Grad Girl Wellness

What if 30 miles could help you feel more grounded this summer? 👟☀️
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Graduate school, work, and life can leave little room for ourselves. That’s why we created the Grad Girl Wellness 30 Miles in 30 Days Challenge — a space to prioritize movement, accountability, and wellbeing together.
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Throughout the month of June, grad girls from all over the world will walk, run, and move their way through 30 miles at their own pace while being encouraged by a supportive community.
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✨ Beginner friendly
✨ Virtual participation
✨ Prizes
✨ Community motivation + accountability
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Whether you’re restarting your wellness journey or simply looking for consistency this summer, this challenge is for you.
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Challenge begins June 1st!
Tag a friend and sign up using the link in bio 🤎
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After 3 cycles, the common refrain from my therapist was “don’t take it personal.” 💚
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“Of over 300 responses by job applicants, we did not receive a single positive comment about the process, despite the fact that 58% of our participants received at least one job offer. Our data suggest that baseline thresholds exist for those more likely to receive a faculty job offer, but that many different paths can lead to a job offer. This variety of paths likely reflects both the preparation done by applicants and the different evaluation criteria used by individual search committees.”

(Fernandes JD, Sarabipour S, Smith CT, Niemi NM, Jadavji NM, Kozik AJ, Holehouse AS, Pejaver V, Symmons O, Bisson Filho AW, Haage A. A survey-based analysis of the academic job market. Elife. 2020)

💚 “Collectively, the demand for higher productivity often increases the workload on existing graduate students. A survey of graduate students in 2019 showed that over 76% of them worked 41+ hours per week, with nearly 25% of students working more than 61+ hours a week (4).”

(SenthilKumar G, Mathieu NM, Freed JK, Sigmund CD, Gutterman DD. Addressing the decline in graduate students’ mental well-being. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Oct 1;325(4):H882-H887.)

✨ COMMUNITY + MOVEMENT ✨

As part of the 6th Annual Grad Girl Wellness 30 Miles in 30 Days Walk/Run Challenge, we’re hosting an in-person meetup in Philadelphia! 👟💌

📍 Meet us at 30th St Station
🗓 Saturday, June 13
⏰ 10:00 AM

We’ll walk together to Reading Terminal Market while building community, getting our steps in, and connecting with aspiring grad students, current graduate students, and advanced degree holders who believe wellness matters too 💪🏾🎓

Whether you’re deep in dissertation writing, preparing applications, navigating academia, or figuring out your next steps (pun intended 🤭)— you don’t have to do it alone.

Come walk, connect, laugh, and move with us 💖

Tag a friend and meet us there!

🔗link in bio

You made it! 💚
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For all the grad girls who have been stuck behind their desks this semester…. 👀
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Starting on June 1, we’re bringing back the annual
30 miles in 30 days walk/run challenge. 👟
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🔗Sign up using the link in bio
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Stay tuned for more details on prizes, our in person meet up (Philadelphia on June 8), and much more!
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GGW is hosting something for all the grad girls who have been stuck behind their desks…. 👀
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Starting on June 1, we’re bringing back the annual
30 miles in 30 days walk/run challenge. 👟
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🔗Sign up using the link in bio
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Stay tuned for more details on prizes, our in person meet up (Philadelphia on June 8), and much more!
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💚 “The term chronic comparisons describes the habit of constantly making comparisons, which can lead to a life of anxiety, judgmental thinking, and self-doubt. One study of over 7,000 individuals showed that a “comparison orientation” — having the tendency to make social comparisons more often — is related to negative feelings like irritability, nervousness, shame, and distress.
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One approach to minimizing the tendency to constantly self-compare is to limit the amount of information you take in — a key ingredient of comparisons — by disabling notifications for the morning, reducing your time at the watercooler, or not seeking out information about colleagues.”
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Michael Matthews, Thomas Kelemen. “A Better Way to Compare Yourself to Colleagues.” MIT Sloan Management Review, 12 Feb. 2025, sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-better-way-to-compare-yourself-to-colleagues/.