What is MyHome wellbeing?

MyHome is about shelter, where you live, and feeling at home in a community. It's important to feel safe, secure, and like part of a community for your overall wellbeing.

What is MyMoney wellbeing?

MyMoney covers how you manage money and finances in the short, medium and long-term, including planning ahead for the future.

What is MyNetwork wellbeing?

MyNetwork is about how you are supported and the quality of your relationships, including personal relationships, work colleagues, and every other area of your life.

What is MyLifestyle wellbeing?

MyLifestyle covers how you manage and prefer to live your life, including routine, sleep, physical activity, eating and drinking, substance use, recreational activities and self-care.

What is MyEmotions wellbeing?

MyEmotions is about how you manage your emotions — maintaining a positive outlook and understanding the relationship between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

What is MySelf wellbeing?

MySelf is about your own values, beliefs, purpose and what you find meaningful in life. When you are aware of your personal strengths and talents, you can enjoy a more fulfilling life.

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Wellbeing

Wellbeing is generally how comfortable, healthy or happy we are within in our own lives. Wellbeing is unique to each person and can mean different things to different people.

What is wellbeing?

Wellbeing is generally how comfortable, healthy or happy we are within in our own lives. Wellbeing is unique to each person and can mean different things to different people. At Ben, we help people learn about, develop and manage each area of their own wellbeing.

Wellbeing is really important because it can give us the tools to cope with changes to our mental and physical health but if our wellbeing is good, it can also help protect our mental and physical health.

We concentrate on six main areas of wellbeing:

MyHome
This is about shelter, where we live, at home in a community. It’s important for us to feel safe and secure, as well as feeling like part of a community.
MyMoney
This is how we manage money and finances in the short, medium and long-term. Managing money includes planning ahead for the future.
MyNetwork
This is about how we are supported and the quality of our relationships. This includes our personal relationships, those with work colleagues and every other area of our lives - find out more about building connections.
MyLifestyle
This is how we manage and prefer to live our life and includes routine, sleep, physical activity, eating and drinking, substance use, recreational activities, self-care etc.
MyEmotions
This is about how we manage our emotions. It’s how we maintain a positive outlook and understand the relationship between our thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
MySelf
This is about our own values, beliefs, purpose and what we find meaningful in life. When we are aware of our own personal strengths and talents, we can enjoy a more fulfilling life.

If you'd like some help with your wellbeing, check out our top tips to boost your wellbeing or take a personal MOT test. Don't forget you can chat with us online or call us free on 08081 311 333 - we're here to help.