UEA Wellbeing Podcast UEA Student Services

This episode focuses on managing emotions. This month Rach is joined by Yin, a Wellbeing Adviser in Student Services and Elsa, a Postgraduate student here at UEA. We explore what emotions are, and some guidance around healthier ways to manage challenging emotions.



Content warning: Brief mentions of physical harm.


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This episode focuses on financial wellbeing. Join Rach as she chats with Naomi the Senior Student Life Advisor for Finance in Student Services at UEA about the impact that finances can have on students wellbeing particularly at the moment with the cost of living crisis. Naomi shares some guidance as well as different options for students to access further financial and wellbeing support.



Links for further support as discussed in the episode:


-Student Life Finance general web page: Finance (uea.ac.uk)-Student Services Fund and Loan information: UEA Student Services - Hardship Fund

-Budgeting web page (including workshop sign up form): Budgeting and Debt Issues (uea.ac.uk)

-Save The Student: Save the Student - Student Money, Discounts and Jobs-Money Saving Expert: Money Saving Expert: Energy Help, Credit Cards, Flight Delays, Shopping and more

-YGAM (Gambling and Gaming support): Homepage- YGAM



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This episode explores how to form healthy habits – this is something that is particularly relevant at the start of the year when so many of us set new years resolutions. We discuss a few tips to help guide you to form new healthy habits as we go into the new year but of course is applicable at any time.


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In his episode we're talking about 'the five ways to wellbeing', five simple things we can all do to benefit our physical and mental health.



Rich is joined by Megan, one of our Student Services Advisors, to think about how we can use the five ways to wellbeing as a proactive way of improving our wellbeing, as well as a reflective tool for checking in with ourselves.



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This is a bonus episode for this month for Disability History Month. In this episode we chat with Annabel who is a Wellbeing Adviser for Disability within Student Services about looking after your wellbeing with a physical disability. Highlighting the impact that living with a disability can have on someone's wellbeing, and exploring some practical and personal actions that can help. As well as hearing from our Student Wellbeing Trainer Anya, about how they make wellbeing work for them.



Find out more about support for students with disabilities: https://my.uea.ac.uk/divisions/student-services/wellbeing/help-for-students-with-disabilities


Access Support from Student Services: ⁠bit.ly/UEA-STS⁠.



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This episode explores how to support a friend with their mental health. Considering the steps we can take to support someone, and the importance of boundaries and looking after ourselves. Rach and Rich reflect on some key questions with Emily and Tiya, two students at UEA and members of the Headucate society, hearing their perspective on how to best support a peer who may have poor or declining mental health.  



Check out the How to Support a Friend section on the Blackboard Student Services Hub: https://bit.ly/HTSAF-UEABB

Check out our How to Support a Friend workshop on YT: https://youtu.be/LvKu7UbjDLs


Find about more about wellbeing support at UEA: bit.ly/WelcomeWB-UEA



Access Support from Student Services: bit.ly/UEA-STS.



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