When Stephany Coakley, Ph.D., was named the senior athletic director for Mental Health, Wellness and Performance at Temple University in 2017, she had one goal in mind for her student-athletes: to...
Student tries out goat yoga for the first time
As the goat climbed onto my back in the middle of a downward dog yoga pose, I remembered what the instructor, Donna Pastorok, told us before the class started:...
About this time last year, I downloaded the app Headspace because I was interested in incorporating meditation into my daily routine. Headspace is an app for meditation and sleep. It’s recent popularity...
I was half asleep in my bed, refusing to look at the time because I knew it was only a matter of moments before I had to get up. This is always an unpleasant transition period in the morning, something...
Face masks have been around since the 19th century and have been growing more popular since.
In Ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago, creating face masks made up of honey and milk was incorporated into one’s...
A narrative on dealing with the disease
Since I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2010, my life has always revolved around who I was as a diabetic rather than as a human. Diabetes is a chronic, life-altering...
A conversation about living with ADHD
While I’m overjoyed that the conversation about mental illness is one that we’re having in society and on campus, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
The term “load management” refers to healthy players voluntarily sitting out games for rest purposes. People have really started debating the intricacies of load management following the National...
About 27 e-cigarettes were dropped off at tables for the “Vape Escape” event set up outside Campion Student Center and the Post Learning Commons (PLC) and Francis A. Drexel Library on Oct. 30 as part...
Students are more likely to develop an eating disorder in college because of the stressors and pressures that appear in college, according to Gregg Nicholls, Ph.D., director of Counseling and Psychological...
The Student Health Center sent a campus-wide email on Aug. 31 that drew attention to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warning about pulmonary diseases associated with...
Understanding the symptoms of SAD
As the weather turns cold and the sky grays, John McCall ’20 doesn’t deny the trouble he faces trying to get out of bed in the morning.
“With it getting darker...
