Here are five wellness days that Tallent suggests including on your calendar each month, or when you can, for positive mental health. Balancing responsibilities like work and caring for your family, oftentimes means your own health and wellness is put on the back burner. "I feel like oftentimes we schedule our month or our week or our lives, and we forget about sleep." It may seem as if prioritizing work over sleep can help you be more productive, but the opposite is true. A day devoted to yourselfHaving time to yourself is extremely important, Tallent says.

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Persons: Tallent, It's, Casey Tallent Organizations: Harvard, Centers for Disease Control, CNBC