Apps and tools available to help you recharge
This is a space for you—a place to keep your mental, physical and emotional well-being in check. Whether it’s through exercise, meditation, or online learning, we hope you’ll take some time to focus on yourself.
COVID-19 Resiliency
The Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine (SBSM) identified information that can be useful in addressing sleep concerns, including recommendations for specific sleep conditions.
Need help coping with stress and building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic? The CDC has a comprehensive plan, including where to go if you need help.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs provides guidance and resources on how you can help manage your stress from the COVID-19 virus outbreak, including a printable handout.
Dive deeper into three resiliency strategies that will help you cope with COVID-19: model resilient leadership, establish strong peer support programs, and foster organizational resilience.
Mind and Body
Warrior's Edge, created by Dr. Michael Gervais and Coach Pete Carroll, provides essential psychological tools to train one's mind under stress.
Guided mindfulness meditations to reduce stress, improve sleep, increase focus, and improve relationships.
In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair, and a wall, this routine fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort—all of it based on science.
Sweat to a mix of running, strength, cycling, yoga, and more in your home and outdoors.
Well-being
This Yale course engages you in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits.
Accurately measure and track six dimensions of distress and well-being with the validated nine-question assessment invented by Mayo Clinic.
The ACP helps provide guidance and resources that foster communities of well-being so that you can best serve patients and optimize professional fulfillment.
Sleep problems? This app will guide you through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving your sleep environment.
Gratitude
"Why Health Professionals Should Cultivate Gratitude” Physician Leif Hass learns how gratitude can bring more meaning and resilience to his work.
Enjoy the short Guided Morning Gratitude Meditation to help inspire you to appreciate what you have and who is in your life.
What makes a good life? Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger shares three important lessons learned from the longest study on happiness ever conducted.
Happiness and Joy
In “The Surprising Science of Happiness,” Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want.
The monthly podcast “Joy in Medicine,” takes a comprehensive look at clinical burnout and how to address it, exploring how clinicians can seize joy in their practice.
Recognizing our Wellness Resources work group
Recognizing the increasing demands that the COVID-19 pandemic has created for our CHEST community, CHEST President Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP asked Alex Niven, MD, FCCP to lead a work group made of CHEST experts across our Networks in Chest Infections, Critical Care, Disaster Response and Global Health to ensure CHEST properly supports our members and their health-care teams during this time of need. Through the identification and delivery of high quality resources, monthly webinars, and encouragement of ongoing discussion within our community, this group is working hard to sustain our interprofessional health-care teams, offer tools to maintain focus and concentration in difficult situations, and innovate to better meet the needs of our teams and patients during the present crisis and beyond.
Alexander Niven, MD, FCCP
Wellness Series, Chair
Ritwick Agrawal, MD, FCCP
Sleep Steering Committee
Aneesa Das, MD FCCP
Chair, Council of Networks
Carl Kaplan, MD, FCCP
Respiratory Care Network, Chair
Septimiu Murgu, MD, FCCP
Education Committee, Chair
Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP
Curtis Sessler, MD, FCCP
Tom Fuhrman, MD, FCCP
Respiratory Care Network, Vice-Chair
Alice Gallo de Moraes, MD
Scientific Presentations and Awards Committee
Social Media Work Group
Twitter Handle Pilot Subcommittee