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Chief Health Advisor
Dr. Phillip Waite has worked in the field of Health Promotion and Public Health for over 20 years. After active duty service in the U.S. Army, Dr. Waite received bachelor's and master's degrees at Utah State University and his Ph.D. at the University of Utah, all in the field of Health Promotion. While going to school, he worked in the corporate sector running a large work site health promotion program. He began his faculty appointment at Utah State University in 2003. Dr. Waite established a research record examining the relationship between spiritual and physical health behaviors, the impact of work site resiliency training, the outcomes of community and school-based violence and drug prevention programs, and impacts of mentoring reminiscence with senior populations and on the evaluation of health care and health promotion interventions. Phil spends his free time with his family and enjoys running, hiking and travel.
Expect the unexpected. Life is not meant to be easy. We all have our challenges. It's how we respond to them that really matters.
Living and coping with chronic illness can be difficult, especially during the holidays. It often requires stressful changes to your life and the lives of family members closest to you.
There are very few things in life you can really count on, but one thing you can count on is you will have trials and adversity in your life. When those trials are physical, it can add unwanted stress to your life, relationships, work and more.
For those who don't ordinarily feel stressed under the pressure of events or deadlines, the holidays can still play havoc with our lives. So what can we do? Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid.
For someone dealing with chronic illness there are now mobile resources available on demand that didn't exist even a few years ago. So, here are some of my favorite mobile apps.
To most people getting fit with chronic illness sounds like an oxymoron. The old me thought that people that were chronically ill simply did not exercise, ever! But experience has taught me that exercise is key
I really don't like seasonal changes because some kind of house or yard work follows. All these outdoor chores can take a heavy toll on someone with chronic illness. I've been thinking about practical ways
We all experience those moments of weakness where we give way to the groundswell of emotions arising from our illness or other forms of adversity. It can be so difficult to stay focused on healing well.
I had just gone through another round of specialized tests for my arthritis symptoms which had been escalating in intensity over the Winter. The results were inconclusive. No clear patterns. No diagnosis. No ready treatments. No answers. The only proof I had was the unrelenting pain
Mindfulness was not a term I was familiar with when I was diagnosed with chronic illness 17 years ago. Looking back, I wish I had known more about how to practice it in my life. It would have saved me a lot of worry
