How the Calm Health app supports Alexis’ well-being
When Alexis wakes up each morning, she reaches for her phone. Not to check email. Not to scroll through social media. Not to catch up on the day’s headlines.
Instead, she opens the Calm Health app, a mental wellness resource available through her UnitedHealthcare benefits. Calm Health offers mental health screenings, coaching, therapy referrals, personalized programs and daily self-care content. For Alexis, it’s the first step in a non-negotiable daily routine that has helped her manage depression and anxiety, build emotional resilience and show up more fully for the people who count on her.
Alexis regularly turns to the UnitedHealthcare app to explore the benefits and tools available to support her and her family. That's how she discovered the Calm Health app. “The Calm Health app is the most comprehensive that I have discovered to support my mental health and emotional well-being,” she says.
When she was a young girl, Alexis learned her name means “helper to mankind,” and she’s held that mission in the back of her mind ever since. Today, as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor, wife, mother, community volunteer and host of The Well Women Flourish podcast, Alexis spends much of her time encouraging other people to become healthier and stronger. Whether she’s coaching a client through a workout, leading a fitness ministry at her church or helping someone discover a resource that could make a difference, Alexis has dedicated her life to helping others become the best version of themselves.
“My role is to help my clients identify fears, eliminate negative self-talk and build momentum,” Alexis says.
To be at her best, Alexis has committed to her own well-being and starts each morning with Calm Health. Instead of jumping out of bed and running into the day, she takes a moment to pause with herself. She listens to guided content, completes the Daily Move and spends a few minutes meditating. “When I wake up now, I feel hopeful and at ease, which isn’t something I could have said in the past,” she says. “I feel empowered.”
For someone who’s spent more than 20 years managing depression and anxiety, that feeling is significant.
And the support doesn’t end with her morning routine. Throughout the day, Alexis can turn to Calm Health anytime she starts to feel tense. Having a resource at her fingertips that can offer her a variety of ways to rebalance means she doesn’t have to figure out what to do in the moment.
“These are tools I can reach for throughout the day when something stressful comes up,” she says.
And as the day draws to a close, Alexis can turn to Calm Health’s self-care content to help her relax and reset in a healthy way, so she can feel refreshed and ready to go when the next day begins.
Using Calm Health complements the other work Alexis does to take care of herself, and it’s become an important part of her daily routine. “I feel that UnitedHealthcare is supportive of my total wellness,” Alexis says.
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