your mental health and help support your treatment and recovery if you have a mental illness. NIMH National Institute of Mental Health.
Positive Thinking
There is definitely a strong link between “positivity” and health. Additional studies have found that a positive attitude improves outcomes and life satisfaction across a spectrum of conditions—including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and brain tumors.
Food and Nutrition
Your brain needs a lot of nutrients to function and keep you well. Eating well helps reduce the risk of physical health problems like heart disease and diabetes. It also helps with sleeping patterns, energy levels, and your general health.
You may have noticed that your mood often affects the types of food you choose, as well as how much you eat. Some foods can lift your mood, energy levels, and concentration, while others can have the opposite effect.
Tips for Mental Well-Being
How meditation and an introduction to the latest tech can help you manage your well-being by Guardian Life.
Healthy Body
9 Tricks to Help You Start Working Out and Actually Stick to It by Everyday Health.
Sleep
“Sleep services all aspects of our body in one way or another: molecular, energy balance, as well as intellectual function, alertness, and mood,” says Dr. Merrill Mitler, a sleep expert and neuroscientist at NIH.
CaringBridge Tool
CaringBridge is your free online tool for sharing health updates. It is an easy and ad-free way to communicate health news to family and friends—all in one place.
Reframe App (Stop Drinking)
Developed with hundreds of medical and mental health experts, Reframe is a revolutionary alcohol habit-change app.
Self Care Video Library
Tips to Overcome Loneliness
If you feel alone, you are not alone. Everyone feels lonely at some point, and it is overwhelming. We can help! Loneliness is not a choice; it's actually a chemical reaction (and it's nothing to be ashamed of)! Watch as Vanessa goes over some practical, science-based pointers to pump up the level of pleasure chemicals in your brain to help you feel less lonely.
Music Therapy
Music therapy is an evidence-based treatment that helps with a variety of disorders, including cardiac conditions, depression, autism, substance abuse, and Alzheimer’s disease. It can help with memory, lower blood pressure, improve coping, reduce stress, improve self-esteem, and more. You don’t need a background in music to participate.
Pet Therapy
The human-animal bond is a mutually beneficial relationship between people and animals that positively influences the health and well-being of both. Research, combined with human intuition, recognizes the impact the human-animal bond can have on health.
Managing Stress and Anxiety
Dr. Krystal Lewis of the NIMH discusses how to manage stress and anxiety.
Self-Care Tips for Business Owners
From the GoDaddy series Made in America, this video is about a family business and how they manage stress.
Art Therapy
Art therapist Juliet King, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC joins Dave Gussak, PhD, ATR-BC for a discussion on the intersection of art therapy and neuroscience.
Tips to Stop Drinking Alcohol
5 EASY TIPS To Quit Drinking Alcohol ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
Books To Improve Yourself
The Power of Fun
If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being, and shows us how to have more of it. Author: Catherine Price
Chicken Soup for the Soul
You will find hope and inspiration in these 101 heartwarming stories about counting your blessings, thinking positively, and overcoming challenges. Authors: Jack Canfield, Amy Newmark, Mark Victor Hansen, and Heidi Krupp.
Power Thoughts
In Power Thoughts, Joyce Meyer outlines a flexible program to turn thoughts into habits, and habits into success.
The Stress Solution
Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience by Ph.D. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
