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Taking Care of Your Mental Health

Taking Care of Your Mental Health

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

The Canadian Mental Health Association’s Health Meter describes how understanding the characteristics that make up good mental health will help you determine how mentally fit you are. Try their other mental health activities: Work-Life Balance Quiz What’s Your...
Can a work/life balance be achieved?

Can a work/life balance be achieved?

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

This is the question. We hope to achieve a work/life balance but this can be difficult at times, or even impossible. A particular project or a family situation, for example, can take a colossal investment of time. An intense focus impacts on our life’s balance. All...

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School Health Coordinator testimonial

"The Model speaks to young people about taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. The Wheel metaphor is practical and easily understood by any age and could be adapted to a wide range of learning styles. The student-friendly ideas can easily be integrated into curriculum and extra-curricular health promoting lessons and activities. It builds on all of the principles of health promotion."

Teacher testimonial

"Finally we have a framework into which all our work fits like a glove! The Wellness Resource has provided both philosophical and practical threads that logically and creatively tie together the many varied themes we develop in our program."

Counselor testimonial

"As a First Nations Counselor I have adopted the Wellness Wheel Model to address the diverse needs of my students. It encompasses all aspects of life and is not specific to any one culture or society. I not only encourage the students to use the Model, I use it in my own life as well."

Recent Blog Posts

  • Emotional Intelligence from a Teenage Perspective
  • Free lesson plan: Autobiography in 5 short chapters
  • Podcast: Tanya Talaga’s Seven Truths
  • Why it’s time to feel less guilty about screen time
  • We are our Choices

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