Maintaining Optimism in an Era of Overwhelming Environmental News Environmental Wellbeing By: Cassie Freund Cassie Freund is a PhD candidate in Miles Silman’s lab in the Department of Biology. She studies forest recovery after landslides in the Peruvian Andes. Recycle. Drink from a reusable water bottle. […]
WFU Spiritual Wellbeing By: The Reverend James D. Franklin III James Franklin serves as Campus and Young Adult Missioner in Winston Salem, North Carolina, primarily at Wake Forest University. He holds degrees from Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas (Masters of Divinity) and UNC Chapel […]
Post-Graduation Financial Advice Asia Parker, WFU Financial Aid Counselor If graduation is near and dear to you, congratulations and way to go DEACS! If you are still working hard, don’t worry, there will be useful tips and tricks in here for you too. That being […]
What can tree pose teach you about work-life balance? Megan Hoyt Think of the word balance. What comes to mind for you? I think of being in a yoga class. Most likely, I’m standing in tree pose, and most certainly, I’m struggling to keep my […]
What do tomatoes, the number 8, and tortoises have in common with your Intellectual Wellbeing? November is Intellectual Wellbeing Month at Wake Forest. Intellectual Wellbeing incorporates one’s curiosity and sense of lifelong-learning. Ultimately, your time at Wake Forest will provide you with a liberal arts […]
This Post is Not About Self-Care Brooke Griffith, Psy.D., HSP-P There is so much learning that happens at college outside of the classroom. It’s difficult to tell incoming students what all those things are, yet, ask anyone on campus and it’s likely that at some […]
Welcome to Social Wellbeing Month! So I’m sure we’ve all taken those personality tests that gauge our levels of how much of an introvert or extrovert we are. Some of us lean entirely to one side, and some of us gather in the middle, but […]
Exercise…we all know we need it but most Americans don’t make the time for it. We are busy people after all! I’m here to offer you some good news about exercise– something is always better than nothing! Last year the US Department of Health and […]
After a day spent wandering around the woods of Kentucky, the Cistercian mystic Thomas Merton wrote, “No words that were ever spoken can equal the sound of the wind in the pine trees.” At first, this conviction might sound a little inflated. Surely Merton’s pine […]
Welcome to Spiritual Wellbeing Month – February 2019. I love walking around WFU campus. I feel connected to and by the people on campus, as well as by the miracles of nature. I feel the spirituality around us and am lifted by it. Generally, […]