This section includes tools and resources for you and those you care about, to help you:
Manage stress
Stress is inevitable in life, including work stress, financial stress and family issues. How we respond to stress can impact our well-being and quality of life. The good news is that there are now many techniques proven to help us manage even stressors that cannot be avoided.
In Managing stress, you’ll find helpful resources to identify and respond to stressors and even some approaches to preventing unnecessary stress.
Some of our favourites are the audio and video clips in Managing anxious or depressive thoughts.
We offer hundreds of different approaches because we all find success with different approaches at different times in our lives. Explore these resources to find what works for you now.
Caregiving responsibilities
Caregivers often face significant stress while balancing work, family, and community commitments. We offer many resources to support caregivers.
Caregiver resources includes information on accessing government services, healthcare, housing, community living, nutrition, and finances. These resources also include information to help with tough conversations about topics like mental health, coping with a chronic or terminal illness, loneliness, addiction, anger or abuse.
Support others
Many of us have friends, co-workers or family members who look to us for help. In addition to the Caregiver resources described above, we offer information to help with:
- Family issues, like family break up, loss or domestic abuse
- Financial stress, including debt or job loss
- Health issues, including mental health, pain and children’s health
- Guidance on having conversations about difficult topics, including:
- Psychosis
- Dementia
- Racism
- Gender identity
- Addiction
- Financial instability
- Alcohol use
- And much more, in the Supportive conversation library
Deal with work issues
Many things at work can cause stress. When we’re able to understand and address these issues effectively, we can significantly reduce work-related stress. We have many resources to help, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for, please contact us and we’re happy to help you find what you need. Some of the resources that may help you include:
- Career review – for when you’re thinking about or engaged in changing jobs.
- Starting a new job – to help you manage the stress of starting something new.
- Dealing with a stressful boss – helps you to limit the harm caused by personalities that may be difficult for you.
- Mental health at work – provides a wide variety of tools and strategies you can use when experiencing stress or illness at work. It also includes information about requesting a work accommodation if you have a mental or physical disability.
- Resolving personal conflict – provides tips and techniques to help you deal more effectively with conflict.
- Working from home – provides strategies to support you in balancing your personal, family and work life.
Thrive
Explore a wealth of free tools and resources to help you thrive at work and in life, designed to foster resilience, emotional intelligence, and overall well-being. Topics include:
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions, as well as effectively navigate the emotions of others.
Take the Emotional intelligence self-assessment to develop a plan for improvement. This plan can help you to improve self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. All of this can improve your relationships at work and at home as well as your personal success.
Resilience
We all juggle personal, family, social, financial and work demands. Any of us could be blindsided by an unexpected crisis, or feel overwhelmed when stressors start to pile up. Resilience is our ability to cope and move through these challenges. The plan for resilience is about building or reinforcing this skill before you need it.
Loss and grief
Grief is a natural response to loss, but may interfere with your ability to thrive if not acknowledged and processed in a healthy way. Learn about the many types of loss, and practical strategies to cope with them.
Additional resources
Approaches for those who are people leaders include strategies to address employee concerns, develop leadership skills and support team building.
Organizational strategies are for decision-makers who are responsible for policies, programs and prevention strategies or to support workplace mental health and psychological health and safety for all.
There are also many free assessments, tools and workshop materials that include slide presentations, facilitator guide and participant handouts.