You know you cant be everything to everyone, but the people who matter most to you seem to be getting the least amount of your time and energy. You want to be successful professionally and still have time for your personal interests, but you want to be a cherished part of your family and aggressive in your career. Your choices seem to be in direct conflict with each other. This course helps you understand how roles give order to what you want to do and to be, and how balance helps you enjoy quality and success in all facets of living.

Building Your Resilience Against Stress

Stress is a part of day-to-day living of every individual. The reasons for the stress differ from person to person and the severity of the stress is often personal as well as situational. In addition, something that we're stressed about today may not bother us at all tomorrow and vice versa.

Contrary to popular belief, stress isn't always harmful. An optimum amount of stress can act as an energizer and propel us to apply effort and complete projects, create new solutions to existing progress or learn better time management skills. But a high level of stress can be a serious threat to the personality traits of the individual and can cause psychological, physiological and social problems. "Building Resilience: Your Best Weapon Against Stress" will help you understand stress, its symptoms, its causes, your resilience to it. The course will provide you with practical tips and techniques for coping with stress. The goal is to have you learn ways to control your feelings of stress rather then having them control you.

Diabetes is a common and serious health condition. Diabetes can be controlled, but the problem is that many people do not know that they have diabetes. With proper care, people with diabetes can enjoy good health now and in the future. This course will help you to gain more awareness about diabetes. It will also help you to develop a healthy lifestyle and outlook that focuses on opportunities to manage diabetes not the limitations of diabetes.

The Exercise is Medicine initiative by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Association's vision is 'to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of a global disease prevention and treatment medical paradigm.' Physical activity is important to be considered as a vital sign by everyone, young to old. The presentation proposes merging fitness with your healthcare and will help encourage a broader awareness by showing evidence that exercise is indeed the most effective medicine in preventing and treating many chronic diseases we face as a society.

Spending money is as American as apple pie. The problem? The prices of apples are rising! What do we do in difficult economic times like today? How can we make better choices for a more secure economic future? We can begin learning and implementing smart spending habits. In this class, participants learn the importance of financial goal setting and using a spending plan for economic stability today and tomorrow.

Topics include:

• Setting financial goals
• Developing a spending plan
• Identifying income
• Tracking your spending
• Identifying types of expenses
• Setting goals for saving
• Making your spending plan
• Tips for managing money

Managing Diabetes with Physical Activity and Diet

(It is recommended that participants complete Diabetes Awareness prior to this workshop). Managing to be physically active and eating healthy is difficult. Add the complexities of managing diabetes to the mix and it can be overwhelming. This program takes a more in depth look at how and why physical activity and healthy eating are even more important to someone with diabetes. Strategies will be given to assist participants in safely increasing physical activity and making dietary choices that will positively impact their health and wellbeing.

Participants will be able to:

• Relate the goal of physical activity
• Describe three impact areas of physical activity
• List important strategies for safe physical activity
• Explain and differentiate ¿Carbohydrate Counting¿ and ¿Glycemic Index¿
• Define how members of their diabetes management team can assist them

Meditation is a proven alternative therapy. It is listed under the mind-body medicines. More and more doctors are prescribing meditation to lower blood pressure, improve exercise performance, help people with asthma breathe easier, relieve insomnia and generally relax the everyday stresses of life.

This workshop will take you through the benefits of meditation, especially how it relates to stress and stress management along with a meditative practice.

Mental Health First Aid is a groundbreaking public education program that helps the public identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Mental Health First Aid USA is managed, operated, and disseminated by three national authorities ¿ the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health.

Mental Health First Aid is offered in the form of an interactive 12-hour course that presents an overview of mental illness and substance use disorders in the U.S. and introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews common treatments. Those who take the 12-hour course to certify as Mental Health First Aiders learn a 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources and knowledge to help an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

This lecture will feature simple, easy to do nutrition tips guaranteed to improve your diet. The information will provide ideas and suggestions to help control your weight and reduce health risks. Join us for an abundance of simple and basic information that will make improving your diet an easily obtainable goal.