How to Breathe Better at Work
Not sure why you;re feeling stressed or ancious at work? One solution may be as simple as taking a deep breath
Three Ways to Tap into the Wisdom of the Body
A full toolbox of practice to help you meet the chaos of life with awareness, acceptance, and deep knowledge that you have the strength to [...]
Meditation for Children who have had traumatic experiences
Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explains
Sticking to Your Meditation Practice
4 Science-Backed Tips for Sticking to Your Meditation Practice
A 12-Minute 4-7-8 Breathing Meditation
Mindful breathing technique to help clear stale air from your lungs and stimulate the vagus nerve.
Mental Health Education
Ongoing educational online workshops and newsletter
How to Develop Your Sense of Agency
Taking control of your life means cutting through all the noise, finding balance, thinking more clearly, and advocating for yourself.
Individual Resilience: Factsheet for Responders
Explanation of Resilience for those whose job involves helping others following trauma.
Episode 115: Feel Better About Asking For Help
Does asking for help make you uncomfortable? Odds are, it'll go better than you think.
How Burned Out Are You? A Scale For Teachers
Leichtman Burnout Scale helps assess your level of burnout
Burnout: Heard of It?
While burnout is never solely your responsibility to fix, mindfulness can help us navigate the individual and systemic solutions. We're launching a new podcast called [...]
Life Crafting
Life Crafting: sharpen your sense of purpose by defining and committing to your goals.
Goal Visualization
A way to tackle a daunting task -- goal visualization -- it will take you 10 minutes each day for 3 weeks.
Sense of Purpose and Academic Engagement
Purpose and Gratitude Boost Academic Engagement
Cultivating an Open Heart
A 12-Minute Meditation to Cultivate an Open Heart
The Benefits of Having a Sense of Purpose
A sense of purpose is integral to the human experience.
What is the Sense of Belonging?
The human emotional need to affiliate with members of a group.
Better Humans
Let your purpose transcend yourself and point away from you
Larger than yourself
Learn from others associated with something larger than themselves
How to Learn From Your Failures
Research suggests that we need to overcome some emotional and cognitive barriers if we’re to learn from our defeats—but it can be done.
Emotions and Goals
Three Emotions that can help you succeed at your goals -- willpower and grit aren't the best route to persevering at your goals and achieving [...]
Why Timing Matters for Your Happiness and Success
Why Timing Matters for your Happiness and Success: an explanation of the psychology of time and how to harness it for greater well-being.
How Regrets Can Help You Make Better Decisions
Regrets - for better or worse can shape our decision making process.
How to Make Better Decisions
Practicing mindfulness when it comes to decision making
How Wisdom, Resilience and Mastery Work Together to Boost Well-Being in Old Age
Wisdom helps strengthen resilience and mastery to reduce stress and increase well-being, improving a person’s ability to better handle later-life adversity and age-related loss.
10 Reasons why Work Life Balance is Important (especially in 2022)
Blog post on defining and achieving Work Life Balance
How To Organize Your Life: Personal Planning
How to organize your personal life. Differentiating between work, relationships etc
Top 4 ways to create a sense of accomplishment in your team
Employee's sense of accomplishment
Prevent a False Sense of Accomplshment from Hurting Your Progress
The problem with dopamine and work
6 Ways to Feel a Great Sense of Accomplishment
Article about different ways to feel accomplished.
Sleep Deprivation in US Teens
School start times and screen time in the evening worsen sleep quality in teenagers.
Obesity: too much salt, not enough water
Lack of hydration and salt intake - how these two things impact obesity.
Small Daily Practices to Boost Mental Health
Positive psychological behaviors promote good mental health hygiene, which reduces stress and improves overall well-being.
The Science of Sleep: Understanding What Happens When You Sleep
The human body and sleep - function, quality, and why quality matters.
Proven behaviors to help you sleep
Tips and tricks to help with sleep.
Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness
Steps we can take to cultivate humility instead of resorting to defensiveness
Repairing Relationships
Why intentional relationship repair can be more functional than a regular "I'm sorry".
Rewarding Teens for Being Kind
Exploring parenting practices for raising compassionate kids.
What happens when children have to behave like adults?
When children act as adults and how it affects relationships from childhood into adulthood
Feeling Connected enhances mental and physical health
Researched ways to enhance physical and mental health
Happiness Break: 36 Questions to help feel Connected
Reconnect with someone you love or create new, more meaningful bonds with these 36 questions.
Resources for Children
Collection or resources for use with children who have faced challenges and adversity.
Estimating our Future Expenses
We tend to underestimate our future expenses -- how can we do better?
How much money do people want to achieve their ideal life?
Research offers a surprising answer to the question: how much money do people want to achieve their ideal life?
How to Manage Your Money
clever girl finance: Video instruction series including nineteen steps to managing your money the right way!
Credit Management
A non-profit organization provides help and education regarding credit concerns.
12 Priceless Online Sources For Improving Your Financial Education
Learn the best ways to get your finances into shape!
How to Turn Grief into Strength
How to turn grief into strength -- a podcast on a helpful writing practice
Habit Change Tools and Mindfulness
Most Habit-Change Tools Fail with Anxiety -- Here's one that works
Stress Management: Definition, Techniques, Strategies
What is stress management? How do we control, reduce, and cope with our stress? Check out these science-based stress management strategies.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
How Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Can Reach Many More People in Need
100 Ways to Reduce Stress: Making the Balancing Act More Manageable
Yet we do not need statistics to tell us that we feel stressed, exhausted, and creatively depleted when we do not care for ourselves. Below [...]
How to use Guided Imagery
Have you ever been in the middle of a stressful situation and wished you could be somewhere else—like lying on a tropical beach? Guided imagery [...]
Social Emotional Intelligence Assessment
So, how emotionally intelligent are you, and how can you develop further? Find out below.
Individual Resilience
People can develop the ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from stress and adversity—and maintain or return to a state of mental health wellbeing—by [...]
Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown
Interviews with experts and those with lived experience focused on Mental and Behavioral Health
Building Your Resilience
We all face trauma, adversity, and other stresses. Here’s a roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations, and emerging even stronger than before.
How People Learn to Become Resilient
Learning how to build resilience skills.
Reflecting on Your Own Capabilities Boosts Resilience
The unpredictable nature of life during the coronavirus pandemic is particularly challenging for many people. Not everyone can cope equally well with the uncertainty and [...]
Can Purpose Help Us in Hard Times?
Well-being researchers discuss the benefits of purpose in a crisis and how we can cultivate it at home and at work.
Self-Motivation: Definition, Examples,
Are you having a hard time getting motivated? Are you curious about what leads to greater self-motivation or how you can boost yours? Then you’re [...]
Flow: Definition and Tips to get into Flow
Discusses the research behind 'flow', what it is and how you can get into the flow to increase your enjoyment and success at work.
Self-Affirmations: Definition, 195 Examples, & Lists
What is self-affirmation? Learn the different perspectives and get a list to try.
Mental Contrasting – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
In this post, we shall discuss exactly what mental contrasting is and is not. We shall look at the good and bad of mental contrasting.
The Science of Accomplishment – 30 Motivational Skills to Get Your New Year’s Resolution Done
Accomplishment is not one inspirational technique or burst of willpower away. It's a skill, with lessons to practice and techniques to internalize. The skills on [...]
Cultures of Care
Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways.
Four Ways Social Support Makes You More Resilient
While much of the research on resilience focuses on individual strengths, it’s social support that may matter the most.
Explore Groups in your Neighborhood
Whatever you’re looking to do this year, Meetup can help. For 20 years, people have turned to Meetup to meet people, make friends, find support, [...]
50 Low Cost Hobbies
Do you want to find a fun and exciting hobby that’s also educational, fulfilling, and will enhance your life? There are tons of mental health [...]
The COVID 19 Pandemic has Inspired new Health Habits for these 4 Scholars — Here’s What They put into Practice and Why
For some people, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about change – some welcome and some not so welcome – to their routines or to what [...]
Adverse Childhood Experiences, the Brain, and Sleep
Many of us don’t fully appreciate how too little or poor-quality sleep affects mood, brain function, and brain health.
Helping others makes us happier – but it matters how we do it.
Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there's a [...]
How to Prioritize Spending
The flowchart presents a series of yes/no questions that explain exactly how you should prioritize your spending and investing.
Coping with Stress
Learning to cope with stress in a healthy way will make you, the people you care about, and those around you become more resilient.
Healthy Minds
With a combination of podcast-style lessons and both seated and active meditations, you’ll learn what the science says about the brain while developing skills to [...]
Gratitude Journal
Gratitude is like most desirable traits and qualities in that it is usually not enough to simply decide to be grateful—we must actively practice it [...]
Self-Compassion Guided Practices and Exercise
Self-Compassion Guided Practices and Exercise.
Six Ways to Incorporate Awe into your Daily Life
Article on the relationship between awe and stress reduction.
Center on the Developing Child
The effect of positive and negative experiences on children and how they balance out.
Resilience Theory: What Research Articles in Psychology Teach us
Definition, articles, 3 free resilience exercises.
5 Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
5 strategies for building resilience.
How Feeling a Sense of Purpose Influence’s Physical Activity, according to research
There's plenty of good to come of exercising more: Beyond just the physical health benefits, it can contribute to greater happiness, and now evidence suggests that [...]
How to Create a Sense of Purpose, According to Science
Training your mind to find meaning in everyday life
The Absolute Best Free Online Classes for Learning Something New
List and description of free online classes in many topics!
The Science and Psychology of Goal Setting 101
Goal-setting in psychology is an essential tool for self-motivation and self-drivenness – both at personal and professional levels.
Career Advice from Dick Bolles
Advice for job-hunters, career changers, and career coaches.
Harvard Researchers Say This Mental Shift Will Help You Live a Longer, Healthier Life
Sense of purpose and relationships are the key to a healthier, happier life.
Social Connection Boosts Health, Even When You’re Isolated
Social connection is the key to health and happiness…even when you're alone.
Volunteer Match
VolunteerMatch is the largest network in the nonprofit world, with the most volunteers, nonprofits and opportunities to make a difference.
Mindful Eating
Mindful eating stems from the broader philosophy of mindfulness, a widespread, centuries-old practice used in many religions.
Healthy Sleep Babits and Quick Sleep Tips
Your behaviors during the day, and especially before bedtime, can have a major impact on your sleep. They can promote healthy sleep or contribute to [...]
15 Science-backed Tips on How to Sleep Better
Good sleep is a foundation for good health and a happier frame of mind. But when was the last time you woke up feeling refreshed, alert, and [...]
Eat Healthy on a Budget
With a little planning, savvy shopping and tasty recipes to cook at home, you’ll be well on your way. The Spend Smart. Eat Smart. Team [...]
World Health Organization Healthy Living Tips
The start of a new decade brings with it new resolutions to improve one’s life, including a healthier lifestyle. Here are 20 practical health tips [...]
529 Plan – College Savings 101
A 529 plan, also known as a qualified tuition plan, is an investment account that offers tax benefits when used to pay for qualified education expenses for [...]
50 profitable side hustle ideas
Working from home has created the perfect environment for anyone to earn a few extra bucks with a side hustle. Depending on your unique needs and your skills, [...]
Investing apps for beginners
A review of 13 different investing apps for beginners.
Budget Planner Worksheet
Input your income and expenses, and we'll show how your spending compares to the 50/30/20 budget.
What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living
This talk challenges us to think beyond the divide between "sick" and "well," asking: How do you begin again and find meaning after life is [...]
The Secret to Forming a New Habit
A simple step to shift your mindset and keep you on track to achieving your grandest ambitions from Christine Carter, Sociologist.
The Brain-changing Benefits of Exercise
Working out boosts your mood and memory — and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. From Wendy Suzuki, Neuroscientist.
An Honest Look at the Personal Finance Crisis
An honest conversation about financial trouble and offers practical advice for how to live a richly textured life on a limited income: Resilience Circles. From [...]
The Road Ahead: Reframing the Teen Experience
Video on adolescent brain development reframing the teen experience as the time to be curious, daring, and vulnerable from Center for Public Partnerships & Research [...]
Six Ways to Incorproate Awe Into Your Daily Life
Article on the relationship between awe and stress reduction from Greater Good Science Center.
Parenting Resilient Children
Building children's resilience at home from Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health.
Activities for Mindfulness at Work
Six activities you can do to keep you mindful into the workplace from Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health.
Forest Bathing, Nature Time are Hot Health Advice
Research on the health benefits of spending time outdoors from WebMD.
The Secret to Living Longer May Be Your Social Life
Is Sardinia's emphasis on close personal relationships and face-to-face interactions the secret to living longer? From Susan Pinker, Developmental Psychologist.
How to Ikigai
Do what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, what you can be rewarded for from Tim Tamashiro.
Your Money Matters: An Adult’s Guide to Personal Finances
Step-by-step guide to basic money management from Oklahoma Money Matters.
Creating a Healthier Life
A step-by-step guide to wellness from SAMHSA.
How to Translate Values Into Committed Action
Setting values-based goals and moving to action from Mindfulness Muse.
How to Stop Ruminating
How to shift your thinking when you get stuck on a negative topic from Healthline.
Find Out Your Financial Well-being
Assessment of current financial situation and links to helpful resources from Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.
CDC Best Practices: Resilience
CDC offers many "best practice" documents informed by research evidence across the population; specific resources included related to pandemic-related resilience from CDC.
Work Life Balance
Key research findings on benefits of work life balance from Joe Robinson.
InsightTimer
App for sleep, anxiety, & stress with meditation, yoga, and sleep resources from InsightTimer.
11 Simple Health Habits Worth Adopting Into Your Life
Article on 11 health habits for busy people from Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials.
Physical Wellness Toolkit
Strategies for improving your physical health from National Institute of Health.
Healthy Living
Topics that cover a wide range of healthy living choices from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Emotional Wellness Toolkit
Resources on emotional wellness from National Institute of Health.
VIA Institute on Character
Character strengths assessment to help you find greater well-being from VIA Institute on Character.
Authentic Happiness
Free resources to learn about positive psychology through readings, videos, research, questionnaires, and more from University of Pennsylvania.
Positive Psychology Center
Website that promotes research, training, & education of information on positive psychology, resilience, and grit from University of Pennsylvania.
Well-Being Concepts
Articles and resources on well-being from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
7 Tips for Finding Your Purpose in Life
Article with practical tips for finding your purpose in life from Amy Morin, LCSW.
How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Article on discovering your purpose in life from Jeremy Adam Smith.
What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death
Reflection on life and purpose, living and dying, love and loss from Lucy Kalanithi, MD.
My Failed Mission to Find God and What I Found Instead
Uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity and what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us from Anjali Kumar, JD.
How to Gain Control of your Free Time
How do we find time for what matters most? A few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us from Laura [...]
Raising Ready Readers
Workshop on literacy development for parents with children ages 3-6 from Iowa State Extension and Outreach.
Use the Time Management Matrix to Manage Your Time
Description and tips for using the time management matrix from Time Management Success: Do What Matters.
Parenting Lessons from the Longest Study on Human Development
What science tells us about the influence of parenting on children from Helen Pearson, Science Journalist, Editor at Nature.
ABC Method of Prioritization
Description of how to use the ABC method from Shelley Bablitz.
Time Management Tips: How to Use An ABC List
Five simple steps for implementing the ABC list time managment strategy from American Intercontinental University.
Get Motivated for the New Year
Article with four goal setting strategies and resources to get you motivated for the new year from Purdue University Global.
Social Wellness Toolkit
Strategies for improving your social health from National Institute of Health.
The Science of Parenting
Podcasts and a blog about parenting issues with real-life situations based on scientific research from Iowa State Extension and Outreach.
BounceBack Books
A collection of suggested books to help children learn about resilience from the KU Center for Public Partnerships and Research and the Iowa Department of [...]
Why Most Parenting Advice is Wrong
Challenges the complicated prevailing wisdom about parents’ role in their children’s futures from Yuko Munakata, Prof. Developmental Psychology & Neuroscience at University of Colorado, Boulder.
Financial Planning
Financial planning tools and resources from Iowa State Extension and Outreach.
MyMoney.gov
Financial wellbeing resources from the Financial Literacy and Education Commission.
How to Start a Conversation About Suicide
How to help open up conversations about suicide in the community and reduce stigma from Jeremy Forbes, “Life Preserver.”
Failure Cultivates Resilience
How to create behavior change and build resilience from Raphael Rose, Clinical Psychologist, UCLA Anxiety and Depression Research Center (ADRC).
Mid-Morning Mindfulness Recordings
Short recordings for mindfulness practice from Iowa State University WellBeing.
Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid
We all need to practice emotional hygiene and taking care of our emotions and our minds. Impact of loneliness from Guy Winch, Psychologist.
Goal-Setting Strategies for Scientific and Career Success
Goal setting strategies for career success from Cynthia N. Fuhrmann, Jennifer A. Hobin, Philip S. Clifford, Bill Lindstaedt.
Five Healthy Habits Net More Healthy Years
Research focused article about healthy habits and their impact on longer life expectancy from Monique Tello, Contributor, Harvard Health Publishing.
3 Secrets of Resilient People
Developing the capacity to brave adversity, overcome struggle and face it with fortitude and grace from Lucy Hone, Director of the New Zealand Institute of [...]
How to Improve your Psychological Well-Being
Article on fostering your own well-being through positive thinking, creating purpose, and fostering relationships from Amy Morin, LCSW.
How to Raise Kids who Can Overcome Anxiety
Why a healthy dose of risk helps kids cultivate lasting confidence and resilience from Anne Marie Allbano, Psychologist.
Plan Well, Retire Well
Resources on retirement planning from Illinois Extension.
Consumer Economics
Program, podcasts, webinars on money management from Illinois Extension.
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