Why Leaders Need Self-Care
A greater need for focusing on effective employee wellbeing, as part of Corporate Wellness, has undeniably grown now. However, there is an equally strong and urgent case for business leaders to focus on their self-care, too, building on their Wellness quotient along with those of the people who work for them. Here […]
Wellness Models & Role Of New-Age Leadership
Along with all else, COVID-19 has changed the hues and challenges of leadership substantially and perceptibly. The concept of a VUCA world exists since way before the pandemic hit, but making sense of recent, radical and unprecedented disruptions across levels – individual, enterprise and world – is going to need and forcibly […]
Women Leaders, Work & Wellness
“You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young These words made me ponder. It is an obvious statement, yet not so obviously acknowledged, including by women themselves. While many societies are still struggling with embracing true gender equality, diversity, and […]
Social Media & Decision-Making For Wellness
Social Media is one of the most potent and powerful media connecting people across geographical boundaries and timelines. It allows us to consume colossal amounts of information on just about any conceivable topic in multiple formats. Entertainment, education, news, arts & sciences… information pertaining to any field is available 24/7. […]
Stress Me Not
Stress is a silent killer. No one is immune. There is a strong need to recognize and manage stress. How often has your doctor asked about your stress levels? Irrespective of the illness or the system of treatment (allopathy, homeopathy, ayurveda or naturopathy), the doctor is eager to know this. […]
Could Emotional Patterns Make Us More Susceptible To Cancer?
There is a lot of research, clinical data and statistics related to cancer – types, causes, and treatments – available to anyone interested in looking them up. There are, of course, the usual suspects /causes of cancer (more on that later). But there could be a case made out to […]
Do most Corporate Wellness Programs actually work?
Corporate wellness programs are fast becoming part of an organization’s stated practice to keep employees at their optimum performance levels. Designed correctly, they can help in another critical area – to reduce costs incurred due to absences, low productivity, attrition etc. But are these programs really effective in giving results that […]
That Gut Feeling
Let’s face it. At one point or the other in our lives the topic of food and what it does to our body has surfaced. It may have been your mother valiantly admonishing you to select your greens over the in-your-face junk, that energetic friend with a fab body dishing […]
Natural resource
An underutilised body is the root cause of so many of our physical- and mental-health problems, but really, all we have to do is moveMy mother lay completely paralysed for several years, a beautiful woman with a sharp mind, trapped in an immobile body. The crushing ferocity of MS (multiple […]
Let’s Press ‘Play’
“You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them, […]