Category Archives: Human Health

Wellness Wednesday: Environmental Wellbeing Tip – Provide an area for employees to eat lunch outdoors. Make meetings outside or go for walks as a team. Take fresh air breaks.

Wellness Wednesday: Emotional Wellbeing Tip – Incorporate healthy animal interactions in your workplace. Take time to see healthy pigs!

Wellness Wednesday: Creative Wellbeing Tip – Make a commitment to take the class you’ve always wanted: ceramics, photography, singing, learning a new instrument, painting, creative writing– check out your library or other community resources for what may be available in your area.

Physical and mental well-being are both important. But sometimes discussing physical health issues is more comfortable than talking about mental health concerns. Conversations about mental health help people around you feel empowered to seek the support they need.

Long hours, physical labor, financial stress, isolation, and uncertainty due to weather and market conditions — these factors can contribute to increased stress, anxiety and depression among farmers.

Wellness Wednesday – Financial Wellbeing Tip: Create a budget and stick to it! If you aren’t sure how to do that, there are various apps such as Mint or Wally that can assist you.

Wellness Wednesday – Intellectual Wellbeing Tip: Institute a weekly journal club with your colleagues, where you rotate choosing a recent scientific article for everyone to read and come together to discuss. How about something from the latest issue of the Journal of Swine Health and Production, or a paper presented at the AASV Annual Meeting?

Wellness Wednesday – Creative Wellbeing Tip: Seek out inspiration: visit museums, attend live concerts, attend a book reading, take in a sunset. How about the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver, Colorado?

Wellness Wednesday – Creative Wellbeing Tip: Make it a family or friends affair. Games such as Cranium provide a fun way to flex your creative and intellectual muscles.

Wellness Wednesday – Spiritual Wellbeing Tip: Experiment with yoga, tai chi, qigong, or any other form of movement that connects the body with the breath. You will reap benefits in regards to stress and anxiety reduction, and also indirectly foster a deeper relationship with yourself.