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Lifestyle Medicine Workshop: Stress Reduction

Wednesday, July, 26, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Free

Reducing stress is the key to emotional health. In this workshop, lifestyle medicine specialist Dr. Raquel Harrison will help you reframe stress to understand when it is beneficial and when it becomes distress, along with strategies to reorient to a healthy level.
Future workshops to consider:
• 8/23 Social Connectedness
• 9/27 Understanding Risky Behaviors: healthier approaches to stress

Dr. Raquel Harrison (MD, FACEP, dipABLM) is dual board certified in emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine. With over 12 years of experience working in large urban emergency departments, she has been heavily impacted by how often lifestyle choices result in visits to the hospital. Leveraging years working in education as an assistant professor and assistant residency director at Yale School of Medicine, she now directs her passion for teaching towards educating others about lifestyle medicine and its critical role in preventing and reversing diseases that commonly lead to emergency visits and hospitalization.

Details

Date:
Wednesday, July, 26, 2023
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://newcanaanlibrary.org/event/lifestyle-medicine-workshop-stress-reduction

Venue

New Canaan Library
151 Main Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
Phone:
203-594-5000
Website:
newcanaanlibrary.org

Organizer

New Canaan Library
Phone:
203-594-5000
Website:
http://newcanaanlibrary.org