Select Keynotes & Workshops
Walking on Earth, contracted to give 20+ international corporate keynotes and team workshops on sustainable high performance
WYLD Leadership, contracted to give 15+ executive retreat keynotes, and individual executive coaching for leaders going through rapid transformation
Esalen, Big Sur, CA - lead the Deep Rest Retreat in collaboration with Elissa Epel, PhD
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat lecture series on stress resilience and contemplative practice - in person (1k+) and online for 55k YouTube subscribers
Soul of Yoga Institute, San Diego, annual teaching lecture on the biological impacts of yoga practice
Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco - New Year No Stress! popular culture lecture series, in person audience of 350+
John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation guest speaker for the “Never Alone: A Global Mental Health Summit”
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health - lecture on “Living with Chronic Stress: What does life look like and how does that impact health?”
Alzheimer’s Association Guest speaker for annual Northern California summit on caregiving stress
Select Publications
UCSF Magazine University of California San Francisco's Magazine article describing the novel scientific concept of deep rest developed by Dr. Crosswell & colleagues and published in a prestigious academic journal.
New Scientist media article reporting on the deep rest theory by Dr. Crosswell & colleagues
Thrive Global, Walking on Earth — How Stress Affects Our Well-BeingHow to Build Resilient Teams
Psychology Today — Mindfulness and Stress: A Tale of Mutual Consequences "Stress can affect our ability to stay present. Mindfulness can help with stress."
BottomLine, Inc — The Restorative Power of Deep Rest "Stress does more than trigger anxiety—it affects the body at a cellular level, exerting a toxic toll on the brain, heart, kidneys and other organs, says health psychologist and stress expert Alexandra D. Crosswell, PhD."
Aging Metabolism and Emotion Center, UCSF — Is All Stress Created Equal? "The concept and experience of stress is multifaceted and varies depending on the context, making it particularly challenging for scientists to study. Over the past decade, AME researchers have conducted a variety of studies that aim to understand how psychological stress can get underneath the skin."
Cascade Business News — Toxic & Positive Stress: How to Maintain a Healthy Balance "Decades of research demonstrates that some forms of stress are toxic for our brains and bodies, while other forms can actually enhance performance."
American Medical Association — Feeling Stressed? Overloaded? There's an App to Help with That. "High levels of work stress have major implications on a person's daily life leading to job strain, which is associated with worse mental and physical health."
American Psychosomatic Society — Fall 2018 Newsletter Article about Dr. Crosswell and colleague's NIH-funded effort to launch the Stress Measurement Network.
Yoga Scientists — How Yoga Reduces Inflammation "A 12-week restorative Iyengar yoga sequence reduced inflammation related gene-expression in breast cancer survivors with chronic fatigue."
USC Center for Health Journalism — As Crisis Mounts, Researcher Explains What Lasting Stress Does to Our Bodies and BiologyExperts Explain How Pollution and Stress Besiege Poor and Minority Communities
Secure Futures Magazine by Kaspersky — Employee Stress Tracking with Technology: Work Wellbeing Win? "Relieving worker stress helps people and business. Now, companies are looking to new tech to help measure, understand and remove strain on employees."
The Verse Newsletter, Q&A — Dr. Alexandra Crosswell on Sustaining Wellbeing in Times of Stress