Our mental health crashed in 2020. Recovery could take years–CNET, May 2, 2021 COVID-19, lockdowns and financial pressures have inflicted emotional wounds around the world. In the US, anxiety and depression jumped 200% in 2020; in the UK, 31% of people reported depression severe enough to justify “high-intensity psychological support.” Harvard researchers argue that mental health issues rose in a third of the global population, noting:…
Never Alone Summit | Friday, May 21, 2021 Our friends at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation and the Chopra Foundation are reuniting a global community to create the building blocks of a new mental health culture. Hear what’s new and cutting-edge in approaches to support mental health and well-being. It’s time to talk about mental health. While the pandemic has prompted the topic…
Chart Your Mental Wellness Pathways Mental Health Awareness month was introduced in 1949. Since then, organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Wellness and Mental Health America have joined the movement to raise awareness about mental health, fight stigma, and advocate for policies that support people with mental illness and their families. The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) strongly supports this vital awareness campaign. And a…
Curated by the Global Wellness Institute and Renee Moorefield, member of the GWI Advisory Boardand CEO of Wisdom Works Group. “Think light! … Think not just of raising your arms but of extending them outwards and when you are holding them still, think again of reaching still further away from your body. Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed suffering thing. Think of…
Designers Are Rethinking Senior Living—With a Focus on Wellness–Architectural Digest, April 27, 2021 }Since senior living environments emerged as a center of extraordinary crisis during the pandemic, a reevaluation of creating healthy and well spaces for seniors is underway. Doctors Harness the Power of Human Connections (Prescribing Social Time)–New York Times, April 28, 2021 In the next few decades, the global aging population will skyrocket…
Making wellbeing a policy priority: lessons from the 2021 World Happiness Report–The Brookings Institution, April 6, 2021 Every year, the World Happiness Report tracks individual life satisfaction and the emotional “temperature” of societies around the world. In the new report, three lessons stand out for improving societal wellbeing and sustainable economies (the two go hand-in-hand): (1) Mental health has declined—especially among the most vulnerable; (2)…
