Why it’s Important for Businesses to Ensure Good Health for All Employees
As India continues to develop, it is also experiencing a significant increase in chronic diseases. “The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that by 2030, 70% of deaths in India will be due to chronic diseases.”
Additionally, “poor mental health amongst employees is costing Indian employers around Rs 1.1 lakh crore ($14 billion) per year due to absenteeism,...
How to be Mindful of Boundaries as Managers & Leaders
It is a well-known and well-accepted fact that boundaries for leaders, as well as managers, are necessary.
Healthy boundaries in the workplace, by leaders as well as managers, can influence their ability to motivate and manage others, for the better, thereby enabling their employees to be more free, more productive and more creative.
But before setting boundaries, pause and reflect. Are you...
How to Overcome Over-thinking?
Overthinking is when you worry about or are fixated on the same thought repeatedly. It is absolutely natural to contemplate and think about something when decisions need to be made or a situation needs to be analyzed. But when you are unable to get the thoughts out of your head, it leads to overthinking.
We all overthink sometimes. The problem is when we cannot turn off the overthinking...
How To Deal With Your Mental Health During An Ugly Break-Up
Going through a break-up is never pleasant. The feelings that a break-up elicits range from being traumatized, to agonised to numbness, to sporadic bursts of crying and emotionality. It involves tons of “Why’s?”, “Wasn’t I good enough?”, “Where did I go wrong?”, “My life is over” etc..
Even if a break-up is initiated by you in order to get out of a toxic or harmful relationship, you...
How to Manage your Mental Health on Difficult Days
Not all days are the same. Some are great, some are passable, some not so good, and some are really hard to get through. The great days are a breeze, we manage to deal with the passable and the not-so-good, but the hard ones are a challenge, and truly test our tenacity and mettle.
We have all had those days where nothing seems to be going right or in the way we expected it to; whether it’s at...
Foods that will Supercharge your Immune System
Apart from mental wellness and well – being, physical well-being is equally important for our health and what we eat impacts both our physical as well as our mental well-being and health. Eating healthy is important for us to keep our body in check and avoid diseases and illnesses. While we’re all susceptible to falling sick, there are ways to ensure that our immune system and our bodies are...
Mental Health – Daily Check In Questions
Most of us have read the capers of Winnie the Pooh; his assorted group of friends and Christopher Robin. Each of these friends look up to Christopher for help and guidance in times of need during their adventures. I recall, vividly, a piece of advice that Christopher Robin gives Pooh, “Promise me that you’ll always remember – you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem...
Signs & Symptoms of Depression | KelpHR
HIDDEN SIGNS OF DEPRESSION
Think Robin Williams and we all remember the 4-time Oscar nominee, famous comedian, actor par excellence, entertaining people with his light, breezy roles in Hollywood films—always smiling, laughing, making people laugh. It came as a shock to the world when he died on Aug 11, 2014—by suicide. What made it even more shocking was that this effervescent actor was...
How not to Stress Over an Impending Appraisal
Performance at the workplace has always played a dual role – of motivating and also of causing concerns. We want to do our best and achieve our goals. But despite our efforts, that time of the year when appraisals take place, always causes a sense of anxiety.
In the years following the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations have reevaluated their strategies and measurement of performance has...
The Signs and Symptoms of Social Anxiety
We are all familiar with the feeling of discomfort and nervousness in some social situations. Whether it be clamming up while meeting someone new, walking into a room full of strangers, or public speaking. These experiences aren’t really thrilling for anyone, but most people can get through them. However, if one experiences social anxiety, also commonly referred to as “social phobia”, the...