CJE Academy

Past presentations:

• A Holistic Approach to Positive Aging: Mind, Body, and Spirit

Rabbi Michelle Stern, CJE’s Manager of Spiritual and Religious Life, and Dr. Eitan Kimchi, a geriatric psychiatrist at University of Illinois Chicago, as they share how we can age with dignity, resilience, and purpose in the face of changes to our minds and bodies. Learned ways to empower yourselves and others, and to cultivate peace through this holistic approach to aging.

• The Future of Elderhood: More and Better

Join us for an intriguing presentation by Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, a noted Harvard-trained geriatrician and author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life.

For decades, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet, at the very moment humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied. This discussion challenges not only the way we look at aging but also the way we think and feel about medicine and what it means to be a human being across the lifespan.

• 7 Steps to Reclaiming Sexual Pleasure after 50, Partnered or Solo

with Joan Price who is an advocate for ageless sexuality. Participants learned the facts about how aging affects sex as well as easy and practical strategies for revving up your arousal and pleasure. With Joan’s help, they designed 7-step plan for bringing the zing back into your sex life, partnered or solo.

About our guest speaker: Joan Price is an advocate for ageless sexuality. She’s known by the media as the voice of senior sex. She is the author of four books about sex and aging, including the award-winning Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and Sex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved. At age 77, Joan continues to talk out loud about senior sex—partnered or solo. Find Joan and her books, webinars, and blog at joanprice.com

• Sleep Problems and Sleep Solutions presentation

with Dr. Jennifer Mundt about the most common sleep disorders and practical suggestions for how we can improve our sleep. Dr. Mundt is an expert in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), the gold standard treatment for insomnia, and provided an overview of CBT-I strategies. She also discussed whether there is scientific evidence that the popular supplement CBD can improve sleep.

About our guest speaker: Dr. Jennifer Mundt is a sleep psychologist at the Northwestern Sleep Disorders Center. She provides behavioral treatment for sleep disorders such as insomnia and nightmares. Dr. Mundt received her PhD in clinical health psychology from the University of Florida, where she specialized in the treatment and research of sleep disorders and chronic pain. She completed her psychology residency at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at the Durham VA Medical Center.

• How to Deal with Stress During COVID-19

This is a time of tremendous stress. Social distancing has all of the makings of a high-stress, low mental health situation, not to mention the deadly virus lurking around every corner. Stress is the body’s way of protecting you from real or perceived threats, but in high doses, it is hard on your body, your brain and your life.

During this her presentation, Dr. Sherrie All, an expert in brain health and stress, introduced 5 key ways to better deal with stress during social distancing.

You can view complete recording of ZOOM presentation here.

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