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Journey to Wellness

Journey to Wellness

Being healthy, or keeping your workforce healthy, can be hard. Wading through all the resources can be overwhelming. We've cut through the noise and bundled key materials into free monthly toolkits to keep you and your family, friends and employees healthy.
Journey to Wellness: May - Prevent stroke

May — Prevent stroke

Refresh your knowledge so you can help prevent stroke and react quickly to warning signs.

Think FAST
Journey to Wellness: April - Discover your joy

April — Discover your joy

Explore your passions and purpose to reignite your joy and live a more fulfilled, content life.

Start exploring
Journey to Wellness: March - Take charge of your chronic pain

March — Take charge of your pain

Living with daily pain can be debilitating. Many people experience chronic pain. It's a real health problem, but you're not alone.

Take charge now
Journey to Wellness: February - Exercise your heart

February — Exercise for your heart

Maintaining heart health is crucial for overall well-being. Regular exercise plays a key role in achieving and sustaining heart health, reducing the risk of heart disease and promoting overall cardiovascular fitness.

Get your heart pumping
Journey to Wellness: January - Exploring your relationship with alcohol

January — Explore your relationship with alcohol

Do you know how much alcohol is too much? Explore small ways to reduce your consumption.

Rethink your alcoholic drink
Journey to Wellness: December - Be Healthy During the Holidays

December — Be healthy during the holidays

Plan ahead this holiday season to set boundaries to help you maintain healthy habits, minimize stress and find joy.

Set healthy boundaries
Journey  to Wellness: November - Reduce Your Diabetes Risk

November — Reduce your diabetes risk

Type 2 diabetes is typically caused by diet and lifestyle. While this disease develops over time, you can start taking steps today to lower your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Lower your risk
Journey  to Wellness: October - Prevent Cancer

October — Reduce your cancer risk

Reduce cancer risk with healthy lifestyle choices, preventive vaccines and screening, and avoiding toxins.

Start today
Journey to Wellness: September - Benefit From a Grateful Heart

September — Benefit from a grateful heart

Would you like to feel happier? Practice gratitude to increase your self-esteem, strengthen relationships and feel more satisfied with life.

Give thanks
Journey to Wellness: August - Rethink your drink

August — Rethink your drink

Hydration is more than quenching your thirst—it helps keep your body running well. It might be time to rethink your drink if you often reach for drinks with hidden ingredients and extra calories.

Hydrate for health
Journey to Wellness: July - Eat Smarter

July — Eat smarter

It’s important to live a lifestyle that includes eating healthy foods that nourish your body. This will help protect you from many chronic noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Nourish well
Journey to Wellness: June - Exercise your brain

June — Exercise your brain

Just like physical fitness is good for your body, cognitive fitness can help keep your brain active and increase its vitality. Slow your memory decline, and lower your risk of developing dementia.

Stimulate your brain
Journey to Wellness: May - Reduce stress and anxiety

May — Reduce stress and anxiety

You can't always control the challenges that you face, which can be stressful, overwhelming and cause anxiety. Tools and lifestyle changes can help you respond better to these challenges.

Ease your mind
Journey to Wellness: April - Make social connections

April — Make social connections

Having a strong support system and social connections can have many benefits. Positive relationships and finding a sense of purpose is vital to your physical, mental and cognitive health.

Start connecting
Journey to Wellness: March - Sleep: A key to wellness

March — Sleep: A key to wellness

A good night’s sleep is essential for your physical and mental health. This month, we'll help you adopt simple habits to sleep well, which will help you feel better while you're awake.

Get good sleep
Journey to Wellness: February - Keep your heart healthy

February — Keep your heart healthy

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. Although you don't have control of your genetic risk factors for getting heart disease, you can control several things that can reduce your risk. This month, we want to help you get to know your numbers and try a few lifestyle changes that may make a difference for your heart health.

Love your heart
Journey to Wellness: January - Move More

January — Move more: Getting started

As January ushers in a new year, many people find it a good time to set new goals. These goals commonly shift focus back to ourselves, and our families and lifestyles. This month, we want to help you get started incorporating movement into daily life.

Make a fresh start