Listen as Dr. Jason Yu, shares his insights about how speaking with a therapist can help provide self-understanding and direction to dealing with everyday life situations.

Guest: Jason Yu, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor of the McGovern Medical School, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Listen as Patricia and Jennifer share their insights about how our Benefits are affected by certain life events. They offer tips on how to avoid pitfalls with our Benefits.

Topics:

Who needs Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance?

What is the Family Leave Pool?

What happens to my Benefits if I need to take Leave Without Pay?

Guests:

Patricia Hinojosa, Executive Director, Payroll & Benefits

Jennifer Figueroa, Assistance Director, Benefits

Listen as Jasmine Holmes, licensed professional counselor and UTHealth Faculty Assistance Specialist, shares her insights about the value of social connections on well-being. Jasmine also talks about the role flexibility and expectations play in positive outcomes during holiday gatherings.

Listen as Dolores Woods shares her insights on putting our relationships with people first, as a way to manage our nutrition during the holiday season. The podcast also includes a discussion about comfort food, tips for recipe substitutions, and choices related to desserts and beverages.

Dolores is a Nutritionist Supervisor for the Nourish Program at the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at UTHealth Houston's School of Public Health.

Listen as Claire Goss shares insights on the unprecedented challenges facing professional parents today as they manage the interface between work and life. Claire offers tangible tools for dealing with the stress and guilt associated with being a working parent. She discusses concepts such as "bringing the weather" to your household and "firing yourself" by delegating, redirecting, and deploying resources.

Claire is the Senior Manager for Parenting Education and Resources at Bright Horizons, a service that provides family caregiver solutions for families of UTHealth Houston. This benefit includes 10 days of emergency/backup child or adult-dependent care provided by Bright Horizons and the employee pays a nominal copay, while UTHealth Houston subsidizes part of the cost of those 10 days. Our contract with Bright Horizons also offers a network of family solutions on a self-pay basis and the subscription to this network is already paid on behalf of employees through the UTHealth Houston contract with Bright Horizons.

Listen as Dr. Higgins shares his insights on ways to work aerobic activity into everyday life. He also shares tips and cautions for training for the Houston Half Marathon/10K race, sponsored by UTHealth Houston on Oct 29.

Dr. Higgins is Professor of Medicine at The McGovern Medical School and the Senior Cardiologist at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, among many other accomplishments.

We welcome Delphi Medina as she helps us dissect concepts surrounding chemical addiction, family dynamics, healing and hope.

Listen as Peter Dunn a.k.a. Pete the Planner® helps us connect-the-dots between what's going on in the economy and how it affects our lives.

We welcome Dr. Alejandro Chaoul as he demystifies the practice of meditation and offers practical and relatable ways to use meditation in health, healing, calm and peace.

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Robin Dickey as she explains, “Work-life priorities vary from person to person. Priorities and needs may shift from day-to-day, even moment-to-moment”, furthering the case that balance, per se, may not be the most helpful goal and it certainly is not a one-size-fits-all remedy.