May 1, 2025
What Does Mental Health Mean to You?
The answer is different for everyone. How we deal with our own mental health is a deeply personal aspect of our well-being. No two people experience it the same way. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Whether you take care of your mental well-being through meditation, movement, creative expression, or connecting with loved ones, Yale benefits support your journey.
Discover helpful articles and videos to help you manage stress, channel positivity and more.
- Find Your Calm in Seconds (breathing exercise)
- Color Your Way to Calm (coloring pages)
- Declutter Your Mind (book hack through Uptime)
- Understanding Anxiety (recorded webinar)
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How to Help: What you can do right now (recorded webinar)
Additional articles through Optum (scroll to the bottom of the webpage)
- Tips to ease daily stress | Optum Wellbeing
- Stress Reasons we feel it and how to manage it | Optum Wellbeing
- What a panic attack may feel like – and how to help | Optum Wellbeing
Opportunities to practice mindfulness, meditation, and yoga
- Yale Community Meditation
- Rise and Shine Yoga on the Mat spring series begins May 2
- Rise and Shine Chair-Assisted Yoga spring series begins May 6
- Renew Office Yoga spring series begins May 6
- How to Meditate and Practice Mindfulness Better (article)
Free premium subscription to the Calm app
- Relieve stress and anxiety, improve sleep, and live more mindfully with a premium subscription to the Calm app, available free to Yale employees. To register and download the app, visit the Calm registration page and enter your company access code “YaleSB”.
- Already have the app? Follow these steps to update your account:
- Open the app
- Go to: Profile > Settings > Link Organization Subscription
- Enter organization code “Optum EWS”
- In the group code field, enter your company access code “YaleSB”