What you need to know
Instead of just surviving stressful times, learn to thrive. Foster a sense of meaning in your life, learn to let go of stressful emotions, create positive emotional moments, and nurture your relationships. Thriving leads to better health outcomes and work performance as well as higher levels of life satisfaction.
Coaching Help If You Need It
Sandia health coaches can help you improve your mental and emotional well-being, manage stress, find your purpose in life and more.
Some areas on which you can focus include:
- Practicing mindfulness and meditation
- Improving work-life balance
- Developing stress management skills
- Developing resilience
- Nurturing relationships
- Finding joy
- Deepening social connections at work or in the community
- Acceptance
- Creating meaningful goals
- Managing negativity and producing positivity
- Broadening perspective
Our health coaches can help you develop the skills you need to become your best self, including coping and resiliency, stress management, and relationship building. Call Employee Health & Wellbeing (numbers below) to request a stress appointment.
What’s happening this month
Every month we offer classes and opportunities to learn new thriving skills, including Mind-Body Recharge.
Check the HR Events Calendar for details about the classes and events offered this month. Use the filter Health: Thrive/Stress Management to make your search easier.
Resources and Supporting Activities
- Employee assistance program – Learn more about the Sandia resources available to help you and your family members deal with life stressors, whether it’s a work-related, personal, or family issue.
- Energy Hubs – Our Energy Hub locations are spaces for mindfulness, meditation, stretching, and movement that can help you recharge, restore, and renew your mind and body for increased productivity, health, and safety.
- Schedule a biofeedback or stress appointment with a health coach.
- Health on the Go session – bring a health coach to your organization, center, or division meeting for individualized health education on how to thrive, manage stress, and use our tools and resources to live well.
- Fitness classes (try out yoga or tai chi) – Our staff of certified exercise professionals offer a variety of onsite group fitness classes. To participate, you must complete the PAR form.
- Emotional Well-being – Comprehensive and integrated list of Sandia resources that support mental and emotional well-being
- Wellworks For You – track your activity and healthy habits
- Virtual Fitness classes – (try out yoga) – Our staff of certified exercise professionals offer a variety of onsite group fitness classes. To participate, you must complete the PAR form.
- Mind-Body Recharge – Improve mental focus and energy without calories or caffeine in this short session designed to recharge you for the rest of the day with a guided meditation practice and/or movement break.
- Take 10 Initiative – High performance requires recovery, so take a 10-minute restorative break at the end of your meetings.
- Thrive Video From the Digital Media Library – Browse our library of past stress management education classes under the Thrive category.
- Nine Ways Mindfulness Reduces Stress (article)
Contact Employee Health & Wellbeing
Preventive Health Services (New Mexico)
505-284-4700, Option 1 (phone lines open at 7 a.m.)
MO307 (behind Buildings 831 and 832)
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT, Monday through Friday
Preventive Health Services (California)
925-294-3500
Building 925 and MO32/Fitness Hub
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday
Become Your Best Self
Our health coaches can help you develop the skills you need to become your best self, including coping and resiliency, stress management, and relationship building. Call Employee Health & Wellbeing to request a stress appointment. Contact the stress team at less-stress@sandia.gov.