Wellness for Faculty and Staff

FIU Assistance and Wellness
This webpage links to the Employee Assistance Program and the Panther Active Wellness Services webpages.

FIU Teams - Wellness Wall and Wellness Wire
This interactive social media platform built on Microsoft Teams offers a continuously updating set of wellness resources and ideas for the HWCOM community. Under "Files," you can find the biweekly "Wellness Wire" newsletter.

FIU Virtual Events
To help you de-stress and stay connected to the university community, the FIU virtual events page details offerings from virtual study break stretches to virtual museum tours and 305 Cafecito chats.

In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way, Harvard Business Review Article
This article details five strategies for managers to express their appreciation to employees during the pandemic.

The Happiness Lab Presents: Checking In with Susan David, The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
A podcast where Susan David—a psychologist at Harvard Medical School— offers strategies to cope with our heightened emotions during this global pandemic.

On Self-Care and Resiliency in Race Equity Work
This article details ways you can care for yourself when working towards race equity.

Every Mind Matters, National Health Service
This website gives simple and practical advice to help you manage and maintain your mental health and to have a healthier mind and get more out of life – from how to deal with stress and anxiety, to boosting our mood or sleeping better. There's a section dedicated just to wellness during the pandemic. This site was created by Public Health England and approved by the NHS and endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Coping during COVID-19 Times, video created by FIU HWCOM Wellness Faculty
The brief video discusses using social media and the difference between social distancing and social isolation,and details the FACE COVID acronym for managing these uncertain times.

Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An illustrated guide, WHO Guide
This illustrated, simple guide focuses on 5 essential tools for dealing with stress: grounding, unhooking, acting on your values, being kind, and making room.

Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus, Greater Good Website
This website offers podcasts, articles, videos, and practices for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19 on many topics, including stress and anxiety, fostering connection, mindful breathing, building resilience, well-being, and more.

Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure, Chronicle of Higher Education Article
This article offers steps one can take to help them to adapt to conditions of crisis.

Anxiety and COVID-19, Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Video
This is a video about dealing with anxiety and cultivating resiliency during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization
This article offers messages that can be used to support mental and psychosocial well-being for all of us, healthcare workers, team leaders, carers of children, older adults, and those in isolation.

Psychological First Aid for Your Team, University of Utah
This article discusses communicating with your team during times of crisis.

Practicing Wellness While You Stay at Home, Johns Hopkins Article

Coursera Free Courses for Wellbeing

That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief, Harvard Business Review article
This article talks about naming and facing the grief of the coronavirus pandemic.

Virtual Classes led by Baptist Health South Florida
Type “virtual” in the Keyword box, then click “more information” for a list of this week’s classes on topics such as wellness, meditation, yoga, line dancing, managing anxiety, kid’s yoga, and mindful eating. 

Health Care Provider Well-Being During COVID-19, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus article
This article outlines concrete strategies to help health care providers manage stress during this challenging time.

Virtual Exercise Classes led by Baptist Health South Florida
Type “virtual” in the Keyword box, then click “more information” for a list of this week’s classes.

CorePower Yoga
CorePower Yoga is offering free videos of yoga classes online.

CrossFit
CrossFit is offering free videos of workouts that are done in a home setting online.

Yoga with Adriene
This free website offers many yoga videos in various lengths and for any intention. Our students recommended we add this site!

Day 1: Exercises for improving strength in your legs, video by Noel Barengo, MD PhD MPH
This first video provides some examples for routine exercises to strengthen your legs. Dr. Barengo suggests repeating 2-3 series of each exercise.

Day 2: Workout for your upper body, video by Noel Barengo, MD PhD MPH
This video provides some exercises that will strengthen your upper body. Dr. Barengo suggests you repeating 2-3 series of each exercise.

Day 3: Arms and shoulder exercises, video by Noel Barengo, MD PhD MPH
This video presents some exercises you can easily do at home to strengthen your shoulders and arms. Dr. Barengo suggests you repeating 2-3 series of each exercise.

Day 4: Working out with kids, video by Noel Barengo, MD PhD MPH
This workout shows muscle strengthening exercises Dr. Barengo did with his children. It focuses on exercises for the knees, the core (abdomen and back) and arms. It also includes some elements of aerobic exercise. Dr. Barengo suggests you repeating 2-3 series of each exercise.

Fitness Studio Exercise Videos, by the United Kingdom's National Health Service
This website offers many free exercise videos, including aerobic, strength and resistance, Pilates, and yoga. There are exercises to tone your abs, raise your heart rate, and tone your upper arms. They offer 10 and 12 week workout plans as well as specialized workouts for new mothers (postnatal yoga) and specific health problems (Pilates for back pain). The videos range from 10 to 45 minutes.

A Guide for Working (from Home) Parents, Harvard Business Review article

Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus, Greater Good Website
This website offers podcasts, articles, videos, and practices for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19 on many topics, including stress and anxiety, fostering connection, mindful breathing, building resilience, well-being, and more.

Managing your students’ mental health during public health emergencies, Osmosis.org
This 4:29 minute youtube video offers 4 tips to help you support student mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.

Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus, Greater Good Website
This website offers podcasts, articles, videos, and practices for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19 on many topics, including stress and anxiety, fostering connection, mindful breathing, building resilience, well-being, and more.

To Be Seen, Heard, and Valued
This Academic Medicine journal article offers strategies to promote a sense of belonging for women and underrepresented in medicine physicians.

Preparing for Battle: How Hospitalists Can Manage the Stress of COVID-19, article from Annals of Internal Medicine
This article offers practical tips leaders can take to support their workforce and sustain patient care and steps individuals can take to support self-care.

Physician Support Line
This phone line provides confidential, free, peer support for US physicians including Puerto Rico during the pandemic and is staffed by a grassroots organization made up of 500+ volunteer psychiatrists who are providing free and confidential peer support during the covid19 pandemic to physician colleagues.
The phone number is: 1-888-409-0141
Hours are: 7 days/week, 8am-12am EST

The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Black Health Care Workers in the U.S., Harvard Business Review Article
This HBR article details the physical and psychological impact of COVID-19 on black health care workers as well as how to support black health care workers.

Preserving Well-being in a Pandemic, Behind the White Coat Podcast by the AAMC
In this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” David Skorton, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, senior associate dean for well-being and resilience and chief wellness officer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, about how we can care for ourselves, and others, in the era of COVID-19.