Student Wellness

Wellness Workshops provide a casual environment to learn more about areas that you'd like to strengthen in your self-care practices  

Sleep Workshop

Are you are having difficulty with getting enough quality sleep? Would you like to learn how sleep affects your academic performance, your resistance to getting sick, your mood... and how you can take steps to improve your zzz’s? Sign up for a lunchtime Sleep Workshop.

Nutrition Workshop 

Nutrition Workshops offered most Thursdays during community time 12:30-1:30pm. Sign up for a lunchtime workshop.

Boost Your Immunity Workshops Are you tired of getting sick? Want to learn how to break the cycle, feel better and jumpstart your immune system again? Join us for a casual lunch & learn.

• Wellesley's Alcohol & Other Drug Policy 
• If you choose to drink, here are the essential thhings you need to know:
  • Eat before drinking
  • Measure your drinks: 12oz of beer, 5oz of wine, 1.5oz of 80 proof liquor
  • Pace yourself: About 1 drink an hour
  • Count your drinks: 2 is average 
  • Drink water between each drink and before you go to bed. 
  • For athletes: NCSA, NCAA

• Wellesley College's Policy
• For more information about what cannabis is and how is affects your health visit here

If you are sexually active or thinking of becoming sexually active, here are some important considerations:

• Get to know about contraception. And discuss the best option for you with your healthcare provider. 
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

• Wellesley College Sexual Misconduct and Title IX
• Sexual Violence Prevention

• Attend a Student Wellness Sleep Workshop 
• Tips and more information

• Stress Management Guide

Individual Education/Counseling Services with a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist

• Make an appointment by calling Health Services 781-283-2810
• Indivdual appointments are for students who are:
  • Managing nutrition-related diseases/heath problems such as IBS, Diabetes, PCOS
  • Refueling for optimal sport performance
  • Managing weight or body image concerns
  • Normalizig disordered eating behavoirs
  • There is no cost to Wellesley College Students
  • All visits are confidential 
  • Offered every Wednesday 12-5pm

Nutritional Educational Programming

General Nutrition Resources

Stop by and check out our free nutrition library in the Office of Student Wellness

Online Resources:

• The Nutrition Source | Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP)
• National Eating Disorders Association
• ASDAH
• Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits | National Institutes of Health
• Using Dietary Supplements Wisely
• Rough Up Your Diet

Disordered Eating Resources:

• If you are concerned you may have an eating disorder please contact Health Services to make an appointment
• Self-Assessment tool: Eats-26
• Books:
  • The Disease To Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome
  • Feeling Good about the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems
  • Rethinking Thin: Gina Kolata: 9780312427856
  • Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self
  • Life without Ed: How one woman declared inpedence from her eating disorder and how you can to​

Have questions/concerns about dining hall food (availability, choice, labeling, allergens, other?), contact AVI Dietitian Brittany Moriarty

• Health Alerts:
  • Vaping and quit help
  • Infulenza (flu) information/prevention
    • Flu shots and Health Services Influenza Information