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Holistic Care Toolkit

Personal Wellness

What is Resilience?
Resilience

"Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences."-- http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx 

Increasing Resilience

Qualities of Resilience
10 Ways to Build Resilience

Mindfulness: Breath & Body Scan
Letting Go of Grudges
8 Keys to Forgiveness
The Stanford Resilience Project

Multimedia

The surprising science of happiness--Dan Gilbert, TED

To Endure TED Radio Hour

Classes
Books
Increase Your Exposure to Humor 

Read the daily comics before leaving for work
Read a page/chapter of jokes at night before going to sleep
Funny page-a-day calendars
Internet joke websites, daily email feeds
Save a clip or electronic file of cartoons
Comedy Clubs
American Film Institute – list of 100 funniest movies
Funny dentist skit - YouTube

Monty Python Dead Parrot - YouTube

Painfully Funny - TED Radio Hour

Funny Cat Videos

Test Yourself

Depression screen
Alcohol use  

Education about Depression

Depression Symptoms and Warning Signs
Helping a Depressed Person  

Education about Suicidality

Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal  

Work-Life Assessments

Assess Your Sleepiness
Work-Life Balance Quiz
Work-Life Assessment and Planning Tools 

Finding Balance
Inova WellAware & EAP Resources for Balance
Work-Life Balance: Tips to Gain Control
When and How to Say No
5 Research-Based Ways to Say "No"
Effectively Managing Technology so that it Doesn't Control You
 
Personal Productivity

Academic Biomedical Career Customization
Understanding Procrastination
Writing Productivity Problems
Time Management  

Spirituality

Spirituality and Health
 

Family

Better Parenting
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Spoiled
Nine Psychological Tasks for a Good Marriage
Making Step-Families Work
Physician Mothers and Breast Feeding
Effects of Stress on Family
Talking to Kids about Stress  

 
Multimedia

Jon Kabat-Zinn: What is Mindfulness?

The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: Kristin Neff at TEDxCentennialParkWomen

"In every walk with nature
one receives far more that he seeks."

--John Muir

 

Forest Bathing: A Retreat to Nature Can Boost Immunity and Mood

'Forest Bathing': How Microdosing on Nature Can Help with Stress