September is Self-Care Awareness Month

 What is missing from or low in your wellness cup? Take a moment throughout the day to conduct a check-in with yourself. How are you… really? 

Here is a short list to consider for an effective holistic check in:

• Physical: What physical health steps need your attention? As advised annually, have you seen your medical providers?
• Emotional: What joy increasing experience can you practice that will serve to nurture your emotional well-being?
• Spiritual: How clear are you on your purpose? How do your daily choices match your image of your worth and contribution to the greater good?

Self-Care Resources

Do you sometimes feel like you’re running on empty by the end of the day? Do you tend to put your own needs last? September is Self-Care Awareness Month, there is still time to refocus on you and your wellbeing. Fill up your cup, NOVA.

• Have a Daily Dose of Self Care: Dig into this deep well of suggested strategies to deepen awareness and activate self-care. This sampling of posts in the calendar shared above represents an extensive repository of resources to support self-care.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): The employee assistance program provided to health plan members offers a number of visits at no cost to you or members of your household for counseling in such areas as mental health, substance abuse, work and family issues, and financial or legal matters. Get additional information on the Employee Assistance Program.
• Don’t miss out on NOVA’s Wellbeats! Wellbeats is NOVA’s customized on-demand fitness and wellbeing platform offering classes to faculty, staff and students. Participate in on-demand classes to restore energy, elevate your mood, and focus on your own health and happiness. Whether you could use a relaxing yoga or meditation class (such as “Therapeutic Yoga” or “Gratitude Meditation”) or a feel-good workout (such as “Strength Builder” or “Sunrise Run”), your Wellbeats fitness and wellbeing benefit is available 24/7 to help you feel your best (and strongest) self. To access the Wellbeats Platform, request your personal invitation code at nbaha@nvcc.edu today!
• Check out the Fall Workshop Series from the Annandale Center for Contemplative Practices.  The focus of this series is bringing compassion into the various aspects of our lives.
• Explore the Greater Good in Action Self-Care Exercises: Got 15 minutes a day to become a happier and more compassionate person? Greater Good in Action (GGIA) offers dozens of science-based, practical exercises to boost personal well-being. GGIA builds on the premise—backed up by cutting-edge research—that happiness, resilience, and kindness are skills that can be taught and developed over time.

Tiny tweaks lead to big changes.

Submitted by:
Dahlia Henry-Tett, HR-Chief Wellness Officer, DHTett@nvcc.edu