July 29, 2024: You will be invigorated by our August Book of the Month by Dr. Esther Sternberg, “Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace”
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — It’s a pleasure and honor to introduce you to Esther M. Sternberg, MD, author and an expert on the mind-body connection. She currently holds the Inaugural Andrew Weil Chair for Research in Integrative Medicine. She is the Research Director for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona at Tucson. She is the Founding Director of the UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, Associate Director for Research of UArizona’s Innovations in Healthy Aging, and holds joint appointments at UArizona as Professor of Medicine and Psychology, Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and Nutritional Sciences and Wellness.
Previously: Esther served for 26 years in the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program as Senior Scientist and Section Chief of Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health. She was also Director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program, NIMH/NIH; Co-Chair of the NIH Intramural Program on Research on Women’s Health, and she chaired the Behavioral Investigators’ Review Panel Sub-Committee of the NIH Central Tenure Committee.
This month, we celebrate her latest tome — Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace.
Drawing on her pioneering research, Esther shows how to design any workspace—at home, the office, or anywhere in between—to enhance both physical and emotional wellbeing.
“Staying healthy at work has never been more top-of-mind than it is today,” she insists. “But staying healthy isn’t the same as staying well. Staying well at work isn’t just about the germs and toxins that impact how we feel physically or even make us sick; it’s also about the many aspects of the environment that affect our stress levels, mood, focus, and productivity.”
In the book, Esther believes that whether you work in a traditional office or a corner of your bedroom, healthy workplaces need not be a luxury. Well at Work reveals how to design these spaces for wellbeing across the seven domains of integrative health: stress and resilience, movement, sleep, relationships, nutrition, spirituality, nature and the air we breathe.
You’ll learn:
- How the environment you work in all day can impact your sleep at night
- Optimal lighting and noise levels for reducing stress and staying alert
- How to adjust temperature and humidity to protect against infection
- Why open-plan offices can keep you more active
- The myriad benefits of access to nature (and how to bring nature indoors)
- Office layouts that foster social interaction, but not distraction.
- Foods to enhance cognitive performance
- And more
On this eye-opening journey of discovery, you’ll meet Esther’s colleagues in science and medicine, design and architecture, and building sciences who are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And you’ll glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will help us design environments that respond to our individual needs. Above all, you’ll come away with a menu of simple steps anyone can take to be—and stay—well at work.
Order Now on Amazon.com and click here to learn more about Esther’s other mind-body connection books!
Until next Monday: May you be well at work, home, and play every day! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president, Inkandescent® Inc. Inkandescent.us
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