Humans are naturally social creatures—a decrease in face-to-face interaction that was once provided by the workplace, leaves many employees feeling even more disconnected and isolated from their colleagues, and community, at large. This can have a significant impact on both mental and physical wellbeing, as well as overall job performance.

Discover practical tips for managing the remote work blues and combating loneliness while working from home. Learn how social connection and belonging impact our well-being, especially in marginalized communities. Explore strategies for scheduling virtual coffee breaks, joining employee resource groups, organizing group experiences, and practicing mindfulness. Prioritize social connections to foster a healthier, more resilient, and connected work environment.

Discover the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing, including stress reduction, relaxation, and increased oxygenation. Learn how this breathing technique may aid in managing metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity. Explore the research linking diaphragmatic breathing to reduced blood pressure, improved insulin sensitivity, and reduced abdominal fat. Follow the step-by-step instructions to incorporate diaphragmatic breathing into your daily wellness routine and experience its potential impacts on your physical and mental well-being.

Understanding our intuition and anxiety, is a valuable tool that can help us succeed in our personal and professional lives.

Your work-from-home setup is crucial for maintaining overall well-being and productivity. Things like an ergonomic chair or monitor stand work wonders for developing good posture, and reducing the risk of musculoskeletal disorders and other health issues.

The nervous system is the body's communication network, responsible for transmitting messages between the brain and the rest of the body. When the nervous system is out of balance, it can have a ripple effect on the rest of the body, leading to physical and emotional symptoms.

The practice of self-love directly correlates with increased workplace performance. These mindfulness practices will begin to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Workplace trauma, in and of itself, has become a widely experienced phenomenon, which research shows also has a profound impact on the emotional state of employees.

Compassionate leadership is about leading with empathy and understanding and being mindful of the needs and well-being of others. It involves being attuned to the emotions and experiences of your employees and being willing to listen, support, and guide them through challenges and difficult situations.

Resilience can be defined as the mental reservoir of strength that helps us handle stress and change. Resilience, as defined by the American Psychological Association, means finding healthy ways to cope with stress and manage change rather than being immune to stress or never feeling negative emotions. Resilience is a skill anyone can build over time with the help of resources like social support and mindfulness, not a personality trait only certain individuals possess.

Quitting my job last year was one of the hardest decisions that I had ever made…And yet it was also the easiest. I was in a senior level position at a nonprofit consulting firm, earning a good salary and had a great title and position on paper. All the while, I was drowning in a sea of work and it felt increasingly more difficult to be able to show up as my best self both at work and in my personal life. 

Research shows that mindfulness, yoga, and living an overall healthy lifestyle can do wonders to mitigate stress and anxiety, and yet, the further away you are from being wealthy and white, the harder these services are to access and consistently practice. 

Intersectional wellness views wellness not as a luxury - but as a human right, because when we're well, so are our communities. It is a framework for living, being, and dreaming outside of the dehumanizing system of grind culture - a web of systemic oppression that negatively impacts the spiritual, mental, and physical wellness of people of color, female-identified, queer, and disabled folks.

Have you ever heard someone say “just get over it” in response to someone expressing sadness or depression? Or maybe you told a family member that you were attending therapy and they scoffed at you. Unfortunately, for many of us, there are friends and family who will minimize what we are going through. Often, this is unintentional and due to a lack of understanding mental health, but that doesn’t make it okay.

We all know that breathing is essential for our physical well-being. But, few of us realize just how important breathing can be for our mental wellness. How well we breathe can affect our mood, physical and emotional responses, anxiety levels, and responses to stress.

Collective traumas throughout history should have served as lessons, and should have made society better. Unfortunately, many of them continue to plague our communities in profound ways. Now, it is up to us to find ways to promote healing. One of the most promising avenues is collective healing.

Could the act of breathing really be the answer for stress? It is a reasonable possibility. Most of us don’t really think about how we breathe – the act of inhaling and exhaling. However, how you breathe can impact your entire body, your mind, and your mental health.

While we can’t always control the stressors in our lives, we can learn to control our responses to stress – both physically and mentally. Meditation for stress is one of the more promising ways to release the things that stress us and find positive things we need more of in our lives, such as grace and gratitude.