First 1000 Days Initiative 2023 Trends Making stress management a key part in our daily routine has a profound impact on our overall health and on the health of expectant mothers and babies in particular. Together with weight management, exercise and communication, it will promote the best outcome for pregnancies and early childhood development and have a positive influence of the life of both parents…
From Disconnected to Connected: Bringing Spirit Back Into The Workplace
From Disconnected to Connected: Bringing Spirit Back Into The Workplace Written By: Jocelyn Pepe, Global Wellness Institute, Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Are you living a life that feels true to you? When you pause for a moment, what does it feel like? Organizations are facing multiple challenges today with high burnout rates, mental health struggles and declining employee retention, engagement, and satisfaction. Deepening our connections to…
Sound Wellness Initiative Trends for 2023
Sound Wellness Initiative 2023 Trends TREND 1: Sound Wellness Rooms in Spas and Hotels Spas and hotels are incorporating sound wellness into their facilities. While some spas, such as Burke Williams, feature special massages with sound therapy that may include anything  from prerecorded music to live performances of crystal or Tibetan singing bowls, others have a more intentional focus on sound as a singular healing…
Lifestyle Medicine Initiative Trends for 2023
Lifestyle Medicine Wellness Initiative 2023 Trends Lifestyle Medicine is a rapidly evolving field that aims to promote health and prevent chronic diseases by addressing lifestyle factors such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep and social support. The Medical Wellness Initiative predicts that some of the future trends in Lifestyle Medicine are: Trend 1: Personalized Lifestyle Medicine: With the advancement in genomics, metabolomics, and microbiome…
Gallup: Globally, Employees Are More Engaged—and More Stressed
Gallup undertakes the only representative sampling of the world’s workforce (surveying 160,000 a year). Their latest study has good and bad news: Employees are now more engaged at work but also feel much more stress. Engagement findings: The percentage of engaged employees globally rose from 2021 to 2022. Starting as low as 12%, the percentage of engaged employees has risen to 23%. That’s a disturbingly low…
The Big, Unaddressed Health & Wellness Issue: Surging Air Pollution and Wildfires
The Big, Unaddressed Health & Wellness Issue: Surging Air Pollution and Wildfires By Thierry Malleret, economist Seven million people die prematurely every year because of outdoor air pollution, making it one of the leading causes of early death. A recent update of the WHO air quality guidelines provides clear evidence of the damage that air pollution inflicts on human health at even lower concentrations than…
