Tag: mindfulness

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What I Learned Attending a Health & Wellness Workshop

The workshop focused on how to make behavioural changes in order to positively influence your feelings and emotions. Workshop facilitators emphasized how behaviour can influence mood, which can create a cycle of negative moods and behaviours. Behavioural change is needed to break that cycle.
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Study Tips, Stress-Management & Healthy Habits to Help You Get #ExamReadyUofT

Missed our #ExamReadyUofT Facebook Live chat about study tips, stress-management and healthy habits during exam season? Watch the replay here! H&W Peer Supporter Kenzie, HealthyU Crew team member Sharly, and AS Peer Facilitator Sarah share tips for self-care, sleep, procrastination, time-management…
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Can you practice mindfulness while eating? Takeaways from a mindfulness workshop

This blog post is written by guest blogger Mary Cortinas (she/her), a Healthy UCrew Ambassador and first-year nursing student. Mary completed her HBSc in Nutrition and Human Biology at U of T.            Mindfulness is a word that has been more…
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Change the Behaviour, Not the Feeling: Coping With Difficult Thoughts

If there’s one thing that’s plagued me in my social life it is accepting difficult thoughts. Whether it’s worrying about saying something wrong in a first impression to someone, ruminating about a friend not texting me back, or overthinking a…
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The Overemphasis on Having Friends in College (And Why It’s Okay Not to Have Any)

Who are friends? Are they the people you go out with? The people you see in class and study with? The ones available during a quarter-life crisis? Or are they all the above? The environment of campus life gives off…
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