How We Can Support Your Wellbeing
If you want to feel happier, healthier, worry less and sleep more, then these sessions are for you
The My Wellbeing Course, run by our Health Coaches, is designed to provide wellness clients with the tools they need to be able to manage their thoughts, feelings and emotions to have a positive impact on their everyday lives. This 4-week course of 1 hour sessions, provides a mixture of practical work, group discussions, activities, information and resources to equip you with the tools you need to manage your health and wellbeing.
Over the 4 weeks we discuss different aspects of Mental Wellbeing which include:
- Self-awareness
- Understanding thoughts, feeling and behaviours
- Understanding habits
- Stress and Pressures
- Food and Mood
- Physical Activity
- Sleep
The course offers you an additional blanket of knowledge and support. Each session tackles a different topic so everyone can leave with something that suits them.
You will receive a Free Journal to take you through the 6 weeks programme that is designed to support and enhance what you learn in the sessions as well as to provide you with a practical tool to aid you with your Mental Wellbeing long term.
Importance of Wellbeing:
- Helps you to perform everyday tasks with more ease
- Supports your overall wellbeing
- Can help with your confidence and self-esteem
- More awareness of your personal needs
- Builds your resilience
- Feel in control
- Manage your health conditions
- Cope with your thoughts, feelings and emotions
- Does not take a lot of time to incorporate into your life.
- Can be done socially
Clients that have completed the programme have said:
“I have to make time for myself, I cannot help everyone else if I’m running on empty myself.”
“The importance of making time to look after my mental health.”
“How to cope with stress in a healthy way”
“Circles of control, being self aware of thoughts feelings and emotions and how these can impact my positive and negative thoughts”
“Meditation techniques & mindful eating.”
“To give myself time and not feel guilty about doing so.”
“Being aware of eating habits and missing meals when stressed and in pain. Now trying to think about fuelling body by having something small regularly”
See our latest Wellbeing course timetable below:
| Start Date | Venue | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 9th May | Civic Centre I Collaboration Suite | 13:00-14:15 |
| Tuesday 14th May | Virtual | 18:00-19:15 |
| Tuesday 4th June | Jo Cox House, Batley | 13:00-14:15 |
Please DO NOT take part in any of these while you are driving or using machinery.
#1 Body Scan
Body scans can help us relax and to release tension. They can also help in those times when we are feeling flooded with strong emotions such as anxiety or anger. This body scan starts at our feet and works up through the body to our head. When we relax our body zone by zone, it becomes almost impossible to also be stressed, anxious, angry or otherwise overwhelmed with difficult emotions.
#2 Breathing Exercise
Breathing exercises can help you lower stress in the body by allowing your body to feel like it does when you are relaxed. When you breathe deeply, your brain receives a message to be calm and relax. Your brain then sends a message to your body which allows the heart rate and breathing rate to lower and your blood pressure decrease. Your nervous system becomes soothed, just by choosing to take control of your breath, as a result your mind becomes calmer and more still.
#3 Mindfulness Technique
In this exercise you will learn how to put some distance between yourself and troublesome thoughts by watching them float away. You can’t stop a worry or negative thought however hard you try, so when they arrive, let them come and then let them float right on by. If you don’t engage with them, they can’t stick to you.
#4 Grounding
By re-focusing on your body and what you’re physically feeling, you get out of your head and divert your mind away from anxious or stressful thoughts and into the moment.
#5 Progressive Muscle Relaxation
In this relaxation technique, you focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing each muscle group starting from your toes and progressively working your way up to your neck and head. This can help you focus on the difference between muscle tension and relaxation and can become more aware of physical sensations.
