Wellness & Well-being Highlights March 31st
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of Mar 31, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how the current political climate is impacting today’s workforce—to why secondary education administrators cringe at students’ Spring Break choices—to how US tariffs are cause for India’s hiring binge. This week I would like to take this opportunity to examine the importance of art and nature in the healing process.
In the first link below, CBS Sunday Morning reports, “…researchers have determined that involvement in the arts can improve public health and promote healing from illness, as well as protect against such problems as cognitive decline, heart disease, anxiety and depression.”1 Understanding that we need to not merely feed our bodies is known as ‘social prescribing’… which is a healthcare approach wherein health professionals refer patients to non-clinical community activities and services (i.e., arts, movement, volunteering, etc.) in order to improve their patients’ health and well-being.
In the second link below, the NYT reporter proclaims, “There is growing research that shows how spending time in nature can improve mental, physical and cognitive health….”2 I encourage readers to visit this link in order to discover how a doctor helped Hawaiians restore a specific, neglected land mass…in turn, healing this area was a means to healing natives’ bodies and souls. As a result, this sacred connection to the land allowed older people—once dependent on canes and walkers—to regain some mobility; diabetics saw their glucose levels drop; and depressed teens have become reinvigorated.
In these turbulent times, when it comes to our physical and mental well-being, all of us should to be open to various forms of self-care including, but not limited to, evidenced-based traditional and non-traditional methods.
Sources: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzMVLd57idg
2025: MH Crisis in the Workplace
EHRs / Doctors / Suicide Prevention
Bricklayers “swarm” Struggling Workers
Mexico / Fentanyl / Harm Reduction
Spring Break / Teens / Drinking…
Vets / Invisible Wounds / Suicide
Trump / Musk / Conflict of Interest (COI)
Trump / Supreme Court / Teachers’ Grants
Vax Programs / Poor Nations / Cuts
China / Military Drills / Taiwan
Tariffs Impact on Northern Neighbors
India / Tariffs / Hiring Binge
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
FREE Financial Wellness for Employees (4/2)
Grief after Suicide (Open thru 4/25)
Construction: MH & Suicide Prevention
NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.
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