With a new year approaching, we’re increasingly thinking about parts of our daily lives we could improve—whether that’s our approach to physical and mental health or prioritizing our finances and getting better organized. Last year, Google measured the top five most popular New Year’s resolution search terms: Get Healthy—62,776,640 searches Get Organized—33,230,420 searches Live Life [...]

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Whether you’re eager to get a good workout in before holiday feasting commences or looking for a relaxing escape amid a flurry of end-of-year activity, we’ve got you covered with a host of welcoming, community-centric events this December around the UW. This month, catch a play or performance, learn to improve your comfort and productivity [...]

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Many find New Year’s resolutions difficult to maintain—and with busy lives, they can be. But earlier this year, we decided to stash the excuses and take our resolutions to new heights. As part of the Dare to Do Challenge, more than 1,500 University of Washington faculty, staff, and families dedicated themselves to making meaningful, impactful [...]

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 Welcome to the fourth and final week of the Dare to Do 30 Day Challenge! Are you feeling more fit and making better food choices? How about living the organized lifestyle and keeping on track with a new 2017 budget? If the answer is yes—great work, that’s impressive! It can be difficult to make significant [...]

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We’re already on Day 15 of the Dare to Do 30-day Challenge! We recognize it isn’t easy to make multiple lifestyle changes—does one focus on all four areas each day or try and master one area before moving on to the next? We suggests that if you already eat healthy and exercise regularly, try focusing on [...]

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While some might look at a scale with a sense of dread, Hilary Law only saw opportunity. When the heart failure transition nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center received an email in late November about The Whole U’s plan to distribute digital scales donated by Pivotal Digital to the first 1000 registrants for its [...]

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Welcome to Week 2 of the Dare to Do challenge. This 30-day challenge focuses on four areas of wellness: fitness, nutrition, organization, and finances. Balance is not something you find; it’s something you create. After focusing on mindset and motivation in Week 1, this week we will work on strength training, getting greener in our meals, creating [...]

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Did you make a resolution this year? Was it to lose weight, exercise more, save more, spend less, and maybe get a little more organized? Just as the excitement of a New Year resolution may start to wear off, The Whole U is launching our 30-day challenge today. Welcome to week one! Over 1500 UW faculty [...]

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Even after 33 seasons as head coach of the University of Washington women’s golf team and a 2016 run to the program’s first national championship, Mary Lou Mulflur is quick to shoot down any notion that she has it all figured out. “The minute I think I have it figured out, I’m done,” she says. “When you [...]

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When you think of wellness, do you think of merely food and fitness? Are you an avid exerciser like me, yet your bedroom closet is a complete mess and your finances could be a little better? Or, instead, do you focus only on nutrition and budgets because you feel you have no time to exercise [...]

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Eating is a simple act. We place food into our mouths, chew it, and swallow it. We consume food for sustenance, energy, and growth. Dining, however, goes beyond the act of eating. Dining is the experience of eating. As Yuan Mei, Chinese poet, scholar, artist, and gastronome of the Qing Dynasty put it, “There is [...]

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Whether your goal is to have more energy, decrease your blood pressure or cholesterol, lose weight, or get more sleep, healthy eating is key. For Dare to Do, we’ve partnered with three experts at UW who really understand nutrition and weight loss. Read on for their insights on nutrition resolutions. Ben Atkinson currently works in [...]

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