GPS Presents Nurturing the Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope and Courage

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The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present Nurturing the Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope and Courage with best-selling author Kelly McGonigal during two Zoom webinars: at noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16. She will be joined by Katie Hurley at noon and John Duffy at 7 p.m.

Dr. Kelly McGonigal returns to GPS, with her perfect blend of science and storytelling, to help participants increase their happiness through movement. McGonigal will explain why exercise is a powerful antidote to depression, anxiety and loneliness. Participants will learn how to harness the power of exercise to find contentment, meaning and connection.

McGonigal is a Stanford University professor and health psychologist who specializes in understanding mind-body connection. She is the author of “The Willpower Instinct: The Upside of Stress,” and “The Joy of Movement.”

Hurley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, parenting educator, public speaker and writer. She is the author of “The Happy Kid Handbook: How to Raise Joyful Children in a Stressful World.”

Duffy is a clinical psychologist, speaker and best-selling author of “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety.”

This event will be presented virtually.  The link to log in to this webinar from your computer, tablet or phone is: https://glenbard.zoom.us/j/83246417120