August 2026

The Whole You Monthly

A monthly guide to nurturing your full wellbeing: financial, physical, mental, or social. Each issue delivers timely, seasonal insights and custom articles to help you thrive both inside and outside of work.

Inside this issue

Back-to-school season is the perfect time to evaluate routines and refocus on personal and professional goals. This issue shares tips for keeping your family healthy, investing in your career growth, and finding simple life hacks to maintain work-life balance during a busy time of year.

Back to school: Keep your child (& yourself) healthy

Investing in yourself: A smart career move

Finding work-life balance during the back-to-school rush

FEATURED recipe

After-school snack energy bars

These fruit-and-nut bars are super easy to make and easy to adapt to your own tastes.

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup chopped lightly toasted nuts (one kind or a combination of almonds, walnuts, and pecans). To toast nuts, put them on a small baking sheet in a 350° F oven until they are fragrant and look a shade darker, around five minutes.
3/4 cup dried fruit (one kind or a combination of raisins, currants, dried cranberries, and/or chopped dates, prunes, apricots, and peaches)
3/4 cup quick oats
3/4 cup crispy rice cereal
2 tablespoons unsweetened shredded coconut (optional)
1/2 cup almond or peanut butter
1/2 cup honey or maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

Line an 8-by-8-inch pan with wax or parchment paper and leave enough hanging over the sides so that you can use it to cover the bars later. (You will need a piece a little more than twice the size of the bottom of the pan.)
Put the nuts, dried fruit, oats, rice cereal, and coconut in a medium-sized bowl and toss well.
Put the almond or peanut butter and honey or syrup in a small bowl and microwave until the mixture is softened, about 30 seconds (depending on your microwave). Stir until smooth. Add the vanilla and stir again until smooth.
Pour the warm mixture over the fruit-nut mixture in the medium-sized bowl and mix with a large spoon until well combined.
Dump the mixture into the prepared pan and pat down as hard as you can. You want to make the bars solid (rather than airy). Using the overhanging wax paper, cover the bars completely. Cover the pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours and up to 1 week.
Using a knife, cut into 16 pieces.

Source: healthychildren.org/english/healthy-living/nutrition/chop-chop-magazine/pages/after-school-snack-energy-bars.aspx

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