Resource Center
Resource CenterThe Wellness Resource Center is located in the lobby of the Ambrose Health Center. This is an area where health and counseling information is made available free of charge to students, staff, and faculty.
95% of students surveyed who used the Wellness Resource Center rated the information excellent or good.
Making Healthy Choices: is a series of 5 video tapes each with a workbook
– Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Eating, Healthy Exercise, Healthy Stress,
Healthy Relationships and Healthy Change. DVD/Videotape
Redefining Liberation. A look at unhealthy images of women in the media.
Videotape
Breathing
Breathe to Beat the Blues:
A sequence of ten pranayama breathing exercises to help you calm your mind and
elevate your mood. CD
Breathing: Master Key to Success: Learn 8 breathing exercises that can help you increase energy, lower you blood pressure, and decrease your anxiety. CD
Take a deep b-r-e-a-t-h: Teaches several kinds of deep breathing. Slow, deep, rhythmic breathing leads to relaxation and a clear, alert mind. Audiotape
Eating
Disorders/ Body Image
Beyond the Image- Takes viewers through their own personal process of looking
at their body image and encourages self reflection and body acceptance. Videotape
Body Image: This tape guides the listener through five relaxing visualizations that promote positive self-image, size acceptance and personal empowerment. Audiotape
Eating Disorders: Journeys of Self-Discovery and Recovery: The National Eating Disorders Screening Program 1997. Videotape
Eating Disorders: Journeys of Self-Discovery and Recovery: The National Eating Disorders Screening Program 1998. Videotape
Puppet Strings. Videotape
Exercise
Pilates Complete for Everyone – 35 routines for beginner, intermediate
and advanced students. DVD
Yoga for Every Body – 45 workouts for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. DVD
Qigong: This movement meditation is an ideal way to cultivate a peaceful mind and a healthy body, especially for those who do not like the idea of sitting still for meditation. Easy to follow 4 part workout. DVD
Healthy Exercise videotape
Headaches
Prevent Headaches: The focus is on relaxing tense muscles in the head and neck
evening out blood vessel caliber, elevating serotonin, clearing out toxins and
evoking balance and calm. Audiotape
Relieve Headaches: To be used when first experiencing a headache, it helps to relax tense muscles in the head and neck, even out blood vessel caliber, elevate serotonin, and evoke calm. Audiotape
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The images on this
program focus on calming the digestive system, releasing toxins, alleviating
pain and discomfort; and reducing bloating, swelling and inflammation. Guided
imagery and affirmations. CD
Mental Health
Accepting Change and Moving On: Loss or separation can be regarded as a positive
challenge when you come to accept change as the beginning of new life. In whatever
form, loss can lead to a greater appreciation for your unique strengths and
abilities. This guided meditation helps with letting go. CD
Anger: Deal with it before it deals with you. Learn to understand anger, deal
with the cause, express it in healthy ways, and release it. Explore the problem
of anger addiction, suppression and depression. CD
Anger and Forgiveness: Designed to promote feelings of acceptance and forgiveness, of self and others; motivate and heal; reduce anger and blame; evoke compassion and empathy; encourage feelings of safety and support; encourage future success. Guided imagery and affirmations. CD
Anxiety Disorders. Videotape
College Suicide Prevention. Videotape
Core Inner Strength: Using hypnosis techniques this program can help you feel more confident and in control. Access unconscious resources that provide you with an authentic sense of becoming comfortable in your own skin with self esteem and self confidence. CD
Combat Depression: Designed to mobilize energy; reduce hopelessness; reduce fatigue; inspire feelings of love, hope and gratitude; connect with inner strength. Guided imagery and affirmations. CD
Depression and Manic Depression: Real Stories, Real Hope. Videotape
Depression and Women: Dispelling the Myths and Finding the Answers- Inspiring profiles of five women ranging from age 18 to 80, who share the stories about their successful battles with clinical depression. Videotape
Grief: Designed to release grief, find peace and feel less isolated; accept feelings; regain energy and focus; encourage hope and inspiration for the future. Guided imagery and affirmations. Audiotape
Healing Trauma (PTSD): Designed to reduce isolation, terror, shame and despair from past trauma. It helps restore a sense of inner goodness, hope, growth, purpose, and connection, not be reliving the trauma, but by metaphorically shifting it incrementally over time with repeated listening. Guided imagery and affirmations. CD
Healthy Relationships Videotape
Just for Fun- Offers a concise and emotionally powerful analysis of the issues surrounding homophobia and violence against gays and lesbians. Videotape
Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know. You’ll learn about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and treatments. Videotape
Moving Back Into the Light- Will help expose the myths and correct misconceptions about Clinical Depression and its treatments. Videotape
Panic Attacks: Healing imagery and powerful music to reduce or eliminate acute anxiety and panic attacks. 4 exercises designed to counter panic, instill a sense of mastery and control and manage or eliminate symptoms. CD
Personal Empowering: Discover a box of inner resources for meeting life’s challenges or take a quiet visit to a timeless desert canyon that restores a sense of perspective, power and strength. Audiotape
Self Confidence: Increase feelings of self-esteem, confidence and worth; improve mastery and performance; reduce anxiety, and fear of failure; heighten self-reliance, creativity, endurance and ability to focus within; and enhance optimism and trust in the future. Guided imagery and affirmations. CD
Successful Relationships: Four different imagery exercises designed to help explore inner difficulties non judgmentally, promote empathy, release grief and open the heart. CD
The Self-Esteem Workout Video- Makes you feel great and helps you create the life you want. Videotape
Three Stages of Healing Trauma - 3 CD set for all three stages of healing from trauma. Stage 1 Safety and Control; Stage 2 Healing and Integration; Stage 3 Clean up and Renewal. 9 different guided imagery exercises and affirmations. CD
Understanding Social Anxiety Disorder. Videotape
Nutrition
Complex Carbohydrates Simplified- Find out more about these nutritious foods
and how you can modify your diet to include more of them. Videotape
Eating Smart: American Cancer Society. Videotape
Healthy Eating Videotape
Portion Size Me: Follow 2 college students as they eat nothing but fast food for one month and manage to lose weight and lower their cholesterol. DVD
Portion Size Me, Too: Learn how to make healthy choices at fast food restaurants and pay attention to the right size portion for you. DVD
Pain Management
Healing Your Back: Learn to alleviate your back pain with muscle relaxation,
imagery, self acceptance and patience and disconnect the triggers for reinjury.
Audiotape
Managing Pain: Designed to reduce pain by elevating serotonin levels; refocusing the mind; encouraging feelings of love, gratitude, safety and peace. Guided imagery and affirmations. Audiotape
Relaxation
AM Yoga Meditations: Tune into your breath, heart and mind to find deep relaxation,
intuitive guidance and a calm strength to clear your mind so you can consciously
and purposefully create an extraordinary and energetic day. CD
Countdown to Relaxation: When you are tense and on edge, take time to relax
with either of these two exercises, set to the soothing music of Steven Halpern.
CD
A Day Away from Stress – Five easy relaxation exercises over a backdrop
of soothing music and five tracks of music only. CD
Earth Prayers: The healing power of nature. An inspiring presentation celebrating the beauty of our planet and her profound ability to promote a sense of inner peace. This video is a magical blend of hundreds of relaxing colorful images of nature in her finest moments combined with poems by Nancy Wood, Rumi, Annie Dillard, and Chief Seattle all of which are set to an enchanting musical score. Videotape
Guided Mindfulness Meditation – Jon Kabat-Zinn provides impeccable guidance as he models presence, being in the moment, accepting things as they are and then letting them go with his fluid, mellow voice, timing and skill. CD
Healing Journey: This sequence helps the listener visualize healing. Audiotape
Healthy Balancing: Feeling pulled in too many directions? Listen as the narrator leads you to rebalance yourself with breathing, visualization and imagery. CD
Healthy Stress Videotape
Massage: The listener is guided through revitalizing shiatsu and acupressure massage routines designed to reduce stress and offer the healing benefits of soothing touch. Audiotape
Meditation: A guide to meditation practices for stress reduction and well being. This beautiful and inspirational video provides a complete introduction to the concept of meditation, its benefits, underlying philosophy and detailed instructions. Videotape
Meditation in the Zone: Combine your exercise routine with enhanced awareness, relaxation and flowing performance. 2 tape set teaches how to use workout time as mindfulness meditation training. Audiotape
Natural Tranquilizers: Six different ten minute natural tranquilizers, set to soothing music allow the listener to slow down, relax, and drift off to sleep or return to work refreshed. Audiotape
Relaxation and Wellness: This imagery helps with general anxiety and promotes feelings of peace, balance and optimism. Audiotape
Sexual Assault
Breaking the Silence: College students speak out about their experiences Videotape
I Wish I Could Have Said No: Three women share their stories of sexual situations in which each handled a sexual proposition in a different manner. Videotape
Sex Without Consent: When a kiss is not just a kiss. Dramatization by college students provides the impetus for discussion, awareness and understanding and offers a direct and effective means of addressing these complex and controversial issues. Videotape
Our Stories: College students tell their stories of sexual assault. Produced by a college student as her senior project at Barnard College Videotape
Voices of Courage: Twelve survivors of sexual assault tell their own stories of tragedy and triumph. A journal of personal growth and recovery. CD
Sexual Health
AIDS: A Decision for life. True story of a women who contracts HIV her first
year in college Videotape
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt- Tells the story of five people who share a common fate…they had AIDS. Videotape
Cocktails and Condoms: A New Definition of Intimacy- Looks at alcohol, sexuality, and communication, focusing on the five ingredients necessary to develop intimacy before a relationship becomes sexual. Videotape
Condoms: A Responsible Option. Videotape
HIV Educational Package: AIDS Awareness, Dawn’s Gift & Crushing The
Flower- Six beautiful examples of acceptance and the triumph of the human spirit.
Videotape
Threads of Love: Story of the AIDS Quilt. Videotape
Sex in the CD. This CD-ROM provides information, resources and avenues to explore the issue of healhty relationships and sexual responsibilbity Participants answer questions, engage in discussions and participate in a number of interacitve exercises. There are three rooms: a coffee house, a bookstore and a nightclub in which participants can explore.CD-ROM
We Bring a Quilt. Videotape
Sleep
Deep Sleep: Soothing Delta wave frequencies, associated with deep restorative
sleep and subliminal messages are woven into gentle music. Best used with headphones.CD
Healthful Sleep: Designed to promote peaceful sleep; create relaxed feelings of safety and calm; release muscular tension in the body; clear the mind of worry and obsessive thinking; heighten a sense of protection and support. Followed by continuous music. CD
PM Yoga Meditations: Tune into your breath, heart and mind to find deep relaxation, intuitive guidance and a calm strength to let go of the day’s stress and prepare for a night of restful and rejuvenating sleep. CD
Smoking
Journey of a Lifetime: Smoking cessation resource created by a college peer
education network. Includes a Media Center of information, CrossRoads decision
making center and Road Trip personalized quitting plan. CD-ROM
Hollywood’s Smoke and Mirrors: Women’s Health at Risk. Videotape
Secrets Through the Smoke: Dr. Wigand shares his experiences about the tobacco industry’s manipulation of the truth. Videotape
Stop Smoking: Guided imagery to help you experience the positive results of being smoke free. CD
Women and Tobacco: Seven Deadly Myths- Explores the myths about smoking and empowers women to become or stay smoke-free. Videotape
Study Skills
Test Taking Mastery –Use hypnosis techniques to work with your unconscious
mind, first maximizing your study time and then making sure that you are in
the ideal state for acing the exam. Retain more information in less time and
then take the test with an increased alertness, focus and level of concentration.
CD
Winning at Learning: Four easy to use, accelerated learning techniques for studying and test taking. Helps to increase pre study focus and post study retention. CD
Weight Loss
Freeing Yourself from Excess Weight: A combination of self hypnosis, imagery
and affirmations to help you desire healthy food, pure water and exercise. CD
Weight Loss: Designed to reduce the craving for food; increase confidence and self esteem; encourage body acceptance; safely speed up the body’s metabolism; help the body convert fat into energy; reinforce positive behavior change; teach relaxations skills. Guided imagery and affirmations. CD
Weight Loss Hypnotic: Use self hypnosis to support your goal of healthy eating
and an active metabolism. Also includes subliminal messages embedded in relaxing
music. CD
You can sample some of the CD's in our collection at this
site. Health Journeys
· Books & Booze
· Birth Control
· Students & Stress
· Munchies
· STD's
· HIV
· SEX, It's Your Call
· Alcohol 101 - may be checked out
· Sex in the CD - may be checked out
· Voices not Victims - may be checked out
· Testwell lifestyle assessment
On the wall racks there are over 200 different brochures on topics like:
· Alcohol and Other Drugs
· Cancer and Heart Disease
· Contraception
· Depression and Anxiety
· Exercise
· Nutrition
· Relationships and Self Esteem
· Sexual Assault
· Sexually Transmitted Diseases
· Smoking
· Stress Reduction/Relaxation
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Updated: 09/17/2008
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