{"id":16717,"date":"2020-09-10T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2020-09-10T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:16:11","slug":"business-profile-mindful-care-consulting-focused-on-keeping-employees-mentally-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16717","title":{"rendered":"BUSINESS PROFILE: Mindful Care Consulting focused on keeping employees mentally healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Pascal Atkin has just the service that businesses unsure with how to deal with mental health could utilize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindful Care Consulting & Education was started in July 2019 while Atkin and her three children lived in the Truro area. After the family moved to Fall River in December she\u2019s reaching out to employers in the area to see how she can help them and their employees out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI try to be proactive and encourage businesses to work with me before there is an issue,\u201d said Atkin outside a Fall River coffee shop on a beautiful September morning. \u201cMindful Care is a resource for businesses that are struggling with mental health and helping them navigate how to handle things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She offers a workshop called Stress Resilience that teaches people how to understand the true nature of their stress and how to stop letting it run their lives. The course is offered monthly online and is also available in -person or online to businesses who want to educate and support their employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atkin said she doesn\u2019t believe she\u2019s ever had a job where everybody she\u2019s worked with wasn\u2019t stressed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI worked my first job in a convenience store; I\u2019ve worked in bartending; customer service in various places; then I went to university; followed by working in group homes for people with mental challenges,\u201d she said. \u2018It seems my coworkers everywhere are stressed out, and people\u2019s most common response to \u2018how was work today\u2019 is to say it was stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would really like to flip the switch on that. I don\u2019t think work always needs to be stressful. I think we let it be stressful by the way we react to our stress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said people react to stress in a way that it perpetuates it and it doesn\u2019t help anyone out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStress can get the best of us,\u201d said Atkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atkin said what she sees now is businesses dealing with mental health problems after their staff are already struggling and need counselling or stress leave, reacting to issues instead of being proactive, or donating to mental health funds without truly supporting mental health in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not actually making the employees feel comfortable in talking to their employers in regard to mental health,\u201d said Atkin. \u201cI don\u2019t want that to be a problem. I want that to be an open conversation, Mindful Care will give you the education and tools to support this and your employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said it\u2019s hard for people to talk to the ones they work for, so that is why Atkin\u2019s focus is on the employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really feel the employers want to be open about mental health. They want their employees to be comfortable talking to them,\u201d she said, continuing \u201cbut it\u2019s kind of like we don\u2019t talk about it until it\u2019s a problem so employees are hesitant to reach out for help and go to the boss and say they\u2019re stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think if we just trained our employees Stress Resilience from the get-go, they know it\u2019s an open conversation and they have some tools in their pockets to deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out more information on Atkin\u2019s business, checkout her website at https:\/\/www.mindfulcareconsulting.com\/<\/a>. She is eager to support Fall River and area employees and employers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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