Social Wellbeing
Why Social Wellbeing Improves our Mental Health?
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A safety net built on healthy relationships with family and friends can help you feel secure and supported.
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Meaningful social connections can lower the risk of anxiety and depression. A healthy social net also helps you develop emotional resilience, the assertiveness to manage challenging moments in your life and helps you recover from stressful situations.
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Cultivating and nurturing these skills in social situations will boost your self-esteem.
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A quality social group can encourage healthy physical activities, as well as healthy eating and habits.
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How can we achieve Social Wellbeing?
We will help you in this journey and will now highlight for you some important connections, enabling you to choose the ones that suits you the most to achieve a healthy social net.
Education
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Social wellbeing is one important aspect of life that can lead to academic success. Good education can also promote a healthy social life and develop with it a sense of community. Educational institutions should make you feel free from all forms of violence, discrimination and stigma, and are places where you have the opportunity to build healthy relationships and aim for common goals. Having a good education also gives you more self-confidence and thereby boosts your self-steem. Improving your education also gives you more opportunities to do better financially, and open more doors for quality relationships in your life.
Employment
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You can cultivate social wellbeing at work when you feel that sense of belonging and identify with the business as a whole, and consequently you may have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships. The healthy workplace will quite often builds your skill to work as a team and promote healthy and cooperative relationships.
It is important that a workplace has the resources to support employees experiencing mental illness. Ideally you should may have the chance to forment social relationships with co-workers, to interact with management and to participate in activities both inside and outside of workplace. Such opportunities build up your confidence and help you to grow with a more positive approach.
Community
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Belonging to a community gives you that sense of belonging to something bigger and makes you feel that you are not alone in your journey of self-improvement. In a community setting you have the chance to connect to others with a common goal; it also makes you feel safe and gives you a sense of fulfillment. If you don´t already belong to one, we advise you to address the communities that provide social wellness (e.g. sporting communities, bushwalking communities, beach communities, multicultural communities, etc.)
Personal Interests and Hobbies
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Sharing a hobby or a personal interest with a friend, a group or a community can improve your life, helping you to relax and reduce stress. Hobbies can release dopamine and endorphins (feel-good chemicals) in the brain which help you to improve your mood and strengthen your resilience and motivation, even in hard times. Sharing a common interest promotes your creativity, self-expression and sense of purpose. For example you could share a common interest with others by participating in groups dedicated to sports, music, dancing, cooking, gardening, arts and crafts etc., as well as volunteering in chartitable organizations etc.
