student wellness
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Kombucha craze: The importance of gut health
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Over the past few years, kombucha has exploded across the health food market. You can’t walk through a grocery store without being force-fed GT Dave’s Gingerade brew. But do any of us really know what the benefits of drinking kombucha are? Do we even know if there are benefits? Sure, it says organic on the…
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Balance for beginners: When it feels like you’re walking on a tightrope
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Having a balanced lifestyle is something that is recommended time and time again by doctors, counsellors, family, and friends to those who are struggling with their mental health or time management. While it might be generally true, I believe that encouraging people to achieve “balance” is the most arbitrary and confusing advice that one can…
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Laurier receives Mindful Campuses grant second year in a row
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For the second year in a row, Wilfrid Laurier University is making a more active commitment to supporting campus mental health initiatives for students, staff and faculty through funding provided by the Mindful Campuses grant. On June 29, Laurier received two separate, $2,000 grants: one for Laurier’s Human Resources department, and the other for the…
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Welcome to Thrive Week!
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Laurier’s bi-annual Thrive Week is taking place for the fall semester this week, beginning Oct. 7 and finishing on Oct. 11, with events and giveaways all week long to bring awareness to the resources available to students on campus struggling with their mental health. Events are happening throughout the week range from multiple different athletic…
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GSA President, Natalie Gleba, hopes to focus on student wellness throughout the upcoming school year
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Since stepping into the position of president and CEO of the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) this past May, Natalie Gleba has begun work on project planning for the 2017-18 school year. Gleba described the transition into her new role as “seamless,” attributing the ease to her previous five years of experience with the GSA and…
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