Wellness Resources: January 2025

Virgin Pulse is now Personify Health

The Hoos Well Portal is now Personify Health!

• The app has been automatically updated.
• Your username and password are the same.
• All programs, account history, and features continue to be available.
• Your rewards will refresh on February 3, 2025.

New web address: app.personifyhealth.com

Don't have a Hoos Well Portal account? To find more information and how to join, click here.

Hoos Well can help with your New Year's Resolutions

It's the new year when we make resolutions. Things like improving our diet, exercising more, or quitting smoking may be on your list. All of these are great goals and highly encouraged. 

Hoos Well has resources to support you in achieving these goals:

• Create a Hoos Well Portal account
• Find physical well-being opportunities
• Find tobacco cessation resources
• Find virtual nutritional offerings and/or schedule a 1:1 Nutrition Counseling consultation
• Find resources to practice Mindfulness

If not now, when? Review the many resources Hoos Well has to offer.

Take a Micro Health Break

Take a 10-minute break to refresh your mind and body with a new 8-week series of Micro Health Breaks. Boost your focus with chair yoga, ease stress with meditation, strengthen your body through low-intensity cardio, or explore the transformative power of mindset shifts and self-care. 

• The series started January 7th. You can download the entire series to your Outlook account. 
• Click here for more information, break dates/times, and steps to download the series. 

UVA National Diabetes Prevention Lifestyle Change Program 

Join the UVA National Diabetes Prevention Lifestyle Change Program to learn strategies for lasting lifestyle changes, to lose weight, and reduce the risk of developing diabetes.

• This 12-month program begins January 2025.
• Click here for more information

More Hoos Well Opportunities

• Create a Hoos Well Portal Account and earn up to $500 in awards while enhancing your well-being. Thousands of your colleagues are already reaping the benefits of the Portal and its offerings. Watch this recorded demo to learn how to get the most from the Portal.
• Join WW (WeightWatchers) through UVA at a discounted rate.
• Get one complimentary nutrition counseling session for those covered by a UVA health plan through the UVA Nutrition Counseling Center. 
• Meet with a Live Health Coach to achieve your personalized health goals. Your Health Coach will work with you to formulate a strategy to achieve improved well-being. 
• Join a free Hoos Well drop-in exercise class such as Yoga, Cycling, or Body Pump.
• Get free access to Healthy Minds@Work, a personal guided journey to a healthier mind.

What are You Grateful For?

One of the most powerful ways to usher in more joy and peace into our lives is to regularly practice gratitude. Why not start a gratitude journal or other practice to acknowledge what you're grateful for on a regular basis and see how it impacts your attitude and overall life. While you may not notice the affects immediately, they'll start to show over time.