Wellbeing

2024 Apr 17

The Sandwich Generation and Beyond: How to Be a Caregiver While Taking Care of Yourself

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Are you taking care of any or all of the following: children, parents, grandparents, other family members, friends, pets? Are you doing this while simultaneously working and trying to care for yourself? This hour is for you.

The Sandwich Generation refers to feeling “caught in the middle” of caretaking responsibilities across generations. Often, we are kind and giving to others while we push ourselves beyond our own limits. Indeed, well-meaning friends and relatives often tell you to take good care, but no one actually tells you how to do that! With the myriad of activities...

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2024 Apr 17

How to Modify Our Homes for More Safety, Serenity and Less Stress

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Whether we are helping our older parents or grandparents say at home longer - 89% of older Americans prefer to stay living in their homes as long as possible - or we are needing our homes to be our sanctuaries, this session focuses on the principles of universal design for aging and Well Home Design standards to create our dream homes. We'll take a Peter Pan house (a home built for someone who is never going to age) and go room by room showing you how to make your home or your loved one's home safe, how to address air care, green eco and sustainable design and the new trend in biophilic...

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2024 Apr 17

My Little Bundle of What-ifs: Calming Strategies for Postpartum Anxiety

1:00pm to 1:15pm

Many capable and loving new moms find themselves haunted by fears, worrying - what if my baby gets sick? What if I'm doing a bad job? Postpartum anxiety is a thing. In the time it takes to just get started with a worry, the Learn to Live clinical team shares some of the most impactful strategies for finding calm during this time. 

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2024 Apr 12

Mindful Parenting

9:00am to 9:45am

Bringing mindful attention to our skills as parents increases our capacity to form strong bonds with all the members of the family. This is because the practice of mindfulness cultivates the conditions of openness and receptivity in which communication and emotional connection naturally flourish. In this workshop, participants will learn about becoming more mindful people as well as more mindful parents, able to navigate the inevitable waves of joy and frustration that accompany every parent’s experience with a greater sense of ease.

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2024 Apr 10

Beyond the Baby Blues: Help and Hope for Postpartum Depression

1:00pm to 1:15pm

Far too often new moms find that the time of a new baby is anything but the joyous experience they had dreamt of, but don't give up, there is hope. Research has identified powerful strategies to get past the baby blues & postpartum depression. Knowing that motherhood is a busy time, this brief webinar offers strategies for mom's struggling with postpartum depression or the baby blues to help make this stage of life more joyous.

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2024 Apr 18

Teens & Money

8:30pm to 9:30pm

Young adults are primed to soak in new information. It’s a great time to guide them to money management techniques that can last a lifetime. Attendees will learn managing money effectively, preparing for common upcoming bills, opening checking and savings accounts, establishing credit (and use it wisely), and looking at investing options.

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2024 Apr 09

Teens & Money

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Young adults are primed to soak in new information. It’s a great time to guide them to money management techniques that can last a lifetime. Attendees will learn about managing money effectively, preparing for common upcoming bills, opening checking and savings accounts, establishing credit (and use it wisely), and looking at investing options.

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2024 Apr 25

The Office of Work/Life Programs and Resources Overview

12:00pm to 12:30pm

Harvard’s Office of Work/Life supports the health and wellbeing of benefits-eligible faculty, staff and postdoctoral fellows as well as their spouses/partners and child and adult/elder dependents. Grab your lunch and join to learn about these wide-ranging programs and resources.

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2024 Apr 24

Mindfulness of Physical Sensations, Working with Physical Pain

12:00pm to 12:45pm

We all experience physical pain at times in our lives. We get sick, we get injured—it happens. But what role does our mind play during these moments? Do we find ourselves resisting, blaming, becoming fearful or depressed? Mindfulness offers an alternative way. We will see what it’s like when we pay greater attention to arising physical sensations, and the mental reactions which accompany them. We will engage in exercises to recognize, address, and gently transform how the mind participates in the process of pain and healing.

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2024 Apr 24

Thriving Through Transition: Simple Menopause Strategies

1:00pm to 1:15pm

For many women, menopause is considered a loss... a time of uncertainty and change. Bodily sensations such as hot flashes and mood swings can be overwhelming and embarrassing. And for some women, there is a sense of sadness as their reproductive capacities come to an end. In this 15-minute webinar, we will share research-supported steps to thrive through this transition in life.

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2024 Apr 10

Financial Wellness- Overcoming Debt

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Carrying too much debt today can jeopardize your financial future. We will address the difference between good debt and bad debt, the impact of interest charges, managing your spending habits and creating good saving habits. By registering for this webinar, you will receive a follow up communication with the playback link of the live session.

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2024 Apr 09

Rebalancing the Mental Load: Breaking Free of Burnout

12:00pm to 12:30pm

Join Ashley Brichter, Certified Fair Play Facilitator and Family Strategist, for a conversation that will help you rebalance the load and break out of these patterns. You'll walk away with an action plan and strategies to navigate your personal circumstance as it relates to cultural expectations of domestic labor, weaponized incompetence, guilt, self-sabotage, and resentment. In this powerful space of collective accountability, you'll build a roadmap to help you set boundaries, improve your communication skills, and radically show up for yourself at home and at work, while dismantling...

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