Holistic Wellness

WellPATH believes in providing resources that will enhance your quality of life in many areas including physical/nutritional wellness, mental/emotional wellness, and financial wellness. These resources are for you to research at your own discretion. The Joint Health Management Board of Fresno Unified School District does not favor or endorse any of the listed resources.

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Eating a healthy, balanced diet accompanied by regular exercise is essential in maintaining physical and mental health and well-being. Together, these can help decrease a person’s risk of developing serious health conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Healthier lifestyles are also associated with improved sleep and mood. Physical activity particularly improves brain-related function and outcomes. Check out some of the healthful resources below to help you get fit, stay fit, and eat well.

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  • 20-Minute Fitness Podcast: This is a great health and fitness podcast if you’re a busy person. Keeping it concise, every episode covers a topic with an industry expert in just 20 minutes. Covering subjects like nutrition, exercise burnout, and fitness trends, this show is always up to date on the latest science. It goes through the newest fads, debunking health myths and letting you know what’s real and what’s not. New episodes come out every Thursday.

 

  • Spot On Podcast: “Spot On!” is a podcast hosted by Dr. Joan Salge Blake, EdD, RDN, LDN, FAND, a respected nutrition author, award-winning media expert, nutrition professor, and dietetic internship director at Boston University. In her “Spot On!” podcast, Blake invites other experts in the health, wellness, and food industry to discuss timely nutrition topics and delivers accurate and practical health and wellness information.

    Previous topics covered have included sugar substitutes, dietary supplements, sports nutrition, eating for clearer skin, the Health At Every Size (HAES) approach, plant-based burgers, and many more. Each episode averages around 20 to 30 minutes. Listeners new to “Spot On!” can choose from over 65 previously aired episodes that discuss a range of topics. Blake and her guests provide evidence-based information, break down food myths, and offer realistic recommendations.   

 

  • Move More Together: Find Your Fierce – whatever gets you up and moving – for better physical and mental health. Fierce 5-minute movement breaks and fitness classes on-demand.

 

  • Wellness Video – Healthy Shopping, Cooking, and Snacking: From the video – “Cookbooks like the ‘National Institute of Health: Deliciously Healthy Dinners Keep the Beat’ is a great place to start. In it you not only have these wonderful recipes but you also have the time it takes to prep.”

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  • My Fitness Pal: With an enormous food database, a barcode scanner, and recipe importer, tracking food on MyFitnessPal is fast and easy. The app tracks your nutrients and counts calories, plus it offers food insights to help you make healthier choices. You can also log your exercise and steps, as well as find support and motivation from the community.

 

  • DailyBurn: Looking to lose weight, tone up, or find a helpful introduction to fitness? DailyBurn can help you do it all, with quick workouts, personalized plans, access to personal trainers and healthy recipes, and much more. The app syncs with other health and fitness apps and offers streaming on demand so you can work out on your schedule.

 

  • Noom: Instead of telling you to eat less and move more, Noom uses a psychology-based approach to identify your deeply held thoughts and beliefs about nutrition and exercise. Then it builds a customized approach to help you create healthy habits. The app helps you track your weight, food, exercise, blood pressure, and blood sugar all in one place.

 

  • Fooducate: Eat better. Lose weight. Get healthy. Fooducate empowers you to achieve your diet, health, and fitness goals.

 

  • C25K®: C25K® is the easiest program to get beginners from couch potatoes to 5K distance runners in 8 weeks. Over 5 million people did it! Tailored for first time runners.

 

  • Map My Run: The best mobile run tracking experience, backed by the worlds largest digital health and fitness community. Own Every Mile.

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Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Mental health is important because it’s a vital part of your life and impacts your thoughts, behaviors and emotions. Being healthy emotionally can promote productivity and effectiveness in activities like work, school, or caregiving. Check out some of the healthful resources below to help you manage stress and manage self.

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  • Mental Health Training: This training is going to help you create a supportive and inclusive workplace. You will learn how to do the following things:
    • – Engage in practices that support emotional well-being
    • – Define mental health as a part of total health
    • – Descrbe the impact of mental healthand wellness in the workplace
    • – Support those in need
    • – Foster an environment where we can talk openly about mental health
    • – Be aware of mental health and wellness resources available to you

 

  • Mental Illness Happy Hour: So many of us have dealt with mental and emotional trauma in our lives. Yet so few of us feel comfortable or even safe talking about it out loud.

  • Host Paul Gilmartin hopes to change this with his lauded podcast, “Mental Illness Happy Hour.” Gilmartin interviews a variety of noted figures and celebrities about their experiences with mental illness or trauma.

    Gilmartin’s interviews run the gamut from tackling the link between sexual assault and PTSD with successful attorneys to uncovering how being raised by a parent with alcohol addiction can affect you in many invisible ways.

 

  • Filling Your Cup – Comprehensive Self-Care Strategies Curriculum: School staff well-being is essential to a healthy and resilient school. With this in mind, Healthier Generation, through the support of Kaiser Permanente, developed this engaging four-part on-demand training series packed with tools and resources to help school staff focus on their own well-being.

 

  • The Happiness Lab: Happiness can seem unattainable sometimes. This is especially true when the things you work hard to earn don’t bring the happiness you expect. That’s where Dr. Laurie Santos of Yale University thinks she can help.

    Dr. Santos hopes to show you that your own happiness is in your control in even the smallest ways using findings from cutting-edge scientific research on the link between human behavior and emotions.

    It’s no accident that Dr. Santos’ course “Psychology and the Good Life” is one of Yale’s most popular. Her main ambition is to help make you a little bit happier by teaching you to take ownership of how your mind works, and how your behavior can be your first line of defense against negativity.

 

  • Mental Health Awareness: 30-minute Webinar: Over the last year, people have experienced things they never would have dreamed of, and have had to weather storms over and over again. This is especially true in the field of education. All the unknowns and the constant regulation changes, and having to pivot and learn an entirely new way to do your job is no light task.

    Then you couple that with dealing with the personal stress that was created during the pandemic as well, and it is no surprise that people are experiencing feelings they may not have encountered before. Mental health has historically had a stigma around it, but organizations and people all over the world are working to remove the stigma. Knowledge is power and this is no different.

    Below you will find the details on how to access a 30-minute, self- guided training on Mental Health Awareness. For those of you navigating new waters, or those of you experiencing feelings that you have had before but are not sure what to do with, this may be a good webinar to watch.

 

  • Claremont EAP – Positivity Center: Claremont EAP’s special website with tips and tools to increase your happiness at work and at home. Claremont’s site helps guide you through information and practices to maintain physical and emotional well-being throughout your life. At Positivity Center, you’ll find key information about following topics: Resilience, Mindfulness & Meditation, Gratitude, the Science of Happiness, Workplace, Self-Assessments, and more. 

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  • Calm: Calm is the #1 app for sleep and meditation. Join the millions experiencing better sleep, lower stress, and less anxiety.

 

  • Headspace: Headspace’s guided meditation and mindfulness techniques for daytime use can help you find calmness, wellness, and balance. Before bed, try any of its new meditations for sleep including music, nature soundscapes, or storytelling sleepcasts. The app builds personalized plans based on a little input from you, so you can learn the essentials of meditation and build from there.

 

  • Loóna: loóna is the first app that lets you quickly disconnect from a long stressful day and get in the right mood for sleep. loóna isn’t a list of direct go-to-sleep techniques, but rather a mood-altering app that helps you to stay calm during the day and prepares you emotionally for going to sleep in the evening.

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Financial wellness isn’t just about saving for retirement. It’s about creating the balance you need today to take care of the needs for you and your family. Below we provide some initial tools and resources to assist you in planning for today and for your future with more understanding and confidence. Check out some of the healthful resources below to help you get more out of managing your money.

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  • The Ramsey Show: Dave Ramsey started on one station in Nashville back in 1992, sharing practical answers for life’s tough money questions. Today, the show reaches over 18 million combined weekly listeners. He’s also the author of seven bestselling books and has reached over 1 million people through Ramsey Solutions live events. A lot has changed through the years, but Dave and his team’s practical advice on life and money has remained consistent.

 

  • So Money Podcast with Farnoosh Torabi: So Money brings candid conversations about money with the world’s top business minds, authors and influencers including Arianna Huffington, Tim Ferriss, Gretchen Rubin, Seth Godin, Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Cramer, Margaret Cho and many others. On Fridays, tune in as Farnoosh tackles your biggest money questions on #AskFarnoosh

 

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  • Personal Capital: Digital Wealth Management and Free Personal Finance Tools. Free Dashboard – Link your accounts and track your entire net worth. Free Analysis – Work with an advisor to build a free Personalized Plan that’s yours to keep. Personalized Advice – Get Wealth Management custom-tailored to your unique situation.

 

  • Pocket Guard: PocketGuard makes it easy to take control of your money, optimize your spending and grow your savings automatically.

 

  • Prism: Prism is a free app that helps you get control of your money. Staying on top of your money is hard work! You only get paid a few times a month but you’ve got bills coming due all the time. Prism brings together all of your money, your bills and your pay to give you a complete picture. Pay your bills directly in Prism with total confidence!

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