Video – Making Friends at Work
Short video on ways you can create work friendships.
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Mental Health: Cultural and Ethnic Stigmas
Stigma is defined as a mark of disgrace and can make people feel alienated and discriminated against both within their own cultural group and in wider society. Cultural and ethnic mental health stigmas can affect people dramatically.
Helping Your Loved One Lift the Stigma of Mental Illness
It’s often hard to know how to support someone struggling with a mental illness. Here are some tips.
Microsite: The Ambiguous Side of Mental Health
A microsite was created by LifeWorks during Mental Health Week in May 2022 to help promote topics such as burnout, stress, work dissatisfaction and accepting our feelings when we are down.
Video: Supporting a Friend, Family Member or Colleague with Mental Illness
Short and quick video on supporting others with mental illness.
Do You Have This Mood-Boosting, Isolation Busting Support at Home?
When thinking about work-life balance issues, we tend to overlook the role of our furry, finned and feathered friends. Pets play an integral role in making you happy, reducing daily stresses and improving your overall well-being.
Maintaining Positivity and Good Health
Short video on the benefits of positive thinking.
Checking Your Financial Well-being
No matter how good you are with your finances, it makes sense to conduct a financial well-being check at least once a year.
Emotional Labour
Sociologists define emotional labour as the idea that people need to manage their emotions, keeping feelings to themselves in order to exist within society.
Planning for Your Retirement: Things to Consider
When we think about retiring, most of us imagine a time when we won’t have to rush off to work, we’ll enjoy leisure activities, and have time simply to relax. We may worry about how we’ll manage financially once we leave our full-time jobs. But few of us have made solid plans for our retirement that include looking at our finances, personal relationships, and meaningful activities.