May Update: Focus on Your Emotional Well-being
You’re busy giving to others. Are you also taking time to give to yourself? In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to make it easier for you to focus on YOU. Take some time this month to discover the customized resources and programs available to you and your family members through the BILH Living Well program.
Download the BILH Living Well flyer
Log in to your Wellness Account
You’ll need an active Wellness Account to earn rewards.
Already signed up?
New participants: See the Setting up your Wellness Account section for instructions.
Featured this month
Peak Mind: Impact and Practice
May 15 | 10-11 a.m.
Best-selling author and neuroscientist, Dr. Amishi Jha, is back to help you learn how to decrease distractions and train your brain to pay better attention. Dr. Jha offers insights on increasing performance in high stress, high stakes environments — and in everyday life. Learn how paying attention can make us feel more confident, joyful, and energized. Spoiler alert: It all takes practice, and practice can be hard to maintain. Dr. Jha will be joined by a panel of mindfulness experts to share practical advice for starting, rebooting, and maintaining your personal pursuit of a peak mind.
Pre-registration is not required. Please use the link below at the time of the webinar along with the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 256 176 739 755
Passcode: py5ZhA
Create Your Eat Well Plan – Tips to Reduce Inflammation and Feel GREAT This Spring!
Sue Levy, founder of Savory Living, shares fun and easy tips to eat to ‘shed winter’ and take control of your health and how you feel this spring. You’ll learn easy ways to activate healthy eating so you can reach your ideal weight, reduce inflammation, prevent and manage disease, gain energy, and improve your moods and sleep. You’ll create your personal eat well plan and learn about the no cost Healthy Eating and Cooking Lifestyle Change Program offered to all BILH employees and their spouses.
Track 7,500 Steps Daily
April 1 – June 30 | 100 points per week
Go out and enjoy the spring weather or get more steps in while indoors. Tip: Sync your personal tracking device to your Wellness Account to track this activity easier.
Got Cravings? Journal Your Stress
April 1 – June 30 | 100 points per week
When you find yourself reacting to stress with food, simply write it down. Journaling is a great way to notice habits and better understand your triggers for emotional eating.
Feeling Overwhelmed? Find Ease
May 1 – 31 | 50 points
Sometimes, life can feel like quicksand: The harder you fight, the deeper you sink. In this lesson, you’ll learn mindful strategies for overcoming feelings of stress and anxiety.
Top 10 Stress Management Techniques
Wednesday, May 8 | 3 – 3:30 p.m. |50 points
This session outlines the top 10 ways that help people feel less stressed including physical, psychological, and social reduction techniques.
Transform Your Relationship with Eating
Recorded series
Master mindfulness instructor Kell Julliard breaks down the lessons of The Hunger Habit, written by New York Times best-selling author Jud Brewer, M.D. Learn practical steps to identify the eating habits that are no longer helpful, and trade them in for habits that support well-being in all areas of your life.
In the Knick of Time
Recorded | 50 points
Time, or lack thereof, tends to be one of the greatest stressors in life, and it’s common to not understand how long certain activities take. Learn strategies for using time more effectively and alleviating associated stress.
Support for a healthy mind
Enhanced Behavioral Health Resources
Harvard Pilgrim offers a wide range of behavioral health resources to support your mental and emotional health, including self-management tools and apps, phone-based coaching, help finding a therapist, and 24/7 phone support.
Meet the Moment: A Complete Mindfulness Curriculum
Join master mindfulness instructor Kell Julliard and his special guests for this pre-recorded series of instructional videos, produced exclusively for BILH and oriented toward the particular needs and concerns of health care workers.
Mindfulness Resources from Harvard Pilgrim
Explore a variety of meditation resources to boost your awareness, focus, and clarity, including live weekly guided sessions, mindfulness training, help with chronic pain, and more.
More resources to help you stay well
Ompractice: Membership for Virtual Yoga and Wellness Classes
FREE, unlimited annual membership for BILH employees and spouses
Choose from over 100 live virtual classes each week held via two-way video. Get the benefits of yoga, meditation, tai-chi, Pilates, and other wellness practices from the comfort of your own home.
Savory Living
FREE access for BILH employees and their spouses
Learn how to eat to reduce inflammation for better health with Savory Living’s self-paced, online healthy eating lifestyle program. In 12 sessions, you’ll receive step-by-step guidance to get your eating working right for YOU!
New for 2024: Up to $150 in Wellness Reimbursement
In addition to traditional gym memberships and virtual subscriptions, you can now be reimbursed for a wide range of wellness activities.
Ovia HealthTM
Whether you’re thinking about starting a family, looking for expert advice on being a working parent or simply want to track your cycle, Ovia Health is here to help! Three mobile apps allow you to access personalized, data-driven solutions for reproductive health, family-building, pregnancy and parenting.
Fitness Reimbursement
Effective through December 31, 2023
You can be reimbursed up to $150 for fees you paid toward a fitness facility, virtual fitness class subscription or other qualified membership. To be eligible, you must have been enrolled in a BILH medical plan for at least for months out of the year in 2023. If you meet the criteria, you have until March 31, 2024 to submit your request for 2023.
Living WellSM at Home
Open to all family members at no cost. Shake it up, stretch it out or get centered with yoga, Zumba, mindfulness and more. All classes are easily accessible via Zoom.
Discounts & Savings
If you’re enrolled in a BILH medical plan, you and your covered dependents have access to exclusive discounts on health and well-being products and services — hearing and vision, healthy eating, smoking cessation, family and senior care, and more.
Setting up your Wellness Account
Your Wellness Account will be available starting January 8, 2024. If you are new to the BILH Living Well program this year, please check back at that time to set up your account and learn more.
1. Create your Wellness Account
Are you a Harvard Pilgrim member enrolled in a BILH medical plan?
Yes
- If have an existing Harvard Pilgrim online account, use your existing username and password to log in to your Wellness Account. (Don’t remember your credentials? Click “Forgot member username” or “Forgot member password.”)
- If you don’t have a Harvard Pilgrim online account set up, click “Create Member Account.”
No
- Click “Create Guest Account” and use program code: C00561.
- Activation of your guest account may take up to 24 hours.
2. Download the Limeade app
Limeade is Harvard Pilgrim’s digital engagement platform, which lets you access your Wellness Account on your smartphone. After you create your Wellness Account:
- Download the Limeade app on the Apple App or Google Play stores.
- Open the Limeade app and enter the mobile program code HPHC.
- Log in with the username and password you set up for your member or guest account.
Questions?
- Call (877) 594-7183, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Email* LivingWellSupport@point32health.org
* Please be aware that communications sent using unencrypted email are not secure. Harvard Pilgrim cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security of any information you send to us over the internet when using email.