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Lifestyle Medicine Workshop: Stress Reduction

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Health & Wellness

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Reducing stress is the key to emotional health. In this workshop, lifestyle medicine specialist Dr. Raquel Harrison will help you reframe stress to understand when it is beneficial and when it becomes distress along with strategies to reorient to a healthy level. 

Here is the workshop schedule:

  • 7/26  Stress Reduction 
  • 8/23 Social Connectedness 
  • 9/27 Avoidance of Risky Behavior

Dr. Raquel Harrison (MD, FACEP, dipABLM) is dual board certified in emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine.  With over 12 years of experience working in large urban emergency departments, she has been heavily impacted by how often lifestyle choices result in visits to the hospital. Leveraging years working in education as an assistant professor and assistant residency director at Yale School of Medicine, she now directs her passion for teaching towards educating others about lifestyle medicine and it’s critical role in preventing and reversing diseases that commonly lead to emergency visits and hospitalization.  She has a deep desire to help people understand how to become the best versions of themselves by focusing on both physical and mental health and their complex interconnection.