Health & Wellness Monthly Newsletter
Graduate Student Edition
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February 2022 | Office of Health and Wellness Promotion
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Events & Opportunities
- Body Positive Brandeis Groups
- BCC Therapy Groups for Spring Semester
- Getting Your Booster Shot at Brandeis
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Featured Topics
- Coping with COVID-19
- February Break Travel Guidance
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Body Positive Brandeis Groups
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Body Positive Brandeis is a space for support, healing and activism around body liberation. Body Positive Brandeis is for people of ALL identities and backgrounds, including men, LGBTQIAA students, BIPOC students. This program welcomes undergraduate and graduate students. Come as you are!
Join a community where you will be empowered, loved, heard, supported, and so much more!
- Improve your relationship with your body, exercise, and food
- Learn to dismantle systems of oppression based on size and appearance
- Support friends struggling with body image
- Help shift campus culture to embrace body diversity and respect
This spring we are offering three groups, meeting virtually and in person. Groups are led by trained student facilitators and meet over five weeks.
- Tuesdays from 6-7 PM ET
- Wednesdays from 7-8 PM ET
- Thursdays from 12-1 PM ET
Group sign ups close February 13, 2022.
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Not able to participate in a group?
Body Positive Brandeis offers free, self-directed online trainings:
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Body Positive Health (1 hour) offers interactive exercises to deepen your understanding of body image and health
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Body Positive Fundamentals (2 hours) offers interactive exercises to improve your relationship with your body
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BCC Therapy Groups for the Spring Semester
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BCC is offering therapy groups for the spring semester, including:
- The Anxiety Society
- At This Point in the Pandemic: Drop-In Support
- Bereavement Group
- Finding an Affirming Therapist: A Drop-In Space for QTBIPOC Students
- Climate Concerns: Eco-Anxiety Support Group
- Break Up Group
- Brandeis Sidelines: A Community for Athletes Overcoming Injury
- Art and Journaling Group
- Surviving White Spaces: An Affinity Support Space for BIPOC Students
- and more!
If you have particular ideas for a group you would like to see offered, please email Hadassah Margolis.
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Getting Your Booster Shot at Brandeis
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Collaborating with our pharmacy partner VaxinateRx, vaccination appointments will be available to Brandeis students, faculty and staff who are 18 years of age or over.
- February 1, 10 AM to 4 PM
- February 9, 10 AM to 4 PM
- February 16, 10 AM to 4 PM
Please note: Due to the anticipated high-volume of appointments, walk-ins will not be accepted at the clinics. Be sure to check your spam folder in case you don’t receive the confirmation email for your appointment from VaxinateRx.
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Looking for another option?
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There's no getting around it. We are all tired of dealing with COVID-19. If your mental health and wellbeing is suboptimal or at an all-time low, you are not alone.
When times are hard, it's important to practice self-care and community care.
Self-care is when a person takes space and uses resources to meet their basic needs and care for themself. Self-care resources include:
Practicing community care means asking for help when you are struggling. It also means offering help when you are able, which can include:
- community service, volunteering,
- checking in on your friends and neighbors,
- acts of kindness,
- caring for the sick,
- bystander intervention,
- and more.
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Ways to get help:
Ways to help a friend:
- Check in to see how they're doing (how they're really doing)
- Remind them that you care
- Ask them what you can do to help
- Submit an I Care form
Ways to help your communities:
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February Break Travel Guidance
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The omicron surge and cold, winter weather has left us all with cabin fever. February break is on the horizon, and undoubtedly many of our community members are hoping to travel. Whether it's going home to see family and friends, or taking off for a destination vacation, it's important to keep safety guidance in mind when making plans.
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Stay flexible and be ready to change your plans. It's not a bad idea to get travel insurance for last minute cancellations!
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Get tested before and after your trip. Do not travel if you have been exposed to COVID-19, you are sick, or if you test positive for COVID-19.
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Do not travel until you are fully vaccinated (and boosted!) If you are not fully vaccinated and must travel, get tested both before and after your trip.
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Carry proof of your vaccination with you.
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Wear a mask over your nose and mouth in indoor areas of public transportation (including airplanes) and indoors in transportation hubs (including airports).
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Health and Wellness Resources
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Brandeis Health Center
All appointments must be scheduled by calling
781-736-3677.
After hours consultation:
781-239-1948
Monday - Friday:
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Closed Tuesdays from 9-10 am
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Brandeis Counseling Center
All appointments must be conducted virtually.
Please call during regular business hours for routine matters, and after 5 p.m. for urgent concerns.
To reach the BCC call
781-736-3730.
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Health & Wellness Promotion
781-736-3678
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