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Motivation

Visualize Success: Start With Your Now to Create Your Future

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on October 13, 2020

How envisioning goals helps what's real on the inside become real on the outside.

Relationships

Stay Close to People Who Feel Like Sunlight

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on August 24, 2020

Why high-quality relationships are as important to our mental and physical health, happiness and cognitive well-being as food and water.

Relationships

Reaching for Quality Time

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on July 28, 2020

Start with self-care to optimize the gift of time with those you love.

Health

The Neurobiology of Service: How 1+1 Can Equal 3

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on July 13, 2020

Stronger together: How lending a hand and being a light to others improves your health and happiness.

Gratitude

Setting Gratitude as Your Magnetic North

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on June 29, 2020

Feeling overwhelmed? Learn how an attitude of gratitude, finding a silver lining no matter how dire, improves biochemistry, boosts mood, and protects health.

Meditation

Meditation Is a Medically Proven Antidote to Chronic Stress

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on June 22, 2020

How meditation helps us be our own first responders.

Genetics

Use Your Fork Wisely to Clean Up Your Immune System

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on June 16, 2020

How smart nutritional choices can supercharge the intelligence of your immune system.

Sleep

Why Sleep Is the Clean-Up Crew for Your Brain

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on June 1, 2020

To boost mood, mental wellness and physical health, make sure to get your zzz's!

Environment

Why Exercise Is Mother Nature’s Magic Pill

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on May 21, 2020

Want to feel healthier, happier, more creative, smarter, and younger? Try a daily dose of exercise.

Health

Mother Nature's Oxygen Mask: Reduce Stress and Boost Health

Sheila Ohlsson Walker CFA, Ph.D. on May 15, 2020

Things we can do, starting right now, to emerge from this crisis with new habits that empower us and our families to flourish.