We’ll conclude this year’s Dare to Do wellness challenge as we began it: by pausing to reflect. Eight weeks ago, some 1,650 University of Washington faculty and staff made a commitment to set goals and strive to reach them by focusing on different facets of overall wellness. From taking time to move more to learning how [...]

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Can you believe it’s already been 7 full weeks since we embarked on Dare to Do 2019? 7 weeks of pausing, moving, fueling, improving, giving, accepting and reducing. As January and February have quite literally melted by, we dive into our last week of UW’s New Year’s wellness challenge. With so much that pulls at [...]

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This week we look at how what we carry with us in life affects our demeanor and wellbeing, as well as how we can have a better impact on the world surrounding us. Daring to Reduce means asking meaningful questions such as, “How can I better spend my time?” “How do my actions affect those [...]

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This week, as part of our ongoing Dare to Do challenge, we’re focusing on strategies for and benefits of accepting oneself. Danny Arguetty, manager of UW Recreation’s Mindfulness Program, took time to reflect on ways to welcome acceptance into your life and the positive growth and outcomes that come about when you do. Human beings are wonderfully [...]

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This week, as part of our ongoing Dare to Do challenge, we focus on giving time and service to those in need. There is no surprise that giving back to one’s community and improving the lives of those around us is an important part to the university’s mission.  It’s in everything we do at the Whole U, [...]

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This week, as part of the ongoing 8-week Dare to Do challenge, we hone in on time management, organization, and financial wellness. Not surprisingly, all three of these concepts are closely related and impact one another.  When we focus on being intentional with our time, we are able to better position our lives. Whether that [...]

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Welcome to the second week of Dare to Do, the 8-week wellness challenge for making lasting, positive change in the New Year! This week, we’ll be encouraging you to Dare to Move—incorporating fitness and physical activity throughout your day. It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway into January. As with any other New [...]

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Even amid the hustle and bustle of the holidays and year-end deadlines, it can feel reinvigorating to set aside some time as the year draws to a close to celebrate and reflect on what we’ve accomplished and analyze areas of our lives we’d like to improve. In doing so, you might just find yourself setting [...]

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We all have that song—the piece of music that gets us moving in the morning. The one that taps a hidden reserve of energy during a workout in pursuit of a personal best or which settles the nerves at the end of a stressful day. It’s the one that really takes you back, spurs you [...]

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For the most part, our weeks are pretty stacked schedule-wise. From important meetings and classes to various appointments and social engagements, every day can come with new obligations that we just can’t miss. If you’re looking to hit any fitness goals, you may need to make room in your calendar, too. Scheduling workouts can often [...]

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Growing up in the small borough of Lewistown in central Pennsylvania, Jack Berryman excelled at athletics. As a freshman in high school, he lettered at shortstop for the varsity baseball team. Each fall, he’d leg it down the soccer field with ease. When the weather turned cold in winter, he was usually one of ten [...]

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Todd Tuetken always loved to lift. Growing up on a cattle farm in eastern Iowa, he watched his father and uncle build their own weight-lifting equipment with parts from an old combine harvester. Together they engineered a leg press, a spot rack, and rigged a lat pulldown machine using a tiller disc and combine chain. [...]

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