Wellness & Well-being Highlights November 24th
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of November 24, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog provides us a look at a brutal onsite death of a woman construction worker—to how athletes attend to their mental health—to how a lawyer’s passion influences High School students’ futures.
This week I would like to discuss the importance of self-care during the upcoming holidays. In order to be there for others, one must FIRST attend to her/his own needs! It is no secret that family gatherings can be more stressful than joyful at times. For some, mental health challenges will ebb and flow for the next month more so vs other times during the year. Now is the time to develop a strategy to prepare for these potential stressors. What can you do now? Breathe![1] Simply put, learning proper breathing techniques can move you out of the fight or flight part of your brain and into the problem-solving portion of your brain…in essence, allowing a reset. As the old saying goes. You cannot pour from an empty cup! Here’s some clear and concise advice from Arthur Ashe:
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
In addition, I urge you to PLEASE take a few minutes now to review the array of assistance available in the recently released STL Building Trades Wellness Coalition’s Resource link provided below.[2] In other words, be intentionally proactive so that when a need arises, you are prepared with an array of options. To this end, one can access help from obtaining food or diapers to mental health services to assistance with utilities and so on. Please share this information as you see fit. And, remember that 988 is available 24/7/365. Use it BEFORE the issues you are faced with become a crisis.
I wish you and yours a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/
Sources: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmt1Znux58&t=14s
[2] https://constructforstl.org/stl-building-trades-wellness-coalition-holiday-resource-guide/
Workplace Violence / Construction Worker / Death
Phones / Computers / Aging Brains
Parents / Concussions / Brain Health
MO / Legal Immigrants / Food Assistance
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
Lethal Means Safety: Vets (12/4)
Crisis Response Planning: Vets (12/10)
NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.
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