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Manage Your Holistic & Mental Wellbeing Pursue personal growth through a holistic balance of mental, physical, and financial wellness.

Graduate school can be both exciting and challenging, with unique pressures and demands. Juggling coursework, research, and teaching, and balancing academic life with personal responsibilities can be difficult. So it’s important to prioritize your well-being. Below are some resources available to graduate students to help: support mental health, pursue physical wellness, build a sense of community, and develop resilience.

Other Campus Wellness Resources

Graduate school can be both exciting and challenging, with unique pressures and demands. Juggling coursework, research, and teaching, and balancing academic life with personal responsibilities can be difficult. So, it’s important to prioritize your well-being. Below are some resources available to graduate students to help: support mental health, pursue physical wellness, build a sense of community, and develop resilience.

Recreation

You can visit the Arboretum for a walk, the rock wall in the JC, or any of our on campus gyms for free as a student! There are many free recreation options on campus or near, for students to use. 

Locations & Hours

UK College of Nursing Wellness Resources for Students

Free Personal & Online Therapy by Talkspace

Financial Wellness | Student Success

Wildcat Service Dogs

Did you know that you can be a babysitter to the on-campus service dogs in training? After time as a babysitter, you can also be approved to become a trainer for service dogs as well. You can learn more on their BBNvolved page below! 

https://uky.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/wildcatservicedogs

Headspace | Find a happier, healthier you

Through a new partnership with Headspace, students, faculty and staff will have access, at no cost, to the entire Headspace library.

Meditation and mindfulness have been shown to help people stress less, focus more, and sleep soundly, and Headspace is your personal guide. With hundreds of guided exercises for meditation, sleep, focus, and movement, Headspace will help you start and end your days feeling like your best self.

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