Online resources, assessments, podcasts, videocasts, and more!

For your physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual, career and social health.

UCSD Online Resources

LiveWell Balance Test  Find out if you are well balanced in the areas of intellectual, environmental, emotional, social, occupational, financial, spiritual, and physical wellness. If not, this test will point you toward UCSD resources.

LiveWell UCSD Blog  Weekly wellness tips for college students. Come visit and comment on the articles.

Courses on Wellness Find UCSD courses from various departments that will improve your understanding of wellness!

UCSD Health & Wellness Podcasts, Videos and upcoming lectures  Links to recent and upcoming lectures on a wide variety of topics. Includes podcasts, videocasts and electronic handouts. 

Overall Wellness

Ask Dr. Weil   Dr. Weil is an integrative medicine specialist. Offers information on complementary medicine and holistic health.

Go Ask Alice   Popular and award winning message board for college students to ask any question about health and wellness topics.

 

Ping My Health  An online survey to assess your health and wellness. Takes only 5 minutes to complete and covers nutrition, mental health, physical activity, sexual health, tobacco and alcohol and other drugs. You get personalized feedback and resources to maintain and/or improve health.  Participants will be entered to win an iPod Nano!

Emotional Wellness

AuthenticHappiness.Org   Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment.

Stress Management Discovery Health   Stress management tips and info from Discovery Health.

Ulifeline  A mental health library, drug database, mental health screening tests, how to help a friend, support groups, crisis centers, suicide prevention information and much more.

MentalHelp.net   A website with resources, news, psych self-help, books, etc.

Mindful Clock  A program you can install on your computer. It will install an audio clock, which will ring either a bell of mindfulness or Westminster Chimes. The bell can be set to go off on the hour, the quarter hour, or randomly.

IAMNEXT.COM Academics   A user-friendly website with tips about time management and personal planning for your days in college.

AboutCollege.Com   A website with information about time management and tips for planning your schedule.

Managing Test Anxiety   A site provided by the University of Western Ontario on how to manage test anxiety. 

Study Habits & Test Anxiety   A website provided via the University of Buffalo Counseling Services.  

CampusBlues.com - Test Anxiety   A website designed to facilitate student awareness and use of school resources regarding test anxiety.

Environmental Wellness

Environmental Working Group   The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment.

Farmer's Markets in San Diego   A San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project website.

Climate Crisis (An Inconvenient Truth website)   Calculate your carbon footprint, learn about how you can help the environment, and more!

Yahoo! Green News, Blogs and Tools for Living Green.

 

Financial Wellness

Loan Counseling

Debt Counseling

Time value of money

Savings (pdf)

Credit Card counseling

Intellectual Wellness

UCSD Libraries   The UC San Diego Libraries are composed of nine separate libraries with services and programs designed to support the academic and programmatic pursuits of the UCSD faculty, students and staff.  

Occupational Wellness

Yahoo! HotJobs   Search jobs, look up resume and cover letter templates, learn about networking, and get valuable tips for interviewing, the first day on the job, and more.

Physical Wellness

Student Health   UCSD Student Health information and services.

RealAge   Very popular free, online test telling you how to improve health and longevity.

Gyminee  Fitness and nutrition tracking. iPhone fitness tracker.®  Workout routines and more.

Spark People   Another fitness and nutrition tracker. Also a wellness community.

Wellness Balance Test   Evaluate your personal wellness balance at this University of British Columbia online test.  Get feedback on the areas of physical, spiritual, social, emotional, intellectual and occupational wellness.

WebMD   Health related topics of all kinds.     

Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information   Resources for health topics of all types.

The Daily Plate Nutrition and fitness tracker to help you eat smarter. Co-sponsored by LiveStrong.

Nutrition Data Another nutrition tracker so you know what you eat.

Social Wellness

Meetup  Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Spiritual Wellness

Belief Net   One stop shopping for spirituality of any kind. Take the Belief-O-Matic ® quiz. Explore different belief systems.

The Labyrinth Society   A group that promotes labyrinths - ancient spiritual paths used for personal, psychological and spiritual transformation.

Medicine Wheel Information about a Native American spiritual manifestation of health and wellness.