Video Library

Previously Recorded Wellness Center Presentations

• How do I budget when I have no money?
• Cooper vs Hormonal IUDs
• Body Image & Eating in a Pandemic
• Rise & Grind & Drink Caffeine?
• Diet Culture 101
• Prioritizing Sleep
• Planning on Nexplannon
• Meditation, Yoga, and Mindfulness
• Cannabis Chronicles: Legalization & Evolving Inequity

Relationships, Connection, & Communication

• 5 ways to create stronger connections, Robert Reffkin
• Can we choose to fall out of love? Dessa Dutton
• The difference between health and unhealthy love, Katie Hood
• How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps, Christina Wallace
• The brain in love, Helen Fisher
• The mathematics of love, Hannah Fry
• The smelly mystery of the human pheromone, Tristram Wyatt
• How to create meaningful connections while apart, Priya Parker
• The power of communication, Nina Legath
• Txting is killing language. JK!!!, John McWhorter
• 6 communication truths that everyone should know, Antoni Lacinai
• The power of human connect, Giovanna Lever
• The power of vulnerability, Brené Brown

Sleep

• Matt Walker: Sleep is our superpower
• Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
• Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep. 
• Dan Gartenberg: The brain benefits of deep sleep- and how to get more of it
• Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
• Jeff lliff: One more reason to get a good night’s sleep
• Claudia Aquirre: What would happen if you didn’t sleep

Stress & Mental Illness

• How to make stress your friend by Kelly McGonigal
• How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed by Daniel Levitin
• Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness – from the inside
• Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity
• Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
• Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
• Faith Jegede: What I’ve learned from my autistic brothers
• Anees Bahji: What is schizophrenia?
• Renee Lertzman: How to turn climate anxiety into action
• Britt Wray: How climate change affects your mental health
• Olivia Remes: How to cope with anxiety
• Johann Hari: This could be why you’re depressed or anxious
• Kay M. Tye: What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health

Nutrition, Body Image, & Disordered Eating

• Jamie Oliver, “Teach Every Child about Food”
• Neal Bernard: Power foods for the brain
• The surprisingly dramatic role of nutrition in mental health – Julia Rucklidge
• Mark Bittman, “What’s Wrong With What We Eat”
• Dean Ornish, “The Killer American Diet That’s Sweeping the Planet”
• Paul Greenberg, “The Four Fish We’re Overeating – and What to Eat Instead”
• A.J. Jacobs, “How Healthy Living Nearly Killed Me”
• Alexa Kalach: What if you have an eating disorder?
• Ilona Kajokiene: Eating Disorders: Why is it so hard to treat them?
• Eve Lahijani: Trust your hunger and make peace with food
• Iskra Lawrence: Ending the pursuit of perfection
• Ashley Graham: Plus-size? More Like My Size
• Catherine Pawley: After anorexia: Life’s too short to weigh your cornflakes
• Lizzie Velasquez: How do you define yourself?
• Lindsay Kite: Body Positivity or Body Obsession? Learning to See More & Be More
• Lillian Bustle: Stripping away negative body image 
• Tamarah Gehlen: Living large at any size — creating a path for change

Exercise & Mindfulness

• Your body language shapes who you are by Amy Cuddy
• Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others
• Andy Puddicomfre: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
• Murat Dalkilinç: Why sitting is bad for you.
•  Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing benefits of exercise
• Pico Iyer: The Art of Stillness

Positive Psychology

• Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness
• Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
• Matthieu Ricard: The Habits of Happiness
• Martin Seligman: The New Era of Positive Psychology
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the Secret to Happiness
• Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness
• Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
• Carol Dweck: The Power of Believing That You Can Improve
• Angela Duckworth: The Key to Success? Grit
• Lea Waters: Warning – Being Positive is not for the Faint-Hearted!
• Robyn Stratton-Berkessel: Playful Inquiry — Try This Anywhere
• Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice
• Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias
• Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
• Philip Zimbardo: The Psychology of Time
• Chip Conley: Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile
• Daniel Goleman: Why Aren’t We More Compassionate?
• David Steindl-Rast: Want To Be Happy? Be Grateful

Intersectionality & Identity

• Kimberle Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality” 
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story”
• Samy Nour Younes, “A Short History of Trans People’s Long Fight for Equality” 
• Christina Greer, “An unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement”
• Baratunde Thurston, “How to deconstruct racism one headline at a time”

Sexual Violence, Feminism, & Toxic Masculinity

• Sarah Byrden, “Sex On Campus: How We’re Missing the Mark”
• Tarana Burke, “Me Too is a movement, not a moment”
• Jackson Katz, “Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue”
• Al Vernacchio, “Sex Needs A New Metaphor” 
• Ashley Judd, “How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control”
• Sunitha Krishnan, “The fight against sex slavery”
• Ione Wells, “How we talk about sexual assault online”
• Laura Bates, “Everyday Sexism”
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We Should All Be Feminists”
• Soraya Chemaly, “The Power of Women’s Anger” 
• Cecile Richards, “The political progress women have made, and what’s next”
• Justin Baldoni, “Why I’m done being man enough”
• Eldra Jackson 111, “How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity”
• Victor Rios, “Let’s get rid of toxic masculinity”
• Nathan Moore, “Toxic masculinity: thinking outside of the man box”