What is mental fitness?
Just like exercise strengthens your body, mental fitness supports your mind and emotional wellbeing. It’s built through small, everyday actions – like practicing mindfulness, moving your body or spending time with people who lift you up.
These habits can help you handle life’s ups and downs, adapt to change and grow your resilience over time. Everyone has good days and bad days – think of mental fitness as your best shield against the bad ones.
Take the first step.
Your physical health and mental health are closely connected. Moving your body, eating well and getting enough sleep can help boost your mood, energy and cognitive ability. You don’t need big workouts or strict routines — just small actions you can build into your day.
Explore ways to support your body and, in turn, your mental fitness.
Improve your mood with your food
Explore the links between healthy food choices and a good mood.
The power of a good night's sleep
Discover why sleep is so important for your health, as well as tips for getting a good night's rest.
Can exercise improve your mental health?
Getting active can help boost your mood, calm you down, and potentially even prevent depression.
Tools to help you take the first step to a healthier body
Live Better Rewards
Drinking enough water? Getting enough steps in? It all counts with Live Better rewards.
Medibank Baby Sleep Support Line
Personalised telehealth sleep and settling support for eligible∓ Medibank members with bubs who need a bit of extra support getting to sleep.
A growing mind isn’t about being the smartest in the room, it’s about learning helpful skills that support how you think and cope. This can include mindfulness, goal setting and practicing optimism and gratitude.
Discover strategies you can try at your own pace to help your mind feel more positive and capable than yesterday.
10 ways to be more mindful
From gym time to bed time, here's how to practice mindfulness and find composure at any moment of the day.
How to create a gratitude ritual
Practicing gratitude can have amazing benefits, especially if you make a habit of it. Here's how to get started.
How to set goals that matter
It’s easy to get caught up in what you feel you “should” be achieving. Learn how to set goals that matter to you.
Tools to help grow your mind, one day at a time
24/7 Medibank Mental Health Support
Medibank health insurance members can chat to a mental health professional over the phone or online about how they feel and get guidance on what they can do next, at no extra cost.~
Hit pause with the Calm app
Take a breath with the Calm app via the Live Better Rewards store.
Feeling connected to others is a key part of mental fitness. Supportive relationships with family, friends or your community can help you feel understood, grounded and less alone.
Check out the resources below to help you nurture the connections that matter to you.
Looking after your social wellbeing
Learn more about social wellbeing, with tips and tools to support yours.
The power of opening up
It can be lonely to feel like you’re not understood. Talking more honestly about how you’re feeling might help.
How to make friends as an adult
Feeling lonely as an adult? Learn how to make new friends and maintain strong relationships.
Finding connection when family isn't an option
Hear from Medibank psychologist Alison Sutton about the power of connecting with our community.
The benefits of volunetering
Ready to roll up your sleeves and volunteer? Here's why it can be good for you too.
Tools to help you make meaningful connections, big and small
Come along to parkun
Everyone is welcome at parkrun, the free, weekly 5km event where it doesn't matter if you run, walk or cheer from the sidelines.
Get together and have a tasty conversation
The Medibank Family Roast card game is designed to help spark meaningful conversations between family members.
Medibank's We are lonely podcast
The We Are Lonely podcast shares stories of loneliness and resilience to help others find comfort and hope.
Live Better - enjoy your incredible potential
Live Better was created to support everyone in Australia to enjoy the things they do every day, with tools to help you eat, move, and feel healthier.
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Things you should know
∓ The Medibank sleep support line is available to eligible members with Bronze hospital cover and above. Excludes Overseas Visitor Health Cover, Working Visa Health Cover and Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC). Waiting periods may apply. Some referred services may involve out of pocket costs.
~ 20% discount with applies to new, full price 12 & 18 month Platinum, Home, Passport or Titanium memberships for Fitness First; 12 or 18 month Blue or Platinum memberships for Goodlife, purchased by eligible Medibank members with hospital or extras cover. 20% discount at Zap Fitness applies to any 12 or 18 month membership. Not available in conjunction with any other offers or discounts. Excludes Platinum Plus, black label and diamond memberships for Fitness First, Platinum Plus memberships for Goodlife and 3 month term or month to month memberships at any brand in order to earn Live Better points for attending the gym.
~ Some referred services may involve out of pocket costs and waiting periods may apply.