Combat Stress with Tools for Physical Wellness

We are coming to month’s end again, and the stress is REAL. While the leadership at EPM can’t make that stress go away for our team members, we can give them tools and strategies to help combat the negative effects of the stress within this industry.

EPM encourages the people in our organization to continuously work on improving themselves and take advantage of opportunities to gain knowledge, increase skills, be a lifelong learner, and then share those best practices. This goes for wellness as much as it does for industry skills, so I brought my own personal trainer, Mitchel Black, in for our Town Hall last week to speak with the organization and help give them tools to combat the external stressors with tangible strategies for physical wellness and nutrition.

Mitchel personally helps me get to a place of less-suck every day. He has the advanced education, experience, and passion for coaching others that we love to see in our experts, and he has the desire to help people do better every day that we look for at EPM.

One thing about health and nutrition is that it’s not just about how great you look, it's how you feel. And we definitely want our employees feeling great so they can perform at their best every day. Mitchel gave an hour of his time helping our team with simple, valuable tools to help reduce the individual stress and confusion that goes into managing health and help give beneficial advice/strategies for what to do going forward. 

What we want for our organization is to make sure we feel good, and improve the quality of our lives. Feeling good, feeling confident, sleeping better, and prolonging the amount of time that our physical bodies can function well doing everyday activities - what a great way to focus on our personal development.

Mitchel broke down indicators that improve the success rate for lasting care for our body and gave us tools to reach health and wellness goals in a sustainable way. The goal of the talk was to take away the frustration and failures that we all face and present us with 3 easy objectives to take away that we could use to hold it together and be the most productive.  

The 3 takeaways he started with to rev our metabolism and start getting benefits from our bodies aren’t complicated at all. They’re things each and every one of us can do to improve our wellness no matter what stage of fitness we are currently in: Drink ? your body weight in water daily, regularly get 6-8 hours of sleep without waking up in the middle of the night and without hitting snooze (he suggested supplements like Melatonin to help with this), and engage in movement that challenges your brain and moves multiple joints at a time for 25 mins a day. 

Seems simple and they’re probably concepts we have all heard before on some level - water, sleep, exercise-, but Mitchel went deeper and did an extended Q & A with our team, empowering us to learn more by reading valuable research he suggests, and backing up his strategies/giving tools to go forward with resources for real information to enrich our knowledge base and get the things in our bodies to work better.

We do physical training and classes within our organization online so employees nation-wide can access the benefits. We don’t want to take things for granted and want to keep the momentum going to grow and strengthen our wellness. If we make ourselves better, we can be better for those we serve. Mental strength comes through physical wellness and nutrition. When we have that strength, we can continue to empower others every day.