by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Apr 6, 2019 | Stress, Yoga Calm
With the promise of summer break is in sight, you may find yourself already thinking of ways you can rejuvenate yourself, while also developing new skills and strategies for managing your stress once the next academic year begins. It’s one reason we often hear people...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Mar 24, 2019 | Brain/Mind Science, Media, Mental Health, Mindfulness
Where were you during the Great Facebook Outage of 2019? Thanks to a server configuration change, Facebook – and Instagram and WhatsApp – went down for much of the world one day earlier this month. While some people welcomed the 12-hour outage as “a nice short...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Feb 24, 2019 | K-12 Education, Physical Fitness
Physical education is a crucial part of a child’s overall education. It presents limitless opportunities for instilling healthy habits while supporting their growth and cognitive development. Yet ask a random group of adults what they remember about PE class, and...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Jan 27, 2019 | Social-Emotional Learning
There are those who think bringing social-emotional learning into the classroom is some sort of fad. Not so, asserts a new national commission report from the Aspen Institute. “The promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning…is the substance of education...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Jan 13, 2019 | Trauma
After trauma, it’s not just the brain that remembers. The body remembers, too. One thing that makes it even tougher on both is that trauma is often entwined with shame. We internalize the notion that we’re not supposed to talk about what happened to us. We believe...