WEEK 5: MY MINDFULNESS

College is hard. Life is hard. Make sure you aren’t making it harder by ignoring your own mental health. Take breaks, go outside, ask for help, and talk to someone when you need it. 

Connect with our Counseling Services. Our professional counselors help students overcome interpersonal, emotional, and psychological barriers to academic success. Counseling services are confidential, free, and here to help you succeed www.massbay.edu/counseling 

Explore free virtual apps:

• Meditation and Mindfulness:
• Mindfulness Coach Self-Guided Program to help you develop a mindfulness practice 
• Insight Timer Library of free guided meditations and yoga for sleep, stress and anxiety 
• Stress and Anxiety: 
• Savello. Clinically validated techniques for coping with stress, anxiety and depression. 
• Mindshift CBT  Free tools and strategies to help reduce worry, social anxiety and perfectionism  
• Happify 
• SAM Self-Help for Anxiety Management helps you identify what impacts your stress and anxiety and create a personalized stress management tool-kit 

Sign-up to attend one of the Financial Literacy Workshops!

you can also earn a certificate of completion by attending 3 of the 4 workshops!

Presented by the Babson financial literacy project. The Babson Financial Literacy Project (BFLP) is a not-for-profit initiative designed to help young adults acquire the financial knowledge and skills necessary for long-term independence and prosperity. The BFLP teaches important financial lessons through interactive workshops. The program helps participants build lifelong strategies for budgeting, building credit, saving for retirement, and more. Participants do not need any financial expertise.

Visit their website to learn more.

1. October 24 3-4pm Managing your $ to Build Your Best Life
2. November 7 3-4pm Becoming Bank Savvy
3. November 21 11-12pm Understanding your Pay Checks
4. December 5 11-12pm Tips & Tricks for Managing Credit

  Fill out this form to Sign up! 

Connect to Career Services 

• Career Services can offer a wide variety of services, from career exploration and résumé writing, to interviewing skills, internships, and much more! 
• This week, check out their event: 

Staying physically active is important to leading a balanced life! Although exercising indoors and being physically active while going to school online can be more challenging, we also know be physically active can reduce stress and clear your mind so you can focus more and sleep better! 

• Follow our Athletics Department on Social Media:
• https://www.instagram.com/massbayathletics
• https://twitter.com/massbaybucs

• Challenge Yourself this week to try a different kind of activity every day, being active is about overall health and moving your body! 

• Try out Free Virtual Work-Outs
• J&J Official 7-Minute Work-Out Library of exercises and work-outs designed to fit your schedule! 
• Nike Training App Train at home, in the gym, or on the road, with everything from bodyweight sessions, yoga flows, cardio, HIT classes, and full-equipment gym workouts for all fitness levels. 
• Fit On Quick & Effective Workouts from Celebrity Trainers that You Can Do Anywhere! 
• Evolve21 Inclusive exercise app for people of all abilities 
• Daily Yoga More than 100 yoga and meditation classes to help people from all levels. 
• Get some fresh air 
• Whether it’s a 15 minute walk outside or a 10 mile run, make sure you are continuing to get outside for fresh air, and moving around. 
• Turn Off your Electronics! 
• Learn about our Food & Housing Resources 
• We know it’s hard to focus in class when you are hungry, so MassBay staff, faculty, and students have worked to create a wide variety of food resources for our students.
• Check out what is available to you at www.massbay.edu/snacc.
• Food and Housing Resource List 
• Need more help? Contact Marybeth Fletcher, LCSW Case manager/resource specialist mfletcher@massbay.edu, she is here to help!
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