Feeling overwhelmed or stressed?

Cultivating mindfulness can help you deal with stress, anxiety, negative emotions and help sharpen your ability to focus. Try setting aside a few minutes to breathe along with this mindful breathing GIF to calm a stressed out mind. Just relax and focus on the sensation of your breath in and out.

30 Days of Gratitude – Day 1

Three Good Things Campaign: It’s easy… Before leaving work for the next 30 days simply write down three good things that happened to you today or three things that you are thankful for. Gratitude has a powerful impact on our physical and emotional well-being. Click Here for the Three Good Things Campaign worksheet

Earn up to $100 on your November paycheck!

Did you know that you can earn up to a $100 well-being credit by completing healthy activities between January 1 and September 30, 2020? USG Well-being has tools to help you develop healthy habits and earn money at the same time. Full-time employees and spouses enrolled in a USG healthcare plan can earn well-being credits […]

Tips to Boost Your Daily Steps

If you’re struggling to meet your daily step target or simply looking for some easy ways to get more active, trying some of these methods may help you up your step count without really trying: Fidget – Forget what you were told as a child and go ahead and fidget! Pace up and down as […]

Thinking of Skipping Vacation? Don’t!

Per USO Well-being – The following tip has been adapted from an article in Harvard Business Review (HBR):        We all need breaks. Take them. Burnout is real, and being non-stop in work mode actually hurts your performance. Vacations are first and foremost about refreshing one’s self. We can slip into thinking that […]

Emotional and Mental Health

Did you know USG provides an employee assistance program to employees and family members with free, comprehensive support and confidential counseling 24/7/365 through the KEPRO Employee Assistance Program (EAP)? You can receive up to 4 free counseling sessions per issue, along with unlimited work/life support resources. Call 844-243-4440 or visit the website www.EAPHelplink.com and enter […]

Face Coverings Required on Campus

In the best interest of the health and safety of our community and based on instructions from the USG, effective July 15th all GHC employees and students must wear face coverings when inside GHC buildings (see usg.edu/coronavirus for more details). For more information about GHC’s return to campus and other coronavirus information please visit chargeahead.highlands.edu