Find Calm in the Moment
Resources When You Need Them
Help for Difficult times
The Intentional Caring Committee offers these resources for those moments when you need a few moments of respite.
Recognizing the unique challenges of the healthcare field, Sentara Martha Jefferson’s Intentional Caring Committee has put together a playlist of meditations to help our team find a few moments of calm, solace, and balance during difficult times.
Check out this Meditation playlist
Or if the weather is bad, you can take a self-guided walking tour through our art collection.
Or tour our neighbor's aboriginal art collection: Kluge-Ruhe
We've all been there.
Anger. Anxiety. Compassion fatigue. Fear. Stress. Hard emotions are a natural response to the challenges of caregiving, and sometimes they are difficult to manage. Optima EAP counselors offer free, confidential support 24/7. Please reach out whenever you need them. We have two EAP support options available:
EAP Call to Care Coaching: Life coaching provides innovative ways to access convenient support, tools, and resources to build resiliency. Simply scan the QR code on this flyer to sign up.
EAP Live Counseling & Support: Optima EAP (Employee Assistance Program) provides confidential, short-term, and solution-focused services. You can confidentially turn to Optima EAP even before an issue or concern severely impacts your home life or work performance. Through Optima EAP, you and your dependent family members have access to unlimited virtual and in-person visits per incident per year at no cost. Call Optima EAP at 1-800-899-8174.
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Stress First Aid : a framework for peer support and self-care to support health care professionals in dealing with the inevitable stresses of the job.
Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis (hbr.org) : excellent, succinct summary of how to train in mental resilience
WaveNet | We improve health every day. (sentara.com): a compendium of resilience resources
OPTIMA EAP Resilience Summary : useful explanations of resilience in the face of stress and how to cultivate it
Consult the map linked below for locations and information about which areas are staff-only.
For More Information:
Contact Esther Lozano Otis with questions at 434.654.7108 or elozan1@sentara.com