From Degraded Soil to Your Dinner Plate. What We Can Do.
Fungi play a crucial role in our natural ecosystem. Environmental scientist Danielle Stevenson discusses the great impact fungi can have on...
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UC Wellbeing Channel (Video)
In partnership with faculty at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, UCTV presents this curated collection of videos on integrative medicine, featuring evidence-based research showing how a w...
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20 of 200 episodesBe Your Own Best Friend: Self-Compassion for Stress Reduction
Mindful self-compassion has been widely researched in recent years and found effective in a wide variety of mental health and wellbeing vari...
Feeling Extreme Emotions? Try a Survival TIPP
The COVID-19 pandemic has put all of us in crisis mode. So how can you manage feelings of anxiety and stress? Esme Shaller, Ph.D., associate...
Deep Breathing - A Fundamental Part of Stress Reduction
Breathing techniques can help us relax and reduce stress and anxiety. Simply slowing our breathing rate can reduce arousal in our autonomic...
Mindful Breathing for Anxiety
Regular practice of mindfulness meditations has been widely researched and has been shown to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression and st...
Integrative Pain Medicine: Paradigms and Possibilities
Pain is on the rise in adults. Heidi Reetz, MD, examines recent pain studies and what their impact are on the prevalence and trajectories of...
The Magic of Mushrooms: Revolutionizing the Future of Food Farming and Medicine - Future Thought Leaders Series Presented by the Berry Good Food Foundation
Mushrooms play a crucial role in our natural ecosystem, they have been used medicinally by indigenous cultures for centuries, their nutritio...
Mandala Therapy: Art of Centering the Self
Creating mandalas is seen as an act of meditation that is a therapeutic modality with the potential to contribute to wellness and self care....
Cultivating Emotion Awareness and Fierce Compassion
Eve Ekman is a contemplative social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. She discusses how to d...
Integrative Therapy to Manage Anxiety and Reduce Stress
Dave Berger, somatic psychotherapist, physical therapist and bodyworker, provides practical suggestions for managing stress and anxiety. Whe...
Free Your Wandering Mind with Mindfulness
Dr. Stuart Eisendrath, UCSF Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry, explores the psychology behind both anxiety and depression as well as how mind...
How to Deal with Your Unruly Mind: Meditation
Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, which teaches participants how to navigate and integrate th...
Got Stress? The Science of Measuring and Improving Meditation
Meditation practices have been adapted to treat mental and physical health conditions. It is not a cure-all, and different people respond in...
High Hopes: Hemp - Navigating the Crossroads - Future Thought Leaders Series Presented by the Berry Good Food Foundation
As an agricultural crop, hemp is the strongest natural fiber in the world and can produce crucial resources such as food, rope, clothing, pa...
Spice it Up: A New Way to Use Curcumin - Global Challenge to Prevent Breast Cancer
Michele Atlan has been a breast cancer survivor since 2013 and serves as the vice-president of the Breast Cancer Care & Research Fund (BCCRF...
Exploring Physical and Emotional Dimensions of Pain and Loss: The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
Selena Chan, DO, takes you through a brief history of treating mental health from the stone age to today. She then looks at psychiatry today...
Herbal Allies for Emotional Distress
We have come so far in understanding the brain, yet we are often perplexed by our emotions. Geronima Cortese gives an brief history of herba...
Listening to One's Deepest Self: Opening to Transpersonal Dimensions of Healing
David Lukoff, PhD, explores transpersonal psychology, the study of human growth and development from a perspective of spirituality and the i...
The Alchemy of Healing: The Pathways to Emotional and Spiritual Flourishing in the Classical Chinese Medicine Tradition
Dr. James Duffy, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, explores classical Daoist Chinese medicine. This traditional knowledge spans cent...
A Shamanic Journey: MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy to Guide Recovery from Trauma
MDMA is known for increasing feelings of trust and compassion towards others, which could make an ideal adjunct to psychotherapy for PTSD. D...