BestHealth for Us: Recent Episodes
Wake Forest Baptist Health
BestHealth For Us promotes a culture of wellness in our workplace. Everything we do is aimed at helping you Live Well, Care Well and Be Well.
Supplemental worksheets are available at BestHealth4Us.com and a link to The Well podcast too!
Sleep is an important part of a healthy life. In class 2 learn how to reduce daytime fatigue, increase your energy, and have more restful sleep. Improving the quality of your sleep is a great first step in taking control of your health.
Meditation is a great way to find peace, but can be hard. Join this guided meditation to help find that inner peace and quiet.
Creative practices can help promote self-care, increase wellbeing, and encourage self-expression. Art therapist Emily Ortiz Badalamente will share the benefits of engaging in artmaking for wellness, along with practices and prompts to manage stress and connect to your creative side.
Managing stress is no easy task, in this class you’ll find daily ways to help incorporate stress management techniques into your life. Whether work or personal stress has become overwhelming, take this opportunity to learn new tools to work through challenges you may be facing.
This week, we talk with Dr. Sarah Taylor about ways to take care of skin in the summer and year-round. Plus how caring for your skin is truly long-term self care.
This class will focus on ways you can protect your heart and control your blood pressure and cholesterol.
As you start to re-engage in the world, you may find that working out and eating right have fallen off your radar. Theresa Addison, Exercise Physiologist, will teach you ways to restart your exercise routine and fuel your body in the process.
Self and soul-care is at the heart of inclusion work. In this session we will learn about the stress that can occur when tackling diversity and inclusion and learn ways to promote restoration and resiliency.
Meditation can be hard at times, this week’s podcast helps you through this journey and it a great one to return to over and over.
According to Catherine Cheek, Licensed Psychological Associate, humans can use resilience in four key areas of our lives: physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual. She discusses the need for resilience, especially in traumatic or heightened times of stress such as dealing COVID-19, and how it can help us process and work through these situations.
You’ve probably heard the term “whole foods,” but what exactly does that mean? Join us for a discussion on what whole foods are, how to include them in your everyday meals, and how they can really help your health thrive.
Sleep is an important part of a healthy life. Learn how to reduce daytime fatigue, increase your energy, and have more restful sleep. Improving the quality of your sleep is a great first step in taking control of your health.
Can we ever achieve perfect balance between work, personal life, and all our other responsibilities? Truthfully, probably not, but finding your priorities can help make your life feel more fulfilling! Join us this week as we revisit an Empowering You with Dr. Suzanne Danhauer as she explores how to integrate work with personal life to maximize your self-care and values.
This week we talk with Anne Secrest, Certified Personal Trainer, about fitness myths and facts, ways to get active at work or at home or working from home, and the basics of getting started. Fitness don’t have to hard and miserable!
Back pain - chronic or acute- is one of the most common medical issues, and yet most of us don't know how to care for our bodies to avoid it. This week we're asking an expert, Patrick Duffy, a physical therapist within WFBH to answer our burning questions on how to keep a healthy back.
We can all use a little stress reduction! Join Shelley Owen as she takes us through class 1 of her Stop Stress class series.
Guest Speaker Meredith Trank, a popular wellness blogger based in Winston-Salem, graduate student at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, lead CycleBar instructor, exudes joy in her passion to promote positivity. Learn how you can discover your strengths and gain confidence. You will leave energized!
Join us for the first class in the BestHealth For Us Intuitive Eating class. Intuitive Eating is a non-diet approach to eating that helps you tune into your body signals and break the cycle of chronic dieting. This six-week class will go over the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating and will teach you strategies to let go of the dieting mentality and make peace with food.