Guides: Health Services Assistance (Acute Care): Wellness and Wellbeing

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Calm : 100 affirmations for serenity. By Elicia Rose Trewick. (2022) Feeling calm and at ease is made easy and simple with Calm: 100 Affirmations for Serenity, your peaceful ritual filled with affirmations and guided prompts to help you achieve personal growth.
Emotional Intelligence for Dummies. By Steven Stein. (2023) Get smart about your feelings to achieve success and happiness Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is all about perceiving, using, understanding, managing, and handling your emotions and those of others. Learn to manage your emotions, uncover the power of empathy, and build meaningful relationships. Raise emotionally intelligent kids, become a better leader at work, and land the job you want.
Everyday Mantras 365 affirmations for happiness, strength and peace. By Aysel Gunar. (2022) The goal of awakening your soul's purpose is not an easy one, but these thoughtful mantras place it squarely within your reach. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, Everyday Mantras will help you realign your focus and make the next year one filled with awakened awareness. Aysel Gunar guides you through the months with seasonally themed mantras to help you tune in to the world around you and find better grounding in yourself, including: Stay in the moment. Friendship is a celebration. Look for truth. Your choices shape you. Build your patience. Let there be quiet. And more! With a year's worth of mantras, there's something for everyone's personal journey toward self-fulfilment and personal transformation.
The heart of wellness : transform your habits, lifestyle, and health. By Kavitha Chinnaiyan . (2020) Transform your relationship with habits, lifestyle, health, and disease using Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan's remarkable approach to health. The Heart of Wellness shows you how to optimize the workings of the body and mind so that the bliss of your true nature can be revealed. Presented in two parts, this book begins by exploring the nature of disease: the causative and risk factors, the role of diet, exercise, and medication, and how Eastern and Western medical practices can come together. A holistic practice is then outlined, based on the author's successful Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul program, that will guide you toward good health and better living.
A Life Less Stressed : the Five Pillars of Health and Wellness. By Ron Ehrlich. (2018) Ehrlich redefines the stresses that affect us in our modern world, and shows how to strengthen the five pillars -- sleep, breathing, nutrition, movement, and thought -- that support our health. A Life Less Stressed will help you develop a broader understanding of the challenges we face today and empower you to take control, build resilience, and be the best you can be.
Wellness Manual. By Leona Sokolova. (2021) Everyone has a story of finding themselves. Wellness Manual can contribute to your story, your wellness, your success, your well- being, and your balance. It is a step-by-step process of introspection in order to achieve radiant health and maintain it. During the process you get to explore your life from a new and unique perspective. It is all about getting to know yourself better in terms of positivity, gratitude, happiness, simplicity, nutrition, exercise, and more.

Exercise

Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy Workouts (2014) The 290 full-color illustrations allow you to see inside 157 exercises and variations and 49 programs for strengthening, sculpting, and developing your arms, chest, back, shoulders, abs, legs, and glutes. Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations and photos to ensure you understand how to maximize the efficiency of each exercise.
Pilates Anatomy (2019) Choose from 46 exercises to target a particular body region and delve deeper to stretch, strengthen, and finely coordinate specific muscles. See which key muscles are activated, how variations and minor adjustments can influence effectiveness, and how breathing, alignment, and movement are all fundamentally linked as you work to tone the body, stabilize the core, improve balance, and increase flexibility.
Free Your Back! Ease pain and regain natural poise with gentle exercises based on the Alexander Technique. (2013). -- NMTAFE has a multi-user licence for this book. by Penny Ingham NMTAFE has a multi-user licence for this book. Free Your Back will change the way you stand, walk, and sit. The advice will help you to ease those painful stiff necks and backaches and allow you freer movement and better balance throughout your body, for a healthier life free of back pain. The exercises are clearly illustrated by professional cartoonist Colin Shelbourn.

Emotional Wellness Toolkit

Emotional Wellness

Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits

Healthiest Self

North Metropolitan TAFE Supporting Student Wellbeing - Where to get Help

Supporting Student Wellbeing at TAFE
Mental Health emergencies
Free Support provided by NMTAFE
Free counselling provided by external services
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander support groups
Drugs and alcohol support
Family & Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse
Finding food and shelter
Homelessness and emergency housing support
Legal services
LGBTQIA + Resources
Multicultural Resources

Stress and Time Management

Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind (2021) Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction.Over 50 teachers each have a double-page spread in which they reveal how they use them in their teaching -- across the full age range and span of subjects. The book demonstrates how to use these word-diagrams most effectively by partnering them with other teaching strategies, such as retrieval practice, writing, speaking and listening, teacher explanations, advance organisers, scaffolding, remote learning and more.
Out of the Hamster Wheel : Renounce the constant stress, organise everyday work (2024) This book shows how to live according to the motto "less is more", to organize oneself accordingly and thus to change job and private life in the long term. We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance.
Rush Hour. Don't Stress. just Do One Thing at a Time (2024) there is an anti-stress remedy for every situation. Even if all the demands that come crashing down on us constantly suggest otherwise, there is a simple solution for almost all problems. And that is: Let stress densely, relaxed you can do everything! We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance.

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Get Active

TO HELP MAKE A MORE ACTIVE COMMUNITY:

Start a walking group with friends, neighbours, or co-workers.
Make the streets safer for walking by driving the speed limit and yielding to people who walk.
Consider joining a low- or no-cost exercise group or an office sports team such as soccer, tennis or netball.
Try different activities to find the ones you really enjoy, and have fun while being active

Make Connections

Social Wellness Toolkit From the time you’re born, your relationships help you learn to navigate the world. You learn how to interact with others, express yourself, conduct everyday health habits, and be a part of different communities from those around you. Positive social habits can help you build support systems and stay healthier mentally and physically. Flip each card below for checklists on how to improve your health in each area. Click on the images to read articles about each topic. You can also print the checklists separately or all together to share with others or as a reminder to yourself.

To find new social connections:
Join a group focused on a favorite hobby.
Take a class to try something new.
Try yoga, tai chi, or another new physical activity.
Join a band, or orchestra.
Help at a community garden or park.
Volunteer at a school, library, or hospital.
Participate in neighborhood events.
Join a local community group.
Travel to different places and meet new people

Websites

'Learn to Look After You' - WA Also includes a PDF Download for the Community Toolkit. This Community Toolkit will continue to be updated as new assets are made available. The toolkit provides information and campaign materials for professional and community groups to assist Western Australians in increasing their personal skills to manage their feelings in response to difficult situations. The resources in this toolkit have been developed to assist you to extend the reach of the ‘Learn to Look After You’ campaign in your community, including radio ads and social media assets.
5 Ways to Wellbeing - Quiz This set of questions indicates your current state of overall wellbeing. Answer the questions in the order that they appear.
Act Belong Commit - Mentally Healthy WA Quiz We hope it inspires you to live an Act Belong Commit life to improve your mental health and wellbeing.
Activities for a stronger mental wellbeing - Queensland Govt. Strong mental wellbeing gives you resilience in the face of life’s challenges and is something we can all benefit from. Fortunately, you can improve your mental wellbeing by making small changes to your daily routine The building blocks Activities Stories Resources
Alcohol and mental health Alcohol and mental health are closely linked. Alcohol use can negatively affect your mood, thoughts and feelings, and contribute to the development, or worsening of, mental health issues over time.
Alcohol Think Again - Resources and Tools Discusses Alcohol in relation to your health, community, young people, pregnancy. Includes an Interactive Bofy tool and posters to support effects of drinking in Resources link.
Bite Back Mental Fitness (Black Dog Institute) Mental Fitness Check-up Are you getting the most out of life or letting good experiences pass you by? Personality Quiz Get the lowdown on your personality. Thank Tank Did you know writing down the things you’re grateful for can increase levels of happiness? Use THANK TANK to capture life’s awesome moments. Miguel a Amutio Mindfulness Quiz Are you getting the benefits of living in the moment? Snap That Photography is an awesome way to practise mindfulness. It clears your head and trains your brain to focus!
Campaign resources and publications - Think Mental Health - WA Mental Health Infographics 'Learn to Look After You' campaign 'Be positive. Be connected. Be active' campaign 'Talking and listening are powerful' campaign
Mental health and wellbeing toolkit - Main Page Victoria Schools - mental health and wellbeing toolkit Parents and carers – mental and wellbeing health toolkit Students - mental health and wellbeing toolkit
Mental health self-assessment checklist (K10) The questions in this checklist relate to how you have been feeling over the past four weeks. Click the box next to each question that best reflects how you are feeling.
Strong Spirit Strong Mind - Aboriginal Mental Health - WA Strong Spirit Strong Mind Aboriginal Programs provides culturally secure information and resources that aim to increase awareness of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs related harm and improve social and emotional wellbeing among Aboriginal people.
Student Wellness Kit - Victoria Tips on building mental health Young people can work on building positive mental health at any time. If you or a friend need help with mental health Find out where to get help if you're worried about your mental health or want to help a friend. Common mental health concerns for young people Information on anxiety, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol use, feeling unsafe, discrimination, and bullying.
Think Mental Health - WA The Think Mental Health education campaign is part of a comprehensive approach in Western Australia that aims to build mental health and wellbeing and reduce mental health issues with a view to reducing Western Australia’s suicide rate. It supports other initiatives to prevent and reduce suicide in Western Australia. The Think Mental Health education campaign’s focus is on assisting the Western Australian community to connect with the best information, support and services for their particular situation, without duplicating the good work already being done.
This Way Up - Coping & Resilience Tools Physical Health Psychological Health Financial Support Parenting Support Relationship Support Business Support Free Online Programs to Support Your Wellbeing Free Stress Test
Transforming Indigenous Mental Health & Wellbeing Bringing cultural ways and healing into mental health and wellbeing systems to better serve the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing Project (2021). Links to study.
The Y Wellness Resources - YMCA Take a look at some of our mental health and wellbeing resources below.