Stress and Disease with Dr. Wendy Hurwitz

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Up to 90% of all visits to doctors’ offices are stress-related, according to Harvard.  Stress can be considered as much a risk factor for disease as smoking.

Why can two people be in the same situation and respond to stress in different ways?

Can changing the way we carry stress be a learnable skill?

Come and learn the difference between good and bad stress, increase awareness of how stress impacts the body, and hear about the emerging pattern matching specific symptoms and diseases with specific stresses.

Everyone will learn a technique to minimize stress and maximize vitality.

About Dr. Wendy Hurwitz: 

A graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Hurwitz is a nationally recognized expert on stress. A former medical researcher for ABC News, Dr. Hurwitz is an expert in two fields: Mind/Body Medicine and Energy Medicine. She teaches both professionals and students in medicine, psychology, and the allied health professions, and has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, NYU, and Fordham University. Dr. Hurwitz is the author of the chapter Energy Medicine in the textbook Micozzi, M (ed): Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2nd Edition, Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2001. She has a forthcoming book on stress. 

Dr. Hurwitz is a former member of the Medical, Scientific, and Academic Council of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine; member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine; Fellow of the American Institute of Stress; member of the International Positive Psychology Association; member of the American Counseling Association; and an American Red Cross Local Disaster Volunteer. She has used energetic assessments for over three decades in her own work with clients. Based in NYC Metro Area, Dr. Hurwitz offers consultations in person and by phone. 

Dr. Hurwitz helps organizations and individuals achieve peak performance by enhancing vitality and wellness. She provides individual energetic assessments, personal consultation, training, lectures, seminars, and workshops. She translates the latest and most sophisticated scientific research on stress and energy into practical, easy-to-use techniques people can use to maintain and enhance vitality even under the most trying circumstances. Dr. Hurwitz has provided training for AT&T, Unilever, Lowe Worldwide, the FDNY, and has been an invited guest speaker at the United Nations.

This FREE event is sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library.