Healthy Residents, Healthy Community
From Stigma Free Fishers, which brings awareness to mental health issues through new community-focused actions, to over 132 miles of paved and nature trails and 24 parks where you can enjoy #ecotherapy, the health and wellness of our residents is at the forefront of everything we do.
Featured Health & Wellness Stories
Mental Health Monday: 5 Ways to Help Kids Cope with Stress
April is Stress Awareness Month. Stress is defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional, or psychological strain. As adults, we all experience stress at one time or another. Whether we’re busy trying to manage the challenges of regular day to day life...
Running for My Mental Health
If you would have told me years ago that I would run for fun, and for a reason other than fitness, I would have laughed. I didn’t think I could ever be a “runner”—runners enjoy every minute of the run (false), they’re fast (false), and they always prefer to run...
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Mental Health Monday: Fighting Winter Isolation as a New Mom
Siiiggghhh. Mommin’ is hard. Being pregnant is hard. Birth is hard. Postpartum is hard. It’s all hard. But doing all of the above during a Global Pandemic? That is HARD HARD. The Fourth Trimester, as it’s often referred to, is the 12-week period following the birth of...
Mental Health Monday: COVID Fatigue
I almost feel the first line of NSYNC’s Pop song is talking about Covid-19. It has been a year since the country went on lockdown, yet COVID-19 remains the hot news. For one year we had to deal with the threat of illness, fear for job security, news of deaths, all...
Mental Health Monday: Fishers Cares Offers A First Step Toward Help
Nolan (not his real name) was feeling isolated and alone. Not unusual for a student transitioning to college life. But in the midst of a pandemic, those feelings were intensified and created a sense of anxiety. He wasn’t sleeping well and depression was setting in....
5 Tips & Tricks for Working at Home
Now that so many of us have been at it working from home for so long now, we probably think we have it all down. But I’m here to tell you that I’ve been doing the work from home thing since March, and I feel like a mess most days. I’m very fortunate to be able to do...
Winter Running Trails & Tips
While we look forward to when we can safely return to our weekly group run/walks #AroundFishers, we asked our members to share some of their best winter running tips and favorite routes to get you moving, even in the colder weather.Winter Running Tips “If you feel a...
Mental Health Monday: Self Care Tips for Parents
This week is the official start to the New Year. It’s the start of the new semester for kids, Christmas decorations are put away, new calendars are opened, and new schedules are starting. I love this time of year; it's the time for looking forward to all that will...
Mental Health Monday: Beat the Winter Blues
Winter blues. No, I am not talking about the genre made famous by artist like B.B. King, Muddy Waters, or Robert Johnson, whose music makes you want to get up and dance. When the clouds start to coat the skies, the sun decides to hide, and the temperature drops, your...
Mental Health Tips for Winter
It’s that time of the year again: our neighborhoods are decked out in lights, those songs that cause waves of sweet nostalgia are on the radio, every home is full of the smell of freshly baked cookies, and thousands of people in our community feel pressured to hide...
Top 5 Benefits of Participating in Self, Family, and Community Gratitude Activities
During this season, Hamilton East Public Library is celebrating the Season of Gratitude, an initiative focused on gratitude activities for all ages from November 15 through January 15. Gratitude is defined as a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation. A selection...
Stress Awareness Day: Tips for Managing Stress
You know that feeling that creeps up, sometimes unexpectedly, and then leaves you in a tailspin? It is stress, and we experience different levels of it throughout the day, week or month. But not all stress is bad. You read that correctly. In fact, it is usually...