SoulBeing Blog
News, information, and resources to help you understand and improve your health.
The Answer to this Month’s BIG Questions – Newsletter: May 2022
May has been full of conferences, and we are energized by the renewed connection with a community hungry for new solutions to support their people in innovative and holistic ways. Being able to share our story face to face after so much remote work has been incredibly...
Good News! HSA Contribution Limits Increase in 2023
The Internal Revenue Service has released health savings account (HSA) contribution limits for calendar year 2023, welcome news for employers, employees, and HSA-eligible service providers alike. “The Internal Revenue Service announced Friday that for the calendar...
Healthy Earth, Healthy Communities, Healthy Us! Newsletter: April 2022
Earlier this week I was speaking with my three-year-old daughter about Earth Day, or as she calls it, “Earth’s Birthday” (adorable). I started sharing ways we can help the Earth and saying things I remember from my childhood like “the Earth is our home and we all need...
Feeling the Shift! Newsletter: March 2022
Companies are concerning themselves with the well-being of their employees more than ever. In the 2021 employer benefits survey by Willis Towers Watson, 69% of HR decision-makers identified integrating employee well-being into their benefits offerings as their top...
McKinsey Study on the Changing (and Growing!) Wellness Industry
This week in "The ShortList," McKinsey & Company explored how the global wellness industry is responding to fast-changing consumer habits. Trends toward personalization, increased mobility, and on-demand services are seeing strong growth both in consumer habits...
Doing the Foundational Work – Newsletter: February 2022
February is a month associated with love of all kinds: self-love, romantic love, love of family and friends. As I reflect on the things that February teaches us, themes such as “patience,” “finding the silver lining,” and “doing the foundational work” come to mind....
How this benefits company prevents unnecessary medical procedures and prescriptions.
SoulBeing was featured by Employee Benefits News (EBN) for the work we're doing to educate and empower employees and their families about the healthcare choices available to them, and drive down healthcare costs in the process. We've included an excerpt below, you can...
As Well-being Declines, Workers Look to Their Employers for More Support
In its 10th Annual Workplace Benefits Study, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian®) finds that self-reported overall health among American workers declined last year, with most employees saying their companies need to do more to support their...
January Hygge, Plant-a-Tree, and More! Newsletter: January 2022
A very chilly transition into 2022 has us all cuddled up at home. As we are preparing in the Northeast for our first (and maybe last?) big storm of the season this weekend, I started thinking about a conversation I recently had with Nadia Murdock of Nadia Murdock Fit...
SoulBeing Joins Buoy Health’s Marketplace to Offer Alternative Medicine Services to Consumers
PORTLAND, ME – September 7, 2021 – SoulBeing today announced that it has joined Buoy Health’s innovative healthcare marketplace to bring alternative medicine services to Buoy’s more than 2M users per month. Representing over 40 categories of therapists such as...
SoulBeing Expands Digital Health and Wellness Platform Powered by OnCall Health
TORONTO – November 19, 2020 – OnCall Health today announced that it has partnered with SoulBeing to deploy its premium virtual care and patient management platform and expand SoulBeing’s digital health and wellness offering with new telehealth capabilities. The new...
SoulBeing Community Newsletter – October 2020
Dear SoulBeing Wellness Community, Fall is fully upon us, complete with turning leaves, cozy candle scents, and all things pumpkin. This is, admittedly, my favorite time of year in New England. My husband and I got married in October in the White Mountains, and the...
The One-Question Daily Meditation That Keeps Me Sane
And the other two that keep me happy in under five minutes each. I have now been doing some version of meditation for almost a decade but have only built it into my daily life within the last year. Even calling my daily practice “meditation” triggers my imposter...
Reflections from our Intern: Preparing for “Normal”
“We are truly living in a crazy time.” “2020 just isn’t it.” “What is happening to the world right now?” These are some phrases that are constantly being thrown around by myself, family and friends. And as dark and pessimistic as it sounds, it truly has been an...
A Skeptic Embarks on 100 Days of Yoga
(OK, it took me 104 days) My Yo-Yo Yoga Journey When I was in high school, I was first introduced to yoga through an advanced dance course I was taking over the summer. This was a new group to me, and I entered the summer with trepidation but excitement for a new...
PRESS RELEASE – Welcome Julia Durgee, MBA!
PRESS CONTACT: Colleen Kavanagh, CEOckavanagh@soulbeing.comwww.soulbeing.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON, MA – June 1, 2020 – Soul Being™, LP, a preventative health technology company, is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Julia Durgee,...
Expanding Your Practice via Telemedicine as a Result of Coronavirus
By Dr. Bill Lewis, MD & MBA, Chief Medical Advisor for Soul Being Difficult and challenging times often create great opportunities to rethink your practice and business model. There are some healthcare thought leaders including myself that think this epidemic, as...
Notes from Our Intern: Mental Health & Covid-19
by Minjoon Choi, Soul Being Intern & Boston College Undergrad I hope everyone is safe and well during this tough time. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected each one of us in different ways, and I’m sure all of us had to experience unexpected changes in our lives....
Healing Coronavirus Symptoms
Li Zheng of Boston Chinese Acupuncture shares a Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture based approach to treating virus-induced inflammation. The coronavirus stimulates our immune system to release a lot of chemicals, which induces a super strong inflammation. A lot of...
Soul Being Community Newsletter – March 2020
Dear Wellness Community,This installation of our Newsletter looks a little different than usual because things are far from “business as usual” for health & wellness service providers, and we know how difficult it is out there right now. The world needs you more...