Embedding Integrative Health Considerations into Your Working Environment

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The book explores the impact of the built environment on stress, sleep, movement, and overall health. It emphasizes the importance of designing spaces to optimize these aspects of well-being. The researchers share their journey of uncovering these connections and provide guidance on incorporating all seven domains of integrative health into different work environments. By engaging in sleep resilience, environment, movement, relationships, spirituality, and nutrition, individuals can enhance their resilience and overall health.

Dr. Esther Sternberg reveals how to enhance your office environment to improve your health and boost performance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How your workspace affects your wellbeing.

2) How your surroundings impact your sleep.

3) Tiny changes in lighting and sound that immediately improve your environment.

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— ABOUT ESTHER —

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona and has been internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries on the mind-body-stress interaction in healing and the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness. She’s advised the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, the Vatican, and more, and has been featured on national stages, including CBS’ 60 Minutes, SXSW, NPR, ABC News, and more.

• Book: Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

• Book: The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

• Book: Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace

• Website: https://esthersternberg.com/

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “The Basque Sheepherder and the Shepherd Psalm by James K. Wallace

• Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Study: Discovery of associative patterns between workplace sound level and physiological wellbeing using wearable devices and empirical Bayes modeling

• Podcaster: Andrew Huberman

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