By Gabe Sanders PhD, NSCA-CSCS Feeling anxious or stressed lately? You’re not alone and new research suggests your weekend habits might have more to do with them than you think. Move more. Stress Less.
Manage your emotions and improve your health and well-being
By Siobhan Hicks, MPH Researchers have suggested that higher emotional intelligence (EI) is linked to improved psychological and physical health. Those who have higher EI are skilled both in understanding and regulating their own emotions, and in reading and managing the emotions of others.
Professional burnout? Here are some tips to prevent that…
By Siobhan Hicks, MPH When people are stressed and trying to make certain decisions (big or small), they are more likely to postpone choices or stick with the status quo, less likely to plan ahead, and more likely to be distracted by irrelevant information.
Get out of the Fast Food trap! It’s destroying your Mind
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS Aside from fast food wreaking havoc on your health and immune system, it can significantly alter your mood and mental health.
Mental Health Education in African American Church Culture
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS Group-type of education, may also promote conversations, experiences, and help individual people see their struggle as not so unique in some ways and that other people with similar, or different, beliefs and values still struggle in similar ways.
Is Suicide Preventable?
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS For those in need of encouragement, just know that we, human beings, are not judged based on our response to our best times and we certainly are not judged how we respond to our darkest times.
Addictive Social Media use and Mental Health
By Gabe Sanders Ph.D., NSCA-CSCS A vast amount of research suggests that constant social media use will likely result in social isolation, various forms of depression, stress, anxiety, etc. How can we change?
Exercise and mental health: more than just medicine.
Brandon Pollock PhD, ACSM-EP-C Researchers have even considered exercise a “polypill” ; because in addition to the many benefits in preventing/treating several mental diseases, it has the advantage of not generating adverse responses and of being a low cost alternative.