USAG HUMPHREYS, Republic of Korea — The Far East District Equal Employment Alternative Workplace Supervisor, Steve Brown, organized this yr’s occasions in step with the 2022 theme, “Offering Therapeutic and Selling Hope.” The U.S. Military pays tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and acknowledges the 1000’s of ways in which girls of all cultures have offered each therapeutic and hope all through historical past.
Particular occasions included a Free Respiratory, Meditation Yoga class, March 7; a Digital Girls’s Well being Dialogue with Brian D. Allgood Military Group Hospital Behavioral Well being, March 9; and a Digital Dialogue on Out there Assets given by Military Group Companies (Household and Morale Welfare and Recreation), March 9.
A girls’s well being static show was additionally positioned on the primary flooring of the Far East District headquarters constructing to coach FED personnel and guests.
“I believe these occasions are a good way to rejoice Girls’s Historical past Month, and in addition spotlight a few of the necessary achievements that girls have made all through historical past,” stated Jisun Kang, FED deputy chief of Contracting. “Having our personal FED girls, similar to SoCheung Lee, lead this yoga occasion may be very inspirational. Celebrating girls not solely on a nationwide scale, but additionally recognizing girls in our personal district is one thing that we could be pleased with.”
In accordance with the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies, Yoga is an historic and complicated apply, rooted in Indian philosophy. It started as a non secular apply however has turn into widespread as a method of selling bodily and psychological well-being.
“Yoga goes effectively past the bodily attributes of improved energy and suppleness,” stated Maj. Heathra King, deputy chief of FED Safety, Plans and Operations. “Practising yoga presents a chance to extend consciousness, focus, resiliency, persistence, and gratitude. It’s a journey I’ve been on for 23 years.”
In the course of the Digital Girls’s Well being Dialogue, Lt. Col. Shamecca Scott, the set up director of Psychological Well being, spoke on girls and despair, and a few remedy choices to take care of life stress and trauma.
“Melancholy is a quite common diagnoses in girls, one of many main causes of incapacity worldwide,” stated Scott. “It’s a significant contributor to the worldwide burden of illness. Girls are identified with despair twice as extra as males. Analysis and scientific software present males are impacted and identified, as effectively.
“The underside line is we should prioritize psychological well being for ladies and our subsequent era. In the event you discover you’re experiencing some signs of despair, I encourage you to achieve out to your main well being doctor or conduct well being, in order that we may help get the help you want,” stated Scott.
ACS Household Advocacy Program Specialist, Olivia Bourke, shared prevention instruments and highlighted varied companies that serve the wants of the USAG Humphreys neighborhood.
“Know that you’ve a household at ACS. When you have a necessity or query, we’re the social companies company on the set up,” stated Bourke. “We need to be the place households are and supply service for the wants of the neighborhood.
“We deal with how we will scale back stress and despair by straight addressing the underlying points which can be presenting in a house earlier than it turns into a disaster. It’s necessary to notice that household violence, irrespective of the way it presents, is known as a manifestation of an unmet want,” she stated.
Girls’s Historical past Month honors and celebrates the struggles and achievements of American girls all through the historical past of the USA. It additionally stands as a reminder of the energy the Military has and can acquire by means of having a high-quality and numerous all-volunteer power.