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    Take Care of Your Mental Health

    While you’re shaping up your must-do checklist this term, please don’t forget a critical item: take good care of your mental health and well-being. Here’s…

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    Taking Care of Your Mental Health after Collective Trauma

    Trauma can make it hard to go about your normal life. It can shake your sense of safety – on campus and beyond. Although people…

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    Taking Care of Your Mental Health When the News is Awful

    Not a week goes by without awful, troubling, traumatic, angering, frustrating, and scary news. The news of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February…

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    Taking Care of Yourself Over Break

    Winter break has arrived, and many folks on campus feel lighter with fewer responsibilities. It feels good to wrap up the loose ends of the…

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    Taking the Long View on You

    Fitness, Nutrition, and Sustained Physical Wellbeing When a new year starts, it’s common to think about “getting back on track” with fitness or nutrition. But…

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    Tar Heels Can Support Each Other

    After a traumatic event, we can benefit from the care and compassion offered through dialogue with our campus community. As Tar Heels, we value conversations…

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    The Transformative Power of Gratitude

    In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it’s easy to overlook the simple yet profound practice of gratitude. Expressing and considering gratitude has…

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    Thriving Through Community

    Where do we start? Navigating mental health as a college student, especially in a high-performing setting like UNC-Chapel Hill, can be difficult. Mental health is…

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    Trauma Reminders: Anniversaries

    This Wednesday, Aug. 28, marks one year since the tragic loss of Zijie Yan, Ph.D., who was killed in a shooting on our campus. Dr.…

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    UNC Partnership with JED

    UNC Chapel Hill began a partnership with JED Campus in February 2022. This is an intensive 4-year collaboration to assess and strengthen resources related to…