Health & Wellness

Game Plan

jbloustein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:04:40 -0600

I’m a football player, a quarterback with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. I’m used to pain. You get hit, you get up and keep going.

But I’d never felt anything like the pain that ripped through my gut that January afternoon in 2004. One minute I was sitting in my lounge chair at home watching TV, the next minute I was doubled over. Not even Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis hitting me from the blind side hurt that bad. For a few minutes, I could hardly breathe. Finally the pain went away.

Positively Contagious

mcherkezian — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:18:25 -0600

The Swine Flu is not the only thing you catch at work. Turns out you are just as likely to catch someone’s bad mood and negative attitude.

Yes, the latest research demonstrates what we’ve all known to be true, that emotions are contagious. Researchers call them emotional contagions and they impact our work environments, productivity, teamwork, service and performance in significant and profound ways.

Richard's Rwanda helps disadvantaged girls

batch — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:05:09 -0600

When Jessica Markowitz's family hosted Richard Kananga from Rwanda during his trip to Seattle in 2006, she was amazed to discover there were still many girls who were financially unable to attend school in his native country.

Markowitz was determined to make a difference, and at 11 years old she established the organization Richard's Rwanada to help send Rwandan girls to school, as CNN recently reported.