Ending stigma includes integrating mental health into our daily lives. This includes taking proactive steps to promote mental wellbeing – including our own wellbeing. Just as physical health requires intentional efforts to exercise and eat well, mental health also requires purposeful actions. Modeling self-care for those around you, including your staff, friends, family, and children, can help teach them how to establish boundaries, tune into themselves and take action to remain healthy. By taking time for and prioritizing your own wellbeing, you are also helping to change our society’s social norms regarding mental health. If we can all learn to listen to our emotional and physical cues, and take care of ourselves when we need it, we can address our issues before they become crises, avoid the associated emotional and physical strife, and become healthier and happier people.

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Love and Care for your Mind

Check out the resources available on the Love your Mind Website that are designed to help you understand and manage emotions and moods and challenging life situations. As noted on this website: “caring for your mind only makes you stronger.”

Maintain Your Own Wellbeing

Read this short article about How to Recharge: Tips from a Stanford Wellness Coach to learn tips for maintaining your own wellbeing. Listening to your mind and body is vital to understanding when your mental health and well-being need to be recharged. Individuals are better models of positive mental health and wellbeing when they effectively care for themselves. Listen to and check in with yourself on a regular basis by following these tips.

Model Good Mental Health Practices for Youth

Read this short article about 6 Simple Ways To Model Good Mental Health Practices For Your Kids to learn how you can play a role in changing the social norms about mental health in your network. While this article is specific to a parental relationship, many of these tips can be used in adult relationships or even professional settings.

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Self-Care Action Plan

Watch a 5-minute video on how to make A Self-Care Action Plan to maintain your well-being regardless of external stressors.

Model Self-Care

Watch the 2-minute video Modeling Self Care to learn how prioritizing self care can help those around you, especially youth.

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Make Your Own Self-Care Action Plan

Make your own self-care action plan based on your needs and desires. Check out this list of Self Care Tips for an idea of where to start.

Question of the Day

Reflect on your self-care inventory: what areas of your own self-care do you want to improve on?

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The challenge is designed to spur change – in mindsets, behaviors, opportunities and practices. Please help us keep track of how individuals are engaging with the 21-Day Stigma Challenge resources and actions. Each action you take, each resource you review, will add a ticket in your name to the drawing for one of five $100 gift cards at the end of the challenge.

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Simple Tips to Immediately Improve Your Mental Health

Read the pocket guide Tools to Thrive to learn about simple actions you can take to improve your wellbeing right now.

5 Building Blocks for Wellbeing

Read this article on the PERMA™ THEORY OF WELL-BEING to learn how to utilize the 5 Building Blocks of Wellbeing throughout your day: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA).

Be a Well-Being Role Model at Work

Read about how you can Manage Your Well-Being as a Leader to become a role model for your employees and build stronger team relationships that lead to better health and productivity outcomes.

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