Adjusting Expectations
In conversations that I have been having personally and professionally, I sense a growing understanding that many of the changes we made...
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Summer 2021 Issue
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Shelly Gill Murray
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
How Practicing Gratitude Can Help You Heal
Swept away like breadcrumbs in the moment, I decided to gather up the bits and pieces of my life to see if the trail ended in gratitude....
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Aegor Ray
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Managing Anxiety and Difficult Emotions
In our fact-paced lives, the mind-body connection – the complex relationship between a person’s physical body and internal state – is not...
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Kevin Coss
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5 min
Seeking Out Social Connections
A powerful form of self-care can boost wellbeing and manage chronic pain Phoning a sibling, meeting a friend for dinner, doing volunteer...
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Katie Dohman
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Von Voyage Center Director of Graduate Studies Dr. Susan O'Conner-Von Retires
Susan O'Conner-Von is many things: a PhD, an RN, a professor and, for the last seven years, the Center’s Director of Graduate Studies. By...
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Heidi Wachter
- Jul 29, 2021
- 3 min
Center Provides Parkinson's Disease Patients New Resources to Take Charge of Their Health& Wellbeing
NEARLY A MILLION PEOPLE are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States. That’s greater than the number of people...
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Shelly Gill Murray
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5 min
How Loving Kindness Meditation Can Help Your Mind Breathe
Heading to my cabin in Wisconsin, I passed the Franconia Sculpture Park in an unmown hay field adjacent to County Road 8. Among its giant...
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Jacques Lerouge
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
Meet Jamie Hazelton, NBC-HWC
Raised in Bemidji, Minnesota, Jamie Hazelton (she/her) is a frequent camper, a role model, a gay transgender woman, and a Health Coach....
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Andy Steiner
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
When Life Gives You Lemons: Bakken Center Webinars are a Bright Spot in a Dreary World
Before the global pandemic forced the world into lockdown, staff at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing created a series...
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Aegor Ray
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
Center Presents Wellbeing Series for Planetary Health
Talking about planetary health, suggests Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni, is no longer enough. An internal medicine hospitalist at the University...
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Dianne Lev
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
25 Years of the Center
In the Fall 2019 issue of Mandala, to honor the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing’s 25th Anniversary, I thought it would...
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Jacques Lerouge
- Jan 15, 2021
- 6 min
Impacting Student Wellbeing
Bakken Center Offers Support to Students During Covid-19 Pandemic Since March 2020, students at the University of Minnesota have been...
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Asa Olson
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Removing Barriers from the Digital Classroom
It’s more important than ever that the Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing makes its courses accessible in these unprecedented...
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Mary Jo Kreitzer
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
Could Anyone Have Imagined?
Like many, I am very eager to put 2020, which was a year like no other, to rest. I am not sure that anyone could have anticipated the...
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Rachel Brougham
- Jan 14, 2021
- 6 min
Legacies of Learning and Development
Anyone at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing will share that it’s hard to imagine the Center...
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Kevin Coss
- Jan 14, 2021
- 5 min
Diversity in Research: Better for Communities, Better for Science
About three years ago, Roni Evans and her research team were in the middle of a pilot study exploring how mindfulness might encourage...
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Katie Ousley
- Jan 14, 2021
- 5 min
Finding Strength in Survivorship
At 16 years old, Jasmine Bennetsen got a life-changing diagnosis: Fanconi anemia (FA), a rare disease that prevents her cells from...
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Heidi Wachter
- Jan 14, 2021
- 5 min
Perspectives on Increasing Inclusion in Health Coaching
“Good health begins at home.” That’s more than just an old adage. Throughout the past three decades, public health data has shown that...
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Craig Blacklock
- Jan 14, 2021
- 4 min
From Acorns to White-Tails: Finding Healing Solace in the Forest
The mixed election results and pandemic have left me, like many others, dealing with melancholy and depression–struggling to keep disgust...
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Katie Dohman
- Jan 13, 2021
- 6 min
Course Correct: New Integrative Nursing Specialization Launches on Coursera
The Integrative Nursing specialization covers how to return nurses to their point of expertise – caring and healing.
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