Show yourself some love this Valentine's Day! Pick up an affirmation flower and a sweet treat brought to you by Student Health and Wellness. You can also take an extra minute to write a message of gratitude to go with an affirmation flower for a loved one. Expressing gratitude can help people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.
*This event is part of Student Appreciation*
February is upon us and that means a month full of activities to promote healthy relationships, with ourselves and others! Drop by Simcoe Hall between 10am - 12pm to talk with staff Student Health and Wellness staff about healthy relationship topics. You can also grab a healthy relationship kit full of supplies and resources, and learn all about the upcoming events this month covering topics including sexual health, consent, self-love, body positivity, and more!
The dabbers are calling! Join Frazer Phillips, Indigenous Cultural Wellness Facilitator, to try your hand at bingo, win some nutritious prizes, and learn the names of animals in Anishinaabemowin!.
Make sure you are satisfied this Valentine's Day by joining Student Health and Wellness and Pride Central for an education evening with Sex Toy Bingo.
All are welcome- no registration required!
Stop by Chancellor Paterson Library to pick up a journalling kit as part of Student Health and Wellness' Love week. Each kit includes a journal, writing tools and an intro guide to journalling as self-care. Limited kits available, first-come, first served.
Keeping a record of personal thoughts and feelings is particularly helpful in supporting mental health:
safeTALK is a 4-hour, in-person workshop to build skills in suicide prevention. Participants will learn how to recognize and engage with someone thinking about suicide, overcome attitudes that act as barriers to help, talk openly about suicide and connect with intervention resources for further support.
Through presentations, audiovisuals, small group discussion and scenario practice, you will learn a 4-step TALK model and practical steps to help activate a suicide alert that connects people having thoughts of suicide with more specialized intervention care and relevant resources.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), like chlamydia and gonorrhea, can go unnoticed as they don't often cause symptoms so it is important to routinely get STI tests.
Student Health and Wellness, in partnership with the sexual health team at Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, is hosting drop-in, confidential STI testing at the Wellness Centre (OR 1012).
Drop by for a test, get a free slice of pizza, and pick up sexual health supplies for future consensual activities.
The Refresh Sleep program aims to provide Lakehead students, staff and faculty with the skills and strategies to achieve more restful nights.
When you join the Refresh Sleep program, you will receive a weekly email for eight weeks that has an attached PDF with important information and tips that have been proven to help improve sleep. It is encouraged to spend at least thirty minutes per week with the program information. The materials include information about:
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), like chlamydia and gonorrhea, can go unnoticed as they don't often cause symptoms so it is important to routinely get STI tests.
Student Health and Wellness, in partnership with the sexual health team at Thunder Bay District Health Unit, is hosting drop-in, confidential STI testing in the SHW activity room from 11-2pm. Urine, blood, rectal and throat tests will be available.
Drop by for a test, get a free slice of pizza, and pick up sexual health supplies for future consensual activities.
Lions, Dolphins, Bears, Oh My!
According to the Sleep Foundation our chronotype is the natural inclination of your body to sleep at a certain time, or what most people understand as being an early bird versus a night owl. In addition to regulating sleep and wake times, chronotype influences appetite, exercise, and core body temperature.
