With May being Mental Health Awareness month, now seems like a fitting time to talk about mental and emotional health and wellbeing in the workplace!

Mental health and wellbeing haven’t traditionally been something we’ve talked about much in the workplace…even among friends. Moreover, a majority of Americans were taught growing up that mental health is a personal topic. For many families, mental health wasn’t even discussed in the privacy of the home. In fact, in some families, the topic was completely discouraged and avoided. If you talked about it, you may have been scolded or even shunned. This stigma left a lot of people feeling ashamed and suffering in silence.