Resource Center

The 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. "Thank you for letting me borrow them! Really helped me calm down and center myself after a quite stressful period of time a couple weeks ago".

TAPES, DVD’s AND CD’S IN
THE WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER

• Allergies
• Breathing
• Eating Disorders/ Body Image
• Exercise
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Mental Health
• Nutrition
• Relaxation
• Sexual Assault
• Sexual Health
• Sleep
• Smoking
• Study Skills
• Weight Loss

Allergies:
Relieve Allergy, Reduce Reactivity: This double CD set provides 10 powerful exercises in 3 sequenced sessions, expertly designed to target better control of your own unique allergic responses. Geared to diminish symptoms such as congestion, wheezing, rashes or digestive distress and to lesion reactivity to allergens, soothe inflammation, cultivate core equilibrium and build immune stress-hardiness, this program demonstrates what we already know from the research, that allergic responses can be modulated by hypnosis.

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

Eating Disorders/Body Image:
Bite By Bite This double CD is wonderful for anyone struggling with weight, and particularly good for people with eating disorders. The first CD offers 7 guidelines to break free from emotional eating, with a 12-minute guided eating meditation. The 2nd CD is about getting in touch with feelings. CD

Puppet Strings. Videotape

Exercise:
Healthy Exercise videotape

Pilates Complete for Everyone – 35 routines 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

Radiant Heart Yoga: This DVD offers a wonderful set of three simple, do-able yoga practices for beginners, that not only help you become more supple and stronger, but contain impressive psychological and spiritual depth. The first is designed to generate love and compassion; the second, relaxation and inner peace; and the third, to promote energy, joy & vitality. DVD

Step-by-Step Tai Chi: A daily Tai Chi ritual that will suit any fitness level and any age – there’s truly something here for everyone. Additionally, this DVD is beautifully shot, with great sound, amplifying the clarity of the instructions.

Yoga for Every Body – 45 workouts for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. DVD

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

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

Help for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Designed to help reduce anxiety, stabilize biochemical swings, increase strength and motivation to resist unwanted thoughts and impulses, and envision a time of freedom from the oppressive symptoms of OCD. Supports and strengthens current treatment protocols for OCD. CD

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

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
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

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

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

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

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
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

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
Bite By Bite: This double CD is wonderful for anyone struggling with weight, and particularly good for people with eating disorders. The first CD offers 7 guidelines to break free from emotional eating, with a 12-minute guided eating meditation. The 2nd CD is about getting in touch with feelings. CD

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

Brochures

On the wall racks there are over 200 different brochures on topics like:
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Cancer and Heart Disease;
Contraception and Abstinence
Depression and Anxiety
Exercise
Nutrition
Pregnancy
Relationships and Self Esteem
Sexual Assault
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Smoking and Chewing
Stress Reduction/Relaxation
Weight Control