Stress Awareness Month

Our mission is to provide inclusive, accessible, and comprehensive services to Emerson students. We strive to empower students to actively engage in their well-being and healthy decision-making. In providing the community with tools, we hope to create a culture that supports and promotes wellness within the Emerson community.

Visit the Emerson Wellness Center's Hub for resources, articles and assistance.

In this course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.

In this article, Lisa Drayer discusses 12 ways to improve your health and wellness in regard to anxiety and stress.

Neurobiology has proven to us that we must "come to our senses" when it comes to restoring mind and body after trauma. Expressive arts therapy is a somatically-based approach that addresses not only through brain-wise methods, but also the body's sensory experience of trauma in ways that no other methods can.