{"id":1502,"date":"2019-06-21T11:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/?page_id=1502"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:05:44","slug":"wellness-for-postdocs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/current-postdocs\/wellness-for-postdocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness for Postdocs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/occupational-environmental\/employee-assistance-program\/\">Employee Assistance Program<\/a> &#8211; free, confidential service available to UConn Health postdocs and their immediate family members to deal with personal or work-related concerns such as stress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse issues or other mental health related concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/wellness-center\/\">Wellness Center<\/a> &#8211; Postdocs are eligible to join the UConn Health gym for a reduced rate of $5 a month!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/current-postdocs\/postdoc-assoc\/\">UConn Health\/Jackson Labs Postdoctoral Association<\/a> &#8211; Interact with your local postdoc community for work-related and social events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ombuds.uconn.edu\/\">UConn Ombuds Office<\/a> &#8211; The ombuds is a confidential, neutral resource that can assist UConn Health postdocs with workplace-related conflicts and concerns to help you evaluate the situation, understand university rules and regulations and formulate a plan to address the concern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/current\/gso\/guide\/what-to-do\/\">Things to Do Around Here<\/a> &#8211; Get your mind off your research for a little while and go enjoy the world right around you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephdepression.com\/\">The PhDepression<\/a> &#8211; A national website for graduate students and postdocs to discuss mental health with each other as well as find tips, tools and services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/healthy-lifestyle\/consumer-health\/in-depth\/mindfulness-exercises\/art-20046356\" class=\"broken_link\">Mindfulness Exercises<\/a> &#8211; A brief introduction to mindfulness and some simple exercises<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All postdocs are also welcome at anytime to reach out to Dr. Heinen to discuss any concerns or problems. Email at <a href=\"mailto:cheinen@uchc.edu\">cheinen@uchc.edu<\/a> or call at x8859.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Assistance Program &#8211; free, confidential service available to UConn Health postdocs and their immediate family members to deal with personal or work-related concerns such as stress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse issues or other mental health related concerns. &nbsp; Wellness Center &#8211; Postdocs are eligible to join the UConn Health gym for a reduced rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 09:10:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1502\/revisions\/1514"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}