May is Better Sleep Month.  Sleep is important for one’s mental health, what do you do to get enough sleep?

(source: The Greatist)

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. 

~Irish Proverb

April is National Humor Month, laughter is a great way to help you relax and destress.  What are some things that make you laugh?

It is bad to suppress laughter.  It goes back down to your hips. 

~Author Unknown

Stress affects all of us in different ways and on different levels, but it can have a negative impact on your mental health. What are some things you do to destress?  Do you meditate? Run? Relax with friends and family?

Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You

(photo credit: Hartmut Fokken)

Come join us for our 3rd Annual Out of the Darkness 5k Walk on Tuesday, April 23rd from 12PM-1PM!  The walk is an event to increase awareness about suicide prevention, raise funds for research, and honor loved ones lost to suicide. Please register here.

April is National Counseling Awareness Month.  Here at Ohlone we have academic counselors you can go to for academic advice, goal setting, career planning, and personal concerns.  For more information about academic counselors, visit their website here.  We also have a personal counselor at the student health center that can address your emotional well-being.  To schedule an appointment and to learn more, visit the health center website here.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.

~Francesco Guicciardini

(photo credit: Hartmut Fokken)

Today is World Health Day!  The theme for this year’s World Health Day is blood pressure.  Your blood pressure can be affected by your emotions, what are you doing to ensure you have a healthy heart?  To find out more about World Health Day and this year’s theme, visit the World Health Organization website.

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything

~Arabic Proverb

This week is National Public Health week, a time to recognize advances in health education and what it has done to better our lives today.  This year’s focus is on how preventing diseases and saving lives can help save money by lowering healthcare spending.  What are some things you do to stay healthy?

Come join us for our 3rd Annual Out of the Darkness 5k Walk on Tuesday, April 23rd from 12PM-1PM!  The walk is an event to increase awareness about suicide prevention, raise funds for research, and honor loved ones lost to suicide. Please register here.

Free tickets can be picked up at the box office Tuesday-Thursday 12PM-7PM and Friday-Saturday 12PM-5PM.