How to cultivate wellness in the new year

The new year provides a chance for self-reflection and a time to make a plan for prioritizing elements of your life that may have previously been ignored. In a society so focused on professional growth, it can be common to place our emotional, spiritual, and physical health on the back-burner. Instead of creating unattainable resolutions, learn tips and tricks that can help you “get back up” whenever you’re in need.

Take care of your mental health

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Professor Dori Hutchinson explores a psychological context that can help empower our collective understanding and personal actions to build our wellness and resiliency. In this video, Hutchinson covers emotional, cognitive, physical, social, spiritual, and parenting tips and strategies for staying well and resilient.

Recharge & refuel

The way we work and live has changed drastically bringing many of us to the brink of exhaustion and burnout. Carly Goldsmith (CAS’97), Owner, Carly Goldsmith Coaching, helps us learn how to build resilience to move away from fear and burnout towards empowerment and greater success in our career and life.

Manage stress & grief

Designed for parents and educators and presented by Scott Solberg, Ph.D., Boston University, Professor, this webinar describes a way of understanding our varied reactions to the disruptions to home, school, and work and the many insecurities brought about by this pandemic. We can more effectively cope and navigate through the many new challenges brought on by COVID-19 by engaging in a range of key resiliency efforts.

Practice acupressure

In this interactive webinar, Dr. Beth Sommers (SPH’89, SPH’10), Senior Acupuncturist and Researcher at Boston Medical Center, provides an education on the science of acupressure and demonstrates three acupressure points you can apply to your own body to help alleviate pain and reduce stress.

Alleviate back pain

Low back pain is one of the most common reasons people go to see a doctor and is the single most common condition seen in outpatient Physical Therapy. This webinar, presented by two physical therapists from the BU Physical Therapy Center at Sargent College, covers how to separate low back pain fact from fiction, helps us develop a basic understanding of the science of pain, and exposes us to high-quality treatments for low back pain including lifestyle add-ins that can be utilized immediately.