Wellness
Self-Care Resources During This Extraordinary Time
Self-Care Tools Available to Anyone
Learn to Make Super Easy Supercharged Salad With Chef Jenny
Plus Numerous Cooking Hacks That Save You So Much Labor
Chef Jenny of Kaiser Permanente shows you how to make a delicious greens-and-grains salad with delicata squash and other variations. Plus, she shows you a bunch of techniques that make cooking super easy.
Amazing Intro to Qi-Gong With David Wei
It’s Super Easy and You’ll Feel Super Great
Qi-Gong (pronounced Chi Gong) is an easy-to-do, ancient movement art that promotes wellness in your body and wellbeing in your life.
ACERA Wellness Wall of Fame
ACERA Retirees: attend a 2019 ACERA retiree wellness event and get a Wellness Passport. Get at least 3 stamps in your passport by attending at least 3 events, and achieve recognition on the Wellness Wall of Fame right here!
ACERA 2019 Retiree Wellness Events
5 Events to Help You Be Well
Wellness Walks, Open Houses, and More.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Wrap Up, Plus What’s Next?
We’ve reached the end of Maintain Don’t Gain. We hope you found that whether or not you achieved your goals, the program helped you try out new techniques to add to your health and wellness repertoire.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Developing a Sense of Purpose in the New Year
Week 7: Home Stretch
You’re in the home stretch! You just need to find a path through leftover holiday sweets and new year’s revelries.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Winter Has Come
Week 6
For those who celebrate it, Christmas is upon us! Whether you celebrate it or not, holiday foods and sweets surround us, and it’s hard not to overindulge. Our goal is to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays.
Maintain Don’t Gain: We’re Almost Through It
Week 5
We’re over the halfway point! The holiday season is upon us, and we’re excited to continue to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays, without having to totally give up all the things that make the holidays special to you.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Now is a Great Time to Start or Refresh Your Program
Week 4
We’re excited to continue to help you maintain your current weight over the holidays, without having to totally give up all the things that make the holidays special to you.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Have a Plan Yet?
Week 3
Last week, we showed you how the average American adult gains 1 to 5 pounds during the holidays that they never lose, and that half of adult weight gain can be attributed to the holidays.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Your Holiday Action Plan
Week 2: Your Tools to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain
As we told you last week, most Americans gain an average of about 1 pound during the holidays. While this may not seem like a lot, they usually don’t ever lose it.
Maintain Don’t Gain: Here’s to Healthier Holidays
Week 1: This holiday season, take charge of your weight
Most Americans gain an average of about 1 pound during the holidays. While this may not seem like a lot, they usually don’t lose it. The average American adult gains 2 pounds per year, so half of adult weight gain can be attributed to the holidays!
Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life With Neurogenesis
Bonus Materials From ACERA's Health Fair
Here are some bonus material from the two really excellent seminar presenters we had at ACERA’s Annual Health and Wellness Fair 2018.
Finding Balance: Rate your progress
Week 8: Looking ahead to a less stressed life
Over the past 8 weeks, you’ve seen how being aware of your response to stress can help you manage it.
Finding Balance: Exercise and stress
Week 7: Move more to stress less
Even in small doses, physical activity is a natural stress reliever – 62% of adults who use exercise to manage stress say it’s extremely effective.
Finding Balance: Nutrition and stress
Week 6: The food-mood connection
When it comes to stress, what you eat – or don’t eat – matters.
Finding Balance: Money and stress
Week 5: Examining your expenses
If you have financial concerns, you have plenty of company – money is one of the leading sources of stress in America.*
Finding Balance: Relaxation and stress
Week 4: Make time to unwind
When you’re stressed, the last thing you want to hear is that you should try to relax. But it’s actually very good advice.
Finding Balance: Making an action plan
Week 3: How you respond to stress is up to you
Last week, we started looking at specific stressful events and examining how you react to them. This week, you’ll take a closer look at how you cope to see if there’s anything you’d like to do differently.