Mental Wellness Blog & News

Maintaining good mental health and preventing mental health problems is crucial throughout the life cycle. A fit mind can perform well and thrive regardless of position and age. There are several effective ways to prioritize mental wellness and ensure we stay mentally fit as we age and proceed with our entrepreneurial journey or career. We reveal some examples and insights in this mental wellne...

May is recognized as Mental Health Month in the United States since 1949. During May the aim is to highlight the importance of prevention and understanding of different mental health issues and provide resources to support mental wellness. This year's theme, "Look Around, Look Within" sends a hint that supporting others and looking within matters equally. Mental health is somet...

Work-life balance has been a popular buzzword for several decades now, but the concept itself has come under scrutiny in recent years as our interconnected lifestyles have brought to the table various new challenges. The idea of work-life balance is from the pre-mobile-devices era outdated and is more and more unrealistic without causing stress. Instead of seeking artificial balance and sepa...

Work stress is a common problem that affects many people across different industries and professions. According to a survey conducted by the American Institute of Stress, 80% of workers feel stressed on the job, with nearly half reporting that they need help in learning how to manage stress. Furthermore, the World Health Organization has recognized work-related stress as a global issue, with es...

In today's always-on culture, we don't value being alone. Even more so, as we are always connected, we have become afraid of loneliness. However, being lonely has exceptionally little in common with solitude. Solitude and loneliness are different. While loneliness is associated with negative feelings that often sabotage your self-worth solitude refreshes and boosts your wellbeing. So...

As leaders, we have all seen how people in our teams are often unable to stay focused and fully concentrated. We also see a lack of initiative and that when things pile up people become susceptible to stress, burnout, and more serious mental health issues like depression and anxiety. What can be done to prevent mental health problems? How can we have a more proactive approach to our busine...

Workplace culture directly affects employee performance, attitude, behavior, and mental well-being. A positive work atmosphere can make people more motivated to increase their productivity and meet their goals. On the other hand, performing in a negative environment presents mental wellness challenges and brings about stress, low employee engagement, and even unnecessary toxicity between employ...

While workplaces and businesses set clear business goals, wellness is often ignored as a fundamentally important goal. Wellness realistically is something that intentionally sets the workplace culture. Only when people have fit minds and bodies can they properly focus on your business goals. The word "only" in the previous sentence is intentional as it represents the truth. A fit m...

A calm mind has the power to choose an adequate response in every situation. A calm mind can hold focus even when it meets external pressure or crisis situations. However that is not all, a calm mind can easily access creativity and intuition and thus support innovation. Any calm-minded person is easy to work with. The calmest person is the most powerful person A sharp-minded person who k...

While workplaces have noticed the need to shed light on workplace mental health and employee mental wellness systematic proactive approach to training our minds is mostly still missing. Even though it has become a priority for HR managers and team members to address poor mental health at work securing normal mental wellness needs more attention. What's worrying is that stress and poor menta...

The workplace wellness training approach has been relatively physical health-centric and not proactive enough in the case of mind health. Why is it a problem? Most leaders and employees lack the inner ability to notice when their inner downward spiral starts. When people lack training in preventative activities to sustain their mental wellness, external pressure and challenges often cause...

We all have mental health. When it is great, we shine and work well. When our mental wellness level drops and we become first stressed, and then start to burn out or experience anxiousness, loss of productivity and a drop in employee engagement level will follow. You may have experienced a day when your mental wellness is lower than usual. It may even be a day when you barely get by. On such...

Knowing how to have a healthy mind is the key for working parents to meet what is expected of them at work and home. That's because parenting is no easy feat, even more so if parents are juggling it with work. It can take both a physical and mental toll that could manifest in how one would run their household. That mental load can also affect how parents raise and treat their children, ...

What is mind health? Why healthy inner domain matter for every person? After many years of celebrating World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, this year's theme has hit the nail! Let's look further at how to ‘Make Mental Health & Well-Being for All a Global Priority’? Firstly all trends need to start from somewhere. The ideal place to start is your o...

It is time to make training our minds as normal as going to the gym and benefit from keeping inner calmness and mental strength. World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on the 10th of October. In 2022 the theme is ‘Make Mental Health & Well-Being for All a Global Priority’. Let's look at how to do that. First, let's state the obvious. in the case of our heal...