{"id":162320,"date":"2020-07-20T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=162320"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:58:01","slug":"uconn-magazine-staying-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/07\/uconn-magazine-staying-well\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Staying Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWellness\u201d may be among the biggest buzzwords of the past decade (not to mention a $4.5 trillion industry), but it has taken on new meaning as people the world over try to balance widespread uncertainty and stress with a new, socially distanced way of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think of wellness as the activities and habits that we develop to not only keep us sane but promote overall well-being and satisfy that itch to be a better version of yourself,\u201d says Emily Abbate \u201910 (CLAS), a freelance journalist and podcaster who believes her \u201cmission as a human is to empower other people to be their best selves and to move with some sort of intention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On her podcast, \u201cHurdle,\u201d she\u2019s asked more than 100 guests \u2014 from Olympic runner Desiree Linden and celebrity trainers Jillian Michaels and Gunnar Peterson to Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe and The Meatball Shop restaurateur Michael Chernow \u2014 about their #HurdleMoment, a turning point that allowed them to break free of struggle through some form of wellness. You better believe she has a story of her own \u2014 and it started at UConn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2020\/06\/17\/staying-well-means-staying-on-the-move-even-when-youre-stuck-at-home\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying well means staying on the move \u2014 even when you\u2019re stuck at home, says exercise guru Emily Abbate \u201910 (CLAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":162321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,1862,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-162320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-busn","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 03:38:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162323,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162320\/revisions\/162323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/162321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162320"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=162320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=162320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}