Research and Publications
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Business Leader | 20 startups set to take part in the 2022 Norrsken Impact Accelerator
Today, Norrsken has announced the twenty companies that will participate in its 2022 Norrsken Impact Accelerator, an accelerator program designed to find the world’s most promising early-stage impact startups and help them scale.
Understanding Our Mood With Reflective Questions
This article will help you learn about reflective questioning and understand changes in your mood.
Market Watch | uMore revealed its inaugural impact report, with a resounding 84% positive feedback response
uMore, MIAMI-based mental health start-up dedicated to enabling individuals to self-manage their mental health released its inaugural Impact Report, highlighting the mobile app’s self-care activities released with the new application.
Business Insider Spain | These entrepreneurs did not know each other in person 6 months ago, but they have already caught the attention of Google: uMore, the app with Spanish DNA that analyzes your stress and anxiety about how you use the phone
Maria de Freitas and Alejandro Serrano, are two of the founders of the app that this summer has gone through the Google Growth Academy program: Health & Wellbeing.
“We want to do for mental health, what wearables did for physical health,” both entrepreneurs say.
Business Insider | Prominent female founders in Europe say they avoided wearing pink and mentioning their kids when pitching to venture capitalists
When Maria de Freitas sought funding for her AI-powered mental-health startup, uMore, she struggled to book meetings.
Despite previous roles as a Google fellow and as head of growth at Uber’s subsidiary Careem, “all the doors were shut,” she told Insider.
Startup Luso-Brasileira, uMore revela o seu relatório de impacto de feedback de autocuidados com uma resposta positiva de 84%
A uMore, a start-up de saúde mental com sede nos Estados Unidos e fundada pela Luso-Brasileira Maria de Freitas, é uma startup dedicada a capacitar indivíduos para auto gerirem a sua saúde mental, lançou o seu Relatório de Impacto inaugural, destacando as atividades de autocuidados da aplicação móvel lançadas com a nova aplicação.
Impact Report: Fostering understanding with self-care
Impact report on uMore self-care activities uMore launches the first collection of self-care activities designed to help users take action to improve their personal well-being. Each self-care activity is based on scientific evidence and helps foster health-promoting...
What Is Positive Psychology?
What is positive psychology? How do we practice a positive mentality? Let’s find out!
What does burnout feel like? And why do I always feel exhausted after work?
What is burnout? How do we look after ourselves when we feel it? Let’s explore burnout and learn how to manage it.
Practice autogenic training, helping you become more centered.
This article will help you develop autogenic training skills to feel more calm and relaxed.
Did you know we we tend to talk to ourselves throughout every day!
This article will help you understand how developing a positive inner dialogue can help you combat stress.
Try a mindfulness-based stress reduction technique to your mind become aware of your body’s relationship.
This article will help you learn to deep breathe and practice mindfulness meditation to reduce stress.
Release Tension With Applied Relaxation
This article will help you relax your body from top-to-bottom to reduce feelings of tension or stress.
Focus on relaxation breathing, it is important to take some time to yourself to recenter, relax, and enter a place of calm.
This article will help you learn to breathe and relax your body in times of stress.
Bring calm to your body with diaphragmatic breathing
Let’s relieve this tension by practising a technique called diaphragmatic breathing. As you can tell from its name, this exercise uses the powerful breathing muscle above our belly to establish calm through long-lasting breaths.
So you would think we know how to do this correctly, right? Well, perhaps you should think again.
Learn how to deep and mindful breathing can improve your mood, increase blood circulation, and reduce stress.
Do you experience headaches, tension, or difficulty breathing when you are stressed? You are not alone.
Oftentimes stress and strong emotions can put a strain on the way we breathe – whether it manifests as shortness of breath or panicked breathing.
Do you think of yourself as a perfectionist? Do you sometimes feel that no matter how hard you try, nothing is ever good enough?
Sometimes we create very high expectations for ourselves. We oftentimes do this to do a “good job” in the eyes of others. If we don’t reach our high objectives, however, we can feel unworthy, anxious, and stressed. This might happen when our emotions start to dictate how we feel.
You are stronger than you think. You have overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges before. Take action in concrete ways, and you can solve anything.
Learn to distance your emotional response from a logical response to a challenging situation. With the right mindset, no problem is insurmountable.
Emotional fluctuation is natural and quite normal. Our emotions come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they are positive, while other times they are negative.
Our emotions can take us on a daily roller coaster ride. We will learn more about emotional regulation to manage these ups and downs.