Our environment plays a critical role in influencing so many of the choices we make daily. Given the choice between easy and difficult, we most often choose easy. More complicated, or simple? We'll take simple please. When it comes to exercise, I've heard a fitness expert say, "The best gym is the one that's closest... Continue Reading →
Flipping the Mental Switch
Happy Friday! Here's a success story to start your weekend with. Today's story is shared by Katherine Swan, from the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Montana. As we focus on mental health this year, Katherine's story is an awesome reminder of the power of perception, and how a small change... Continue Reading →
Improving Mindfulness & Performance with Whil
We're only a few days into our 2019 MUS Wellness Incentive program, and we hope you're off to a good start! As mentioned before, our 2019 program is placing a special emphasis on mental health, and to that end we've introduced Whil, a new tool to help you practice mindfulness, reduce stress, and boost your... Continue Reading →
Initiate Countdown!
We're hours away from the launch of our 6th year of the MUS Wellness Incentive Program, and to be honest, we can't wait to get started! It's going to be fun. It's going to be challenging. It's going to be fresh. Here are some new things to look forward to! All your favorite things, plus... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year!
Happy 2019! Although I’m not one to make strict resolutions, I do find that the start of a new year is a good time for self-reflection and a setting of intentions for the coming year. For me, the subtle language shift from resolution to intention allows more flexibility, and when it comes to making behavior... Continue Reading →
End of Year/New Year News
Our MUS Wellness Incentive Program is winding down this week, so we wanted to share some important end-of-year dates for our participants, plus share some news to get you excited for our next round! 2019 Program News The MUS Wellness Incentive Program will be returning January 15th, 2019, for our 6th year of programming! Here... Continue Reading →
Hitting 10,000. Every Day.
Today's success story comes from Trudy Carey. Trudy is the director of Disability Support Services at MSU Billings, and has been a Wellness Champion on that campus for several years. Trudy has also been a very active and competitive participant in all our wellness challenges. She especially loves a good step challenge, as her story... Continue Reading →
Wellchat Episode XXI: Life Hacks
Episode 21: Neal and Cristin discuss and comment on the recent MUS employee crowd source question regarding favorite Life Hacks. Tune in to learn your peers' secrets to making life easier, more manageable, and creating healthy habits that stick. The Montana Moves & Meals Wellchat is available on Itunes podcasts! Subscribe and take us with you... Continue Reading →
Very Healthy Competition
Kudos to our Bozeman and Missoula communities, who set more records this year in their annual Can the Griz/Can the Cats Food drive competition. Over 850,000 lbs of food and funds were collected this year between the two communities, with each receiving record donations to their local food banks. Amazing! MUS Wellness was able to... Continue Reading →
Feeling Thankful.
For the past six years, our end-of-year tradition at MUS Wellness has been to collect success stories from our awesome MUS employees, and share some of the highlights. We've just begun reading your stories, which are always inspiring and a great reminder of why we do what we do here at MUS Wellness. I thought... Continue Reading →

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