Allen Curreri

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Allen Curreri shares thoughts on physician mental health and the stigma surrounding it
As explored in a previous blog, physician burnout has endured as a costly and potentially deadly issue plaguing the medical field. Studies have shown the severe mental damage occasionally spawned by a physician’s daily obligations — especially as it pertains to personal accomplishment and subconscio...

As explored in a previous blog, physician burnout has endured as a costly and potentially deadly issue plaguing the medical field. Studies have shown the severe mental damage occasionally spawned by a physician’s daily obligations — especially as it pertains to personal accomplishment and subconscious alignment. There are, luckily, numerous ways that physicians can combat such adverse feelings, and many of them are based in preemptive planning to stop the problem before it can snowball.
That ...

Physician burnout has endured as a costly and potentially deadly issue plaguing the medical field. Studies have shown the severe mental damage occasionally spawned by a physician’s daily obligations — especially as it pertains to personal accomplishment and subconscious alignment. There are, luckily, numerous ways that physicians can combat such adverse feelings, and many of them are based in preemptive planning to stop the problem before it can snowball.
That said, perhaps the most effective...

You’re trying to get motivated to go on a long run, but you’re struggling. You’ve gone on a long run before, but now it seems to be getting old. Should you change your workout? No. The long runs are necessary to get you in shape for a 5K, a marathon or even an IRONMAN triathlon. Training for long runs will help your body to get used to the changes it will undergo, such as producing more capillaries in muscle fiber, mitochondria (number and size) and glycogen in muscles. And we can’t forget ab...

Mindfulness is now regarded as a fairly ubiquitous medical term, but its power has become undeniable as it is applied to a growing list of conditions and mental states. One such area where mindfulness has made a difference: chronic illness, which itself has become a broad categorical label in medicine. Mindful thinking has been linked to improvements across a variety of stubborn conditions — some of which are largely detrimental to one’s quality of life.
Still, mindfulness, in this regard, ca...

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Health & Fitness
Allen Curreri explores the impact of mindfulness on personal training.
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Being at the gym and practicing mindfulness sound like two things from two different worlds. However, teaching mindfulness to participants at the gym can help them better understand how their body is performing and be able to give proper feedback to trainers. Too often trainers are faced ...

Allen Curreri explores the place of mindfulness in education.
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For nearly 40 years, Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have been researched, developed, supported, and improved. Throughout the last several decades, MBI has progressively moved through health care, mental health, and education.
In 1979, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques; by 1992, mindfulness had been used to develop cognitive therapy or MBCT. In the early 2000s, ...

Allen Curreri debunks myths about running injuries.

Allen Curreri discusses mindfulness and its impact on suicidal thoughts.

Allen Curreri provides some key "don'ts" for running in cold weather.

Allen Curreri lists top mindfulness apps for 2019.

Allen Curreri explores top texts on mindfulness.

Allen Curreri discusses common running injuries

In an ideal world, every step of your run would be pain-free, and nothing would limit your distance or speed. Unfortunately, the majority of runners, professional and amateur, deal with some type of pain during their runs. Most experience only mild disturbances such as a tight hamstring or a slight twinge in the knee which goes away once the run is over and doesn’t persist into every succeeding workout. The majority of injuries aren’t severe enough to warrant taking time off from training. Ho...

Allen Curreri lists more common running myths.