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Wellness Guide

Being effective in your role--whether as a researcher, student, employee, or practitioner--means knowing when to take breaks or focus on your well-being. It's important to incorporate wellness into your work and understand ways to avoid burnout. While our society's systems and structures should better support a robust work/life balance, this guide highlights resources to help you achieve some harmony now.

Resources

Student Health and Counseling (SHAC)
Located on Main Campus north of Johnson Center and across the mall from (east of) the Student Union Building. SHAC provides health and counseling services to all UNM students and fees charged are much lower than community rates.
HSC Wellness Center
A convenient North Campus location to exercise and to help you improve your health. The gym features equipment such as treadmills, ellipticals, spin bikes, free weights, recumbent bikes and more. Located on the second floor of the Domenici Center.
UNM Center for Life
The Center for Life integrates conventional and complementary medicines and practices to focus on healing through acupuncture, touch therapies (massage and acupuncture) and integratively trained physician visits.
HSC Wellness
Find wellness events on North Campus and meet the HSC Wellness team.
School of Medicine: Office of Professional Well-Being
This office is dedicated to providing initiatives for faculty and learners that improve practice efficiency, enhance a culture of compassion, and promote personal resiliency.

LGBTQ Resource Center
Provides education, advocacy, and support through our events, trainings, and student groups. The LGBTQ Resource Center was founded in 2010 by students, staff, faculty, and community members to create a space where our LGBTQQIA community can not only survive, but thrive.
African American Student Services
The mission of African American Student Services is to recruit, retain, and uplift the Black student population at UNM by providing educational discourse, leadership development, holistic wellness, and community engagement. We support students in realizing their full potential self through collaborative advocacy, intentional allyships, and the exploration of the many facets of Blackness.
Center for Native American Health
The center's primary role is to support Native students currently enrolled in health-related degree programs at the UNM HSC. In order to fulfill this role, they provide a number of resources to students.
El Centro de la Raza
El Centro de la Raza will positively impact the transition, retention, and graduation of students through an engaging environment built on academic, cultural, personal and professional activities. El Centro commits to cultivate a supportive community that helps students develop skills to fulfill their life long goals and expectations.
Vassar House
Vassar House is a confidential resource center available to the UNM community on North Campus located in a cozy converted house. Provides students at HSC with the services and programming of the Women’s Resource Center and the Accessibility Resource Center in a welcoming environment.
Women's Resource Center
The Women’s Resource Center is a place of advocacy, support, and safety for all members of the University of New Mexico and greater community. Through a feminist model of empowerment we offer educational, social, and cultural programming aimed at encouraging women’s self-determination and community engagement.

North Campus: HSSC Food Pantry
Located in the Domenici lounge, the pantry is available to students 24/7 with badge access.
Main Campus: Lobo Food Pantry
SUB Room 1093 (first floor across from the computer lab). Bring UNM ID card or valid ID and UNM ID number and a bag or box to carry groceries with. See website for hours.

Mental Health Resources
Help lines for a variety of mental health and emergency concerns.
Prescription Trails
Prescription Trails identifies walking and wheelchair routes that are both safe and accessible to patients and families to promote healthy lifestyles.
Health and Wellness Projects in New Mexico Native Communities
This document contains descriptions of 23 projects in Native communities that promote and foster health and wellness. Despite the often dire reports on Native American health, there is much going on to address the health disparities' in Native communities in New Mexico. Includes pictures and handouts.'

Greater Good Magazine
Greater Good magazine turns scientific research into stories, tips, and tools for a happier life and a more compassionate society. Through articles, videos, quizzes, and podcasts, we bridge the gap between scientific journals and people’s daily lives, particularly for parents, educators, business leaders, and health care professionals.
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine
The center's mission is to help communities around the world develop the tools they need to heal population-wide trauma.

Mindfulness Apps

Free mindfulness apps that don't require a paid subscription to access all features.

Smiling Mind
The not-for-profit app features hundreds of meditations, enough to keep you engaged without overwhelming you with choice. They are organized into structured programs like Mindful Foundations (35 sessions), Sleep (6 sessions), Digital Detox (8 sessions), and Stress Management (10 sessions), but you have the flexibility to choose where to start and to easily jump between programs.
UCLA Mindful App
Developed by the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the app features about a dozen meditations of different types in English and Spanish. You can learn to focus on your breath, your body, or sounds; work with difficult emotions; and cultivate loving-kindness in sessions ranging from 3 to 19 minutes long.
Healthy Minds
Founded by neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson (who also founded the research institute Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the app integrates neuroscience and research-based techniques with meditation training to increase overall well-being.

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