Develop new resilience tools. 

Explore our recent resilience challenge that provides eight unique research-based practices developed by the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. These practices aim to help us improve our social and emotional well-being - particularly needed during this pandemic. These practices are small, digestible ways to create your own building blocks to resilience and well-being.

Practice Vulnerability by taking the How Are You Really? Challenge, co-sponsored by the Steve Fund, an organization dedicated to supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of students of Color.

Get some help with your daily routine.

Routine is very helpful for mental health. Whether it’s accountability from a friend, your google calendar, or maybe trying Habitica, a free app that Gamefy’s your daily routine, we all need extra support to find and stick to a routine right now.

Stay Connected to Macalester: Virtual Community and Wellness Website.

The Division of Student Affairs Virtual Community and Wellness Site was created during spring’s remote learning to ensure that students could access the services, programs, and the familiarity of the Mac community. You’ll find all sorts of concrete resources here.

Talk to a Counselor

Talk to someone right now:

• Press 2 is available 24/7/365, anywhere in the world, free of charge to all Macalester students. You can call as many times as you want/need. Call 651-696-6275 then Press #2 when prompted to be connected to a mental health counselor.
• Access support for students of color via the Steve Fund 24/7/365: text STEVE to 741741 to connect with a culturally trained Crisis Counselor text line.
• Access LGBTQIA+ support 24/7/365 via the Trevor Project: call or text 1-866-488-7386

Find a provider to meet with Regularly: 

• MiResource a Macalester specific search tool that also has access to providers in some other regions of the US and other countries.
• Psychology Today: a search tool with providers all over the US.

(Re)Assess your Substance Use

We all cope with life stressors in different ways: we binge-watch shows, we go for walks, we eat chocolate, we talk with friends, we cry, we use substances. Some of these coping strategies, while reducing psychological pain in the short term, don’t help us over time. Do you wonder if your substance use (whether it’s alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs) is causing things to happen in your life that you did not intend or want? You can assess your own use with the following three tools.

 

ScreenU Alcohol

ScreenU Marijuana

ScreenU Rx

Explore Our Summer App Recommendation: Nod

Our featured app for this summer is Nod - an app that empowers students to build social connections. As counterintuitive as it might seem, Nod uses strategies backed by science to empower students to build the authentic connections they want and need to be successful in college. The app’s mission: Reduce the impact of loneliness on young people's well-being.