Healthy Mind

Having a healthy mind is key to your overall health and well-being. A healthy mind includes emotional, psychological and social well-being and affects how you think, feel and act. It works in unity with your body and influences how you handle stress, relate to others and make choices. What you let into your mind affects your body in the same way that what you put into your body effects your mind. Balancing both healthy body and mind is essential for optimal health, both in the present and future.

Mindfulness Resources

• Breath and Balance offers various tools to help manage stress and anxiety.
• Coronavirus: How to Cope with Stress and Anxiety offers tips for coping with stress.
• Depression in Women  offers five things you should know about depression.
• Getting Enough Sleep offers information on the importance of sleep.
• Maternal Mental Health offers resources, printable materials, fact sheet, video and social media library on maternal mental health.
• MentalHealth.gov  offers information for mental wellness.
• Mental Health Matters  offers information and tools for mental health.
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation  offers a guide for progressive muscle relaxation practices.

Substance Use Resources

Alcohol

• Alcohol Program offers information on CDC's alcohol program.
• Watch Binge Drinking  offers information on healthy alcohol consumption.

Smoking & Tobacco Use

• Break up with Tobacco  offers tips and information regarding tobacco use.
• Guide on how to quit smoking  offers guidance on best practices to stop smoking.
• Smoke Free Woman  offers tools for woman to quit smoking.
  
• Tobacco and Cannabis Use and Maternal Health Harms Fact Sheet (PDF)  outlines the health harms caused by cigarette, vape, and cannabis use during pregnancy, as well as prevalence of use before, during, and after pregnancy.
  
• You Quit Two Quit offers guidance and tools to help woman quit smoking.

Drugs and Medications

• Know your Meds  offers information on how medications interact with your body and other supplements or medications you may be taking.
• Let's Talk Cannabis offers information about cannabis and how it affects our body, mind and health.
  
• Street Drugs and Pregnancy  offers information on how drugs can affect pregnancy.
  
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)  offers information and tools to help with substance use and mental health.