5 Ways Women Can Take Ownership of Their Health and Well-Being

Mia Barnes 01/22/2023

Every woman deserves to feel her best. Although you can feel confident while dressing authentically or surrounding yourself with loved ones, supporting your health is crucial. Use these tips to take ownership of your health and well-being and experience your best year yet. 1. Advocate for Your Needs Consider what you require for your physical and mental health to thrive. You might need to address those things with help from others, like your doctor or loved ones. When you reach that point, you’ll need to learn how to advocate for yourself. Maintaining your health records and preparing questions for doctors are excellent ways to make progress. You’ll know how to vocalize your concerns to address your most pressing needs. Sometimes advocating means talking with your…

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Categories: Institute of Women, Wellness & Work, Longevity, Self-care, Subscriber Content, Wellness & Personal Growth

Tags: health, self-care, wellness

Mia Barnes

woman looking up at sky thinking, showing mental performance

Mental performance and you: 10 things you need to know

Our mental performance, how we think, analyze, and perceive the world, influences how we work, tackle challenges, relate to others, manage stress and more. Where we choose to put our focus has a tremendous impact on how we feel and perform in our day-to-day lives. Julie Jones, Mental Performance Coach and Institute instructor, specializes in helping people boost their mental game, and in teaching them how mental training, positivity and self-awareness can help us do better in our jobs, our personal lives, as leaders, as athletes, and as members of the community. As a former Division I softball coach, Julie specializes in training athletes in mental performance techniques. The same brain strategies that can help a softball player improve her swing can help us all…

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Institute Editorial Team 08/02/2021

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Is Your Pre-Pandemic Job Still Right for You?

Is Your Pre-Pandemic Job Still Right for You? The world is slowly returning back to “normal” 一 or as close to normal as things get while continuing to live with the threat of a global pandemic. And this return to “normal” has left many of us wondering: do I want to go back to exactly the way things were pre-pandemic? Here are some things to consider when weighing the pros and cons of staying at your pre-pandemic job. Many are leaving their pre-pandemic jobs As employers call workers back into the office, many people are choosing not to go back to their old jobs at all. Although a record number of open jobs are available in the U.S., hiring has gone way down. And people…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 10/18/2021

What is Holistic Health

If you’re curious about how holistic health care could improve your quality of life, check out this quick guide.

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Mia Barnes 08/07/2023

How to care for yourself while taking care of others

Caregivers, this is for you. Even before the pandemic, more than 16% of the US population was providing unpaid care to an adult 18 years or older, including family members with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Women make up about 75% of those caregivers, and they put in the work while juggling jobs, children, and ongoing domestic-task overload. With COVID back on the rise, caregivers are under additional pressure to care for and protect their loved ones. If you’re a caregiver, the stress may seem relentless, and you may be: having trouble sleeping under/over-eating self-medicating with alcohol or drugs canceling (or not even booking) your own doctors’ appointments That’s because when you’re a caregiver, caring for yourself tends to happen only after everyone else’s needs have been…

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Institute Editorial Team 09/26/2023