Introducing CommonHealth’s New Campaign, RECHARGE!!

January 17, 2023 / Get Well

Introducing CommonHealth’s new campaign, RECHARGE!! Have you noticed that you get enough sleep, but you’re still not feeling rested? Ready for a new concept? Sleep and rest are not the same things, and sleep doesn’t provide all the different kinds of rest we need. 

Feeling tired may have nothing to do with not getting enough sleep (although good sleep is still essential to your health). A new way to think about what we need is to break our rest needs into seven categories: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, sensory, and creative. Each one requires unique activities to help reduce the rest deficit.

In CommonHealth’s new Recharge campaign, we’ll look at each of these areas to see how we can find the energy we need by figuring out which kinds of rest will work for us to feel our best. For the next few months, CommonHealth Wellnotes will have suggestions about what it feels like when you have a low battery and how to energize yourself to do more of what you love.

As an additional bonus in January, we have teamed up with Kaiser Permanente to bring you three webinars designed to help kickstart your energy levels in the new year. Sign up today for online sessions on self-care (available on demand), making the most of small blocks of time (January 20), and food and mood (January 30) for tips on feeling your best. 

Revisit this Daily Flyer article on sleep, and visit commonhealth.virginia.gov for more ideas about rest and energy.

For questions regarding this week’s communication or the CommonHealth program, please reach out to your respective campus coordinator below: 

Illustration: Recharge: Find the Energy You Need. CommonHealth

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