Supporting the whole you throughout all of life’s moments
What does well-being look like to you? For a lot of us, it’s pretty simple: we aim for enough sleep to focus on our jobs and enough cash to pay our bills. Maintaining your well-being might be a daily challenge. There are major wellness highs and lows in every life, and Guardian is here to help you care for “the whole you” every day with benefits that help protect your mind, body, and wallet®.
Welcoming a new baby, for example, is an incredible and exciting time. Picking names, setting up a nursery, and soaking up the newborn snuggles are truly special moments. And while we know pregnancy takes a physical toll, emotions and finances are also profoundly impacted when you add to your family. Managing your overall well-being during this time isn’t always entirely in your control.
Those without the option of taking paid leave may be forced to rely on savings while not working. In fact, only 1 in 4 people (27%) who work in the private sector have access to paid family leave.1 The significant adjustment of parenthood and the pressure of returning a 9-to-5 schedule can have an emotional toll.
Sheila F., 42, has worked in government in Washington, D.C. for her entire career. While there is a great perk of subsidized day care within her office building, at the time of her pregnancy, there was basically nothing to help her postpartum. Two weeks maternity leave was standard, so her emotional wellness suffered from the looming deadline of returning to work. Despite doing her best, she needed more support, and was able to take a short-term disability leave.2
We’re here to help as you recover, heal, and find your footing as a new family. New parents often need help simply getting through the day (and night), and we’re proud of our empathetic service and full spectrum of well-being products and resources, like access to mental health support services and short-term disability insurance to help protect your paycheck while you’re on maternity leave. So, every aspect of your new family’s wellness can be cared for.
Let’s look at the other end of the spectrum. Where do you turn during your toughest challenges to your well-being, like a cancer diagnosis? Guardian helps provide holistic ways to care for yourself and your family because we know there’s more than just the physical challenge of recovery that comes with fighting cancer. It can be financially and emotionally draining as well — essentially, you need the right resources to help manage the well-being of the whole you.
“I woke up from the anesthesia after a colonoscopy,” says Joe, a Guardian customer, “and while I was still in a fog, my doctor said, ‘There’s no easy way to say this. You’ve got cancer.’ That was a difficult time and a difficult diagnosis, but my Guardian claims manager, Kim, wasn’t interested in only checking boxes. She was riding the rollercoaster with me.”
We’re here to help you navigate the process with empathic support and resources, like critical illness insurance that provides a lump sum payment benefit based on the treatments and screenings you receive for covered illnesses.
No matter what life brings your way, Guardian is here to help support you during the day to day, especially during pivotal moments. It’s our job to help make you feel like the whole you is being cared for while you’re focused on your family’s new addition, a difficult health diagnosis, and everything in between.