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Recharge Your Care with February Events

February is American Heart Month, dedicated to raising awareness about heart health and urging us all to take steps to prevent heart disease. There is no question that the heart is an essential organ. It beats about 2.5 billion times over the average lifetime and pushes millions of gallons of blood to every part of [...]

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Championing staff-directed change: UWMC’s Healthy Work Environment Workshop Series

In 2022, University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) launched a system-wide initiative called the Healthy Work Environment (HWE) Workshop Series. This initiative involved a series of four workshops that provided education, guidance and collaboration to healthcare teams that were interested in improving the health of their work environments. Based on the American Association of Critical [...]

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A grand vision for higher education’s future: Meet Dianne Harris

Colleges and universities around the world are experiencing a range of new and historically unmatched pressures for change. The structures, systems, built environments and resources that have served as the fundamental frameworks for higher education are no longer consistently meeting the needs of the diverse citizenry these institutions aim to serve. This is perhaps especially [...]

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Establishing Family Eating Habits

Throughout the pandemic, many of us found ourselves adjusting to a different pace of life and finding new ways to connect more meaningfully. One way to do so is through family meals. Prioritizing family meals is important for improving family connections, and teaching children how to be competent eaters. While family meals do not have [...]

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15 Exercises for Financial Fitness

Finances can be stressful even without a pandemic. Striving to be financially fit takes practice, consistency, and hard work. But at the end of the day, efforts to increase your financial education and freedom have a positive impact on your overall wellbeing, from reduced stress and anxiety to a heightened sense of security. When it [...]

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Communicating respectfully with people of all gender expressions

Gender diversity has existed throughout time and across cultures. However, in many western cultures we have been socialized to treat gender as binary, only recognizing men and women. In this context, understanding what gender-inclusive language is and how to use it can be confusing: it’s not typically something we learn in school, it’s constantly evolving, [...]

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Serving her community: Meet Val Schweigert

When Val Schweigert meets with a student in a one-to-one advising session, they* seldom lead with their status as a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve. *Val uses the pronouns she/her and they/them interchangeably. This profile will emphasize this conscious choice by using them interchangeably as well. Proudly genderqueer and fiercely progressive, Val does not [...]

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MLK Day: Remembering the Roots and Continuing the Work

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Strength to Love, 1963. This year will mark the 40th anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday being signed into federal law. As we celebrate [...]

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Exercise Motivation with The Whole U

I love setting goals and sharing my intentions about health and wellness through writing about exercise and physical activity for The Whole U—it’s a great way to inspire others and share all of the amazing resources The Whole U has to offer. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the big, hard-to-attain goals: capital-R [...]

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