Code Hope - MGH Foundation

For several months now, everyone’s daily life has been strewn with uncertainty. To support you during this trying time, we have created a virtual destination where you can find practical tips and resources to help you stay the course.

We call it Code Hope.

Whether you are on the front line with our patients or at home in confinement, we are here to support you,
as are our teams in the Mental Health Mission.

Tips for our medical teams

You play a key role in our response to this crisis. This can lead to a great deal of pressure, but also, hopefully, to a sense of accomplishment. Try to find some comfort in the fact that your work is important. Take time for yourself when you are not at work. Accept any help that is offered.

Support the medical teams at the Montreal General Hospital by making a donation.

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Working from home?

Setting a proper work environment is key. Ideally, it should be separated from where you sleep and where you eat. It should also provide sufficient lighting and a calm environment. Here’s a musical background to help you focus on the tasks ahead:

A little bit of comfort

Being alone and isolated can be tough on the morale. If you feel isolated, anxious or depressed or if you feel the need to be comforted, please know that there are resources to help you. A comfort line has been set-up by the Quebec Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation to offer peer-support and a kind listening ear. Trained volunteers who have experienced mental health issues in the past are there not to give advice, but to listen and share their own experience. This free service is available 7 days a week, from 11:00 am to 9:00 PM.

1-800-425-9301

Keeping a balance

You too have a role to play in this story. By respecting the rules issued by public health authorities and taking care of your physical and mental health, you are being helpful. Take walks, exercise at home, clean out your closets and, most importantly, stop reading about COVID-19 on screens an hour or more before going to bed. Getting informed is important and beneficial, but getting too much information can be overwhelming.

To get started or to slow down.

Many resources are available to help you stay active even at home.
Since we know that the endless selection of YouTube videos can be anxiety-provoking for some, here are two clips to get you started.
Yoga is a great way to take care of both your mental and physical health, to give yourself a break and a moment to yourself.

30 min Beginner Yoga
Yoga with Kassandra

24 min Morning Yoga
Yoga with Adriene

Special care for people dealing with addictions

Addition is often an illness that results from and in social disconnection. Isolation can definitely be a risk factor for relapse as can stress and anxiety.

We sometimes forget that healthcare workers have the same risk of addiction as the general population, approximately 10%.

Many of them are overwhelmed and feeling emotionally depleted and traumatized, therefore putting their recovery at risk, or even setting a perfect storm for developing addiction issues where there were none before in an attempt to cope via self-medication.

Thankfully, online resources such as SMART recovery, In the Rooms, The Daily Pledge, My Recovery and Sober Recovery are available.

Music, that precious ally

It accompanies us in different moments of your daily lives and yet we don’t always think about using it as a tool. Music holds many powers: it allows us to access our emotions and to release them. It also offers a direct connection to the present moment, alleviating anxiety or depressive symptoms. To read the interview with our music therapist Dany Bouchard on this subject, click here.

It's going to be ok

For several months now, everyone’s daily life has been strewn with uncertainty. To support you during this trying time, we have created a virtual destination where you can find practical tips and resources to help you stay the course.

We call it Code Hope.

Whether you are on the front line with our patients or at home in confinement, we are here to support you,
as are our teams in the Mental Health Mission.

Tips for our medical teams

Support the medical teams at the Montreal General Hospital by making a donation.

Working from home?

A little bit of comfort

1-800-425-9301

Keeping a balance

To get started or to slow down.

30 min Beginner Yoga
Yoga with Kassandra

24 min Morning Yoga
Yoga with Adriene

Special care for people dealing with addictions

Addition is often an illness that results from and in social disconnection. Isolation can definitely be a risk factor for relapse as can stress and anxiety.

We sometimes forget that healthcare workers have the same risk of addiction as the general population, approximately 10%.

Music, that precious ally

Alexandra Stréliski
Le Nouveau Départ (Live Session)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Pierre Tourville
2nd mouvement of Schubert’s « Sonata Arpeggione »

It's going to be ok

For several months now, everyone’s daily life has been strewn with uncertainty. To support you during this trying time, we have created a virtual destination where you can find practical tips and resources to help you stay the course.

We call it Code Hope.

Whether you are on the front line with our patients or at home in confinement, we are here to support you, as are our teams in the Mental Health Mission.

Tips for our medical teams

Support the medical teams at the Montreal General Hospital by making a donation.

Working from home?

A little bit of comfort

1-800-425-9301

Keeping a balance

To get started or to slow down.

30 min Beginner Yoga Yoga with Kassandra

24 min Morning Yoga Yoga with Adriene

Special care for people dealing with addictions

Addition is often an illness that results from and in social disconnection. Isolation can definitely be a risk factor for relapse as can stress and anxiety.

We sometimes forget that healthcare workers have the same risk of addiction as the general population, approximately 10%.

Music, that precious ally

Alexandra Stréliski Le Nouveau Départ (Live Session)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Pierre Tourville 2nd mouvement of Schubert’s « Sonata Arpeggione »

Whether you are on the front line with our patients or at home in confinement, we are here to support you,
as are our teams in the Mental Health Mission.

30 min Beginner Yoga
Yoga with Kassandra

24 min Morning Yoga
Yoga with Adriene

Alexandra Stréliski
Le Nouveau Départ (Live Session)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Pierre Tourville
2nd mouvement of Schubert’s « Sonata Arpeggione »