The healthy desk jockey blog

There's a moment most people recognize.

Back-to-back meetings. An inbox that never empties. Lunch eaten at your desk...again. You keep adding things to your plate and nothing ever comes off.

You cal...

When I heard our baby take his first breath, I didn't expect to cry.

But, I did.

Not only from joy. But also, from relief. From the specific, gut-level recognition that this breath, this first one, ...

You know that feeling when a meeting starts and nobody's really there yet?

Bodies in seats. Eyes on screens. Someone still finishing an email from the last call. Someone else mentally replaying a con...

You renewed it anyway.

The gym membership subsidy. The meditation app. The EAP that three people have ever called. The wellness challenge where six employees competed and one of them was you.

You kn...

You can feel it the moment you step in.

The air isn’t thick.
The energy isn’t frantic.
People are focused, but they’re not frantic.

They’re breathing. Working. Pausing.
And breathing again.

This is wh...

Stress has become a silent productivity killer in many workplaces. With deadlines to meet, meetings to attend, and a constant influx of emails, it's no wonder employees are feeling the weight of stres...

Back pain is one of the most common health issues facing Americans today, and it’s only getting worse. With so many of us spending the majority of our day sitting—whether at work or at home—our bodies...

The pandemic pause brought us to a moment of collective reckoning about what it means to live well and to work well. As a result, employees are sending employers an urgent signal that they are no long...

Now listed as an actual workplace location, it appears that “remote” is here to stay. In addition to ensuring work from home employees have the necessary technology and training tools, business leader...

Have YOU ever felt like your back was "locked up"?

Instead of limiting movement, often what our backs need are ways to gently expand or open using stretch, strengthen and roll exercises that graduall...