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Pursuing wellness is a proactive, rather than reactionary, approach to creating a healthy life. It is a continual process of learning, growing, and reflecting in order to be happy, healthy and fulfilled.

Emotional Well-Being

Students taking online courses can overlook the importance of health and wellness. To support students and ensure that they have a positive educational experience, the UCI Counseling Center and the UCI Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion offers a number of services. These services address the mental and physical well being of all students. Below are just a few of the resources available to all UCI students.

  • Emotional Well-being Consultations: 30-60 minute one-on-one confidential consultations.
  • TAO (Therapy Assisted Online): a self help online library of behavioral health resources.
  • Nutrition Consultations: 60 minute one-one-one confidential consultations.
  • Health & Wellness Workshops: request a workshop on a specific health and wellness topic.
  • Other Services. Be sure to familiarize yourself with all the counseling and wellness services UCI provides.

*Students will be informed by their program office on upcoming special events, including wellness events.

More Wellness Resources

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Practicing Emotional First Aid

We’ll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.

Online Tools and Assessments

There are a number of assessments and apps that can help you with exercise, nutrition, sleep, meditation and much more. Check out the UCI Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion’s information on these tools.

Video Source: Winch, G. (2015, February 16). How to Practice emotional first aid. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/F2hc2FLOdhI
Video Source: Emotion, Stress, and Health: Crash Course Psychology #26. (2014, August 11). Retrieved from https://youtu.be/4KbSRXP0wik

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