Your mspWellness Update

Friday, April 13, 2018

Find out how your company can receive free tools, resources and technical assistance to help assess, plan and implement a workplace wellness plan custom-designed for your location. Check out www.mspwellness.com for more information.

April is Stress Awareness Month

Signs you're way too stressed at work—and how you can feel better

April is National Stress Awareness month, but many of us might not be aware of how stressed we are or why we are stressed in the first place.

Although a constant state of stress has become the new norm for many working adults, the physical and mental toll is crippling their chances at success, workplace and happiness experts Annie McKee and Emma Seppälä argue.

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How to make stress your friend

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

Featured Workplace Wellness Resources

Use Challenges to set goals, motivate yourself, and challenge your friends! You can track your results and compare them to the other members in the MapMyWalk community. Prizes are given away for certain challenges so hurry up and join one today!

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How to combat 'high levels of stress and unhappiness' at work

Worker bees are struggling to preserve work-life balance and, increasingly, their mental health.

Work stress is really getting to us — and there’s no relief in sight. Women, especially, are unhappy, but male co-workers hardly are dancing on their desks. Fully 70 percent of women ranked their stress level at 5 or higher out of 10. More than half the women would not seek the same kind of career if they lost their job tomorrow.

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Meet the mspWellness Committee - Courtney Wilkes

How does your role at Haworth help you to make workplace wellness choices not only for your own office, but for others as well?

With my role at Haworth, I have the opportunity to work directly with clients to imbed wellness into the design of workspaces. At an individual scale, Haworth can provide ergonomic furniture; on a larger scale, we can work with project teams to ensure the entire office landscape supports movement throughout the day. At Haworth, we do a lot of research to support the positive returns organizations can see on their investment in wellness programs. We look to both quantitative and qualitative measures and find that many of the most impactful results are considerably harder to measure.

Did You Know?

75 percent of healthcare costs are associated with chronic illness — and stress is the No. 1 cause of chronic illness.

Long-term stress can disrupt nearly all of the body's processes and increase the risk for numerous health problems — including diabetes, obesity and stroke.

2018 Evening of Hope Gala Nominations

Do you know someone whose work changes lives? Does their work impact the community at large and increase the quality of life for those in the Twin Cities area? If so, consider nominating them as the Catalyst for Community Engagement Honoree for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s 2018 Evening of Hope Gala.

Nominations can be submitted online or for an email form or questions contact Tovah Domenick.

About mspWellness

mspWellness is the result of a partnership between the Minneapolis Regional Chamber (MRC) and the Minneapolis Health Department (MHD). MRC and MHD are working together to assist business members create healthier work environments.

This partnership is made possible by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) and Community Wellness Grant, funding that serves as a powerful catalyst for creating healthier communities. Through SHIP, the Minneapolis Health Department partners with schools, neighborhoods, worksites, and clinics to make sustainable community driven changes that help everyone eat healthy, be active, and live tobacco free.

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