Wellness Resources

• Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
• Stress, Anxiety, and COVID-19 - Dr. Julianne Zweifel on the Women's Healthcast

• AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps
• Keeping Kids Active at Home (UW-Madison School of Education)
• Nutritional Strategies to Mitigate Fatigue (Stanford Medicine - WellMD Center)
• Wisconsin State Parks

Try these scripts for a mindful minute to open meetings! 

• 21 1-Minute Mindfulness Exercises
• Aura
• Calm
• The Calm Monkey - mindfulness for the workplace
• Centering Exercise: 12 Breaths to Focus on the Present
• Doing What Matters in Times of Stress - World Health Organization
• Headspace 
• Healthy Minds Program - from the UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds
• Insight Timer
• Mindfulness - Cultivating the Skills to Care for Ourselves in Challenging Times
• Resilient Wisconsin - resources from the State of Wisconsin
• Ten Percent Happier: Mindfulness Meditation App

• UW Health Wellness Options at Work
• Well-being at UW
• UW-Madison Employee Assistance Office - resources for UW-Madison faculty, staff, partners and families
  • Responding to Stress series (Employee Assistance Office)

• 8 skills to boost mood and reduce anxiety - National Public Radio
• 6 things people do around the world to slow down - ideas.TED.com
• A leading mindfulness teacher shares insights to counter tech addiction and isolation - National Public Radio
  
• Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Journal of the American Medical Association
• Staying Well - Society of Gynecologic Oncology (video)
• Stop Trying to Be Productive - New York Times
• That Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief - Harvard Business Review
• Coronavirus and Mental Health: Taking Care of Ourselves During Infectious Disease Outbreaks - American Psychiatric Association
• Taking care of your mental health in the face of uncertainty - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

• Battling Burnout: A Conversation on Physician Wellness - David Kushner, MD's podcast interview with the Women's Healthcast about what contributes to physician burnout, how it affects patients, and what medical systems are doing to help. 
• Beyond Burnout: From Denial to Acceptance to Physician Wellness Solutions (video) - David Kushner, MD, presents a UW Ob-Gyn Grand Rounds lecture on burnout and wellness. 

• National Academy of Medicine - Clinician Resilience and Wellbeing
• American Medical Association - Steps Forward

Ob-Gyn After-Hours Email Guidelines (PDF)