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Dr. Alexandra Crosswell on How Stress Affects Our Well-Being

“The Assistant Professor and stress expert explains the science behind feeling stress, and offers tips on how to cope when we feel overwhelmed.”

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Mindfulness and Stress: A Tale of Mutual Consequences

“Stress can affect our ability to stay present. Mindfulness can help with stress.”

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Is All Stress Created Equal? Dr. Alexandra Crosswell is Working to Help Researchers Better Define Stress

“Is all stress created equal? The concept and experience of stress is multifaceted and varies depending on the context, making it particularly challenging for scientists to study. Over the past decade, AME researchers have conducted a variety of studies that aim to understand how psychological stress can “get underneath the skin” and affect health of individuals, their relationships, families and communities.”

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Toxic & Positive Stress: How to Maintain a Healthy Balance

“Decades of research demonstrates that some forms of stress are toxic for our brains and bodies, while other forms can actually enhance performance. What is the difference between toxic and positive stress, and can we turn one form into another? Dr. Crosswell will discuss the science of stress, including evidence-based practices to build and maintain stress resilience.”

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Feeling stressed? Overloaded? There's an app to help with that.

“High levels of work stress have major implications on a person’s daily life leading to job strain, which is associated with worse mental and physical health. To address stress and job strain among professionals at go-go workplaces, researchers examined the effects of a mindfulness meditation program using the Headspace app on smartphones.”

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View Dr. Crosswell’s entry in the Fall 2018 Newsletter here

“Improve Psychological Well-Being at Work with a Mindfulness App”

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“A 12-week restorative Iyengar yoga sequence reduced inflammation related gene-expression in breast cancer survivors with chronic fatigue.”

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“As crisis mounts, researcher explains what lasting stress does to our bodies and biology”

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“Experts explain how pollution and stress besiege poor and minority communities”

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“Employee stress tracking with technology: work wellbeing win?”

“Relieving worker stress helps people and business. Now, companies are looking to new tech to help measure, understand and remove strain on employees.”

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“Alexandra Crosswell on Sustaining Wellbeing in Times of Stress”

“Explorer of the well-lived life. Psychological Scientist (@ucsf). Interfaith Spiritual Director. Feminine leadership advocate. Mothering 3 boys. “

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