Under ‘normal’ circumstances, employees may not be surprised when asked to adapt to changes in their company’s protocols, policies and procedures. However, COVID-19 resulted in employees and employers adapting to work scenarios far outside those normal scenarios. “According to Statistics Canada, 40 per cent of Canada’s workers found themselves working from home as pandemic lockdowns […]Continue readingFive tips for your mental health during your return to onsite work
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Finding Comfort During Trying Times
During trying times, we may lose motivation to continue with our hobbies, cleaning, studying, exercise regime – and this is okay. As The Guardian notes, “In a world of increasing demands on our time and attention, our comfort zones act as predictable spaces of mastery where we can seek refuge when the stress becomes too […]Continue readingFinding Comfort During Trying Times
Managing Your Mental Health in a Customer-Facing Job
If you are an essential service worker who interacts daily with the public, there is a good chance you have become an ear for your customers, listening to concerns and worries associated with this pandemic. Being immersed in other’s trauma, potentially multiple times a day, can be exhausting. And of course, you are facing your […]Continue readingManaging Your Mental Health in a Customer-Facing Job
Talking to your kids about COVID-19
While it may seem like a lifetime ago, March 11, 2020 is the date the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic (CBC News, April 11,2020). Since then, Albertans lives have changed dramatically and we have all been in a constant state of adaptation-to new rules, new circumstances and a new normal. Children and […]Continue readingTalking to your kids about COVID-19
Nurses’ Appreciation Week: Supporting your family and friends on the front lines
We’ve all seen and heard about communities and businesses stepping up to show their appreciation for nurses during COVID-19. Free coffee, discounted meals and the banging of pots and pans in the street. It’s Nurse Appreciation week (May 11-17th) and people are encouraged to recognize the work nurses do on the front lines. Can outsiders […]Continue readingNurses’ Appreciation Week: Supporting your family and friends on the front lines
Canadians are anxious and crave real connection, but say they’re doing “fine”
For Mental Health Week, the Canadian Mental Health Association promotes social connection to protect mental health in these difficult times TORONTO (ONTARIO) May 4, 2020 – Most Canadians rely on shortcuts to describe their emotional state—even during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to new data released today by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in partnership […]Continue readingCanadians are anxious and crave real connection, but say they’re doing “fine”
It’s Mental Health Week – May 4 to 11
Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week –May 4-10 – rallies communities, schools, workplaces and legislatures in a common push for mental health. Because we all have mental health, and we all need to protect it. This year, Mental Health Week is all about social connection. While loneliness and social isolation cause all sorts of […]Continue readingIt’s Mental Health Week – May 4 to 11
Share Your Feedback – Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health Of Albertans
For more than 60 years in Alberta, Canadian Mental Health Association, Alberta Division (CMHA AB) has focused on community-based recovery and support for Albertans impacted by mental illness. We stand with people living in their community as they achieve their wellness goals. As Albertans navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, CMHA AB would like to better understand […]Continue readingShare Your Feedback – Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health Of Albertans
Springtime Mental Health during COVID-19
April is typically a busy month. Between springtime fun and religious holidays, we’re usually gathering for dinners with family, shopping for seedlings and joining together in our faith communities. Unfortunately, the new realities of a global pandemic have put these traditions on hold and instead we are practicing social distancing. Many of us are away […]Continue readingSpringtime Mental Health during COVID-19
Albertans Describe Working from Home and Maintaining their Mental Health
In the matter of a few short days thousands of Albertans moved from getting up and going to work to working from home in response to the intensified precautions related to COVID 19, a global pandemic sweeping across Canada. This transition has been a topic of conversation on virtual meetings that have taken the place […]Continue readingAlbertans Describe Working from Home and Maintaining their Mental Health