Virtual Wellness Room

"To be of service to others, we must first care for ourselves." - Dalai Lama

What is Wellness?

Wellness is more than just physical health. It’s about finding balance, building resilience, and supporting every part of who you are. Explore the eight dimensions of wellness that nurture your well-being. Click each dimension to learn more and find resources.

Physical Wellness

Involves maintaining a healthy body through regular exercise, proper nutrition, sleep, and preventive healthcare practices.

💧 Water Intake

Staying hydrated supports energy, focus, and overall wellness. Tracking water intake can be an effective strategy for increasing how much water is consumed in a day. Free apps, such as H20-Water Tracker or Water Reminder-Daily Tracker, allows for easy mobile tracking. Or, use this printable water tracker to set daily hydration goals and monitor your progress throughout the week.

📄 Daily Water Intake Tracker
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📈 Habit Building

Healthy habits are the foundation of lasting wellness. Use these printable tools to track progress, stay motivated, and make small changes that lead to big results.

📄 Healthy Habits Tracker
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📄 Create Habits That Stick
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❤️ Cardiovascular Health

Cardiovascular health supports heart function, circulation, and long-term wellbeing.
Life’s Essential 8 highlights eight key behaviors that help reduce the risk of heart disease and support overall health. Explore each of the eight areas below to find simple, actionable ways to support cardiovascular health.

🫀 Life’s Essential 8:

1. Eat Better
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2. Be More Active
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3. Quit Tobacco
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4. Get Healthy Sleep
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5. Manage Weight
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6. Control Cholesterol
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7. Manage Blood Sugar
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8. Manage Blood Pressure
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🥗 Healthy Eating

Simple, balanced meals can support energy, focus, and long-term health. Use this cookbook for quick, practical recipes and ideas that make healthy eating easier to maintain.

📄 Healthier Traditions Cookbook
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Emotional Wellness

Focuses on understanding, managing, and expressing emotions in a healthy way. It includes coping with stress, building resilience, and fostering a positive outlook.

🧠 CredibleMind

Partnered with Horizon Public Health, CredibleMinds is an online wellness resource platform filled with emotional wellbeing support tools, with an option to create an account to track progress, complete and save assessment data, and get recommended resources specifically for you.

Explore CredibleMind

📝 Downloadable Resources

Check out these other downloadable tools designed to support your emotional wellness:

📄 The Worry Window: How to Lock Overthinking Out Of Your Day

📄 The 5 Minutes Burst: Activity To Help Parents Tackle Procrastination

Intellectual Wellness

Social Wellness

Spiritual Wellness

Refers to a sense of purpose, connection, and alignment with personal values. This may include practices such as meditation, mindfulness, or involvement in religious or philosophical beliefs.

🔧 Starling Minds

Starling Minds is immediate, private, and tailored for ALL WCMCA Head Start staff (and their families), offered FREE through NHSA membership. It offers physical & mental health tools to better manage stress, anxiety, burnout and depression.

To register: Click the following link, enter our organization name, and get your access code:
Click here to register for Starling Minds.

Occupational Wellness

Financial Wellness

Environmental Wellness

Featured Wellness Resource

CredibleMind, provided through Horizon Public Health, offers trusted, evidence-based resources to support mental health and overall wellbeing. The platform includes articles, videos, self-assessments, and practical tools for both staff and families. Explore topics like stress management, resilience, parenting support, and emotional wellness.

Creating an account is free and allows your to track your progress. Click the link to check it out!

Visit CredibleMind

WCMCA Health Insurance Member Benefits

Below are resources offered to WCMCA Head Start staff enrolled in WCMCA's Medica health insurance plan, at no additional cost.

Calm Health App

The Calm Health app offers personalized, psychologist-designed resources to support mindfulness, better sleep, stress management, emotional well-being, and navigating life’s challenges. Review the tip sheet below for download and registration instructions.

Calm Health Member Tip Sheet

WCMCA Benefits Guide

This is your go-to resource for understanding and making the most of your available benefits, including mental health resources, preventative care, wellness programs, and more.

View the Employee Insurance Health Benefits Guide

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