Category: Self-Care Strategies
Running for the Mind
Everyone knows about the physical benefits of running, such as preventing and managing a range of health problems including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. But, as a healthy woman in my 20s, those benefits were hard for me to grasp. Telling myself, “If you go for this run today, you’ll decrease …
Gratitude and Wellbeing
Gratitude defies easy classification. It can serve as an emotion, a moral virtue and even a coping response. It is the overwhelming feeling of appreciation to someone or something outside of ourselves for something in our lives that we find beneficial. Gratitude has been prized as a virtue by most of the world’s religious traditions …
Fulfilling Trauma’s Hidden Promise
Don’t miss Jim’s TEDMED talk released January 17, 2017 and then tune into his Facebook Live Q&A at 4PM ET.
Meditation for Anxiety
Using meditation for anxiety has become more common in recent years. We have some tips on using mindfulness meditation to reduce anxiety.
Food As Medicine faculty member David Ludwig, MD, PhD, knows why you’re #AlwaysHungry
Center faculty member, David Ludwig provides a 3-phase program that let’s you lose weight without calorie counting – by putting biology back on your side! Read an excerpt from his new book Always Hungry.
Coming Together to Heal
The terrible deaths of school children and those who care for them in Connecticut are bound to touch all of our children and, indeed, all of us.
An Open Door in Gaza
“Mind-body medicine is a friend.” Says Iman, a physical therapist. “And being here is like living with my second family. Our message is love.”
Coming Together at CancerGuides Israel
I was particularly touched as I watched the Israelis and Palestinians, in my group, overcome initial suspicion and the pain that inequities in health care cause…and come to know and appreciate each other as professionals and as people.
Feast with Your Eyes
This is a fall farm market feast, of small purple potatoes, crimini mushrooms, golden zucchini (!), squash blossoms, sweet red pepper and red onion with corn tortillas and arugula.