I. Occupational . Occupational Wellness Is "The Ability

Friendships change over time. Some people stay your friends forever others are only temporary. This essay shows how my friendships have changed between Elementary school and Middle school, between middle and high school, and how some have stayed the same over the course of my education.

Emotional Wellness – To be able to accept and control your feelings. To have a good self-esteem and to not stress or be disappointed. You have to accept what you have done and be happy with what you have done. You need to find solutions to your problems to have a good emotional wellness and if you need to ask people for help to solve your problems then ask.

Since these things are achieved through occupation, through doing things, the close link between health and occupation becomes clear (Wilcock, 2001).  From an occupational perspective, doing things provides a sense of purpose and fulfilment and leads to a sense of well-being (Crepeau et al, 2009).

I am in the middle for occupational wellness because I am barely in the process to start college and I still don’t know what I would want to major on. I have an idea for either nursing or business but I would like to take a class on both to see which is the one I would want to do for the rest of my life. As of now I have two jobs and on one I have more responsibilities so it makes me have an idea of how later on life it will be with my career.

Like many people I went through high school with the same group of friends from middle school. We were all extremely close and acted like family. Upon graduating, we all realized that we wouldn’t see each other as much, especially the people that went to LSU, ULL and Emory and even LA Tech. We had lost those close-knits relationships we formed for over 7 years. Many people would be upset over this but it showed me who my real friends were and they are my new-found sisters in the sorority I joined and my best friend from sixth grade.

Emotional fitness: builds one’s authenticity, believability and resilience, expanding one’s circle of trust and one’s capacity for listening, managing conflict and making the most constructive discontent. It includes emotional hardiness and flexibility

Occupational wellness is about finding a profession that you believe in, it is very important to find a career that will give you both personal and financial satisfaction. I’d like to share three elements, which I asked myself to find my career; they are “what you like to do”, “what you excel in” and “what you can do”

Some I lost touch with, and others still remain friends. Also, throughout the years I had made new friends from school. In my family, they were always happy to see me and hear the stories from my school and different activities I did in school like sports, clubs, and trips. Over the next two years, my stories and my family’s reaction seemed the same. I found myself lying to my family to make up a good story for everyone to listen. Along with stories I’ve told I had to lie to hide the truth. At the same time, I noticed nothing at home had changed just the older people got including myself.

I remember the good old days, when there were so many people that I hung out with. Now it's like they vanished into thin air. Though the one person that I hung out with for so long was Matthew Whitesell. He and I were best friends since we were in preschool. We played with each other and played video games like call of Duty, and etc.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had the same group of friends, but coming into high school I met a lot of new people. I met some of my best friends here and my boyfriend.I’ve reached out to a lot of different people I didn’t really expect to be friends with. I learned that you really can’t judge a book by a cover and that probably sounds cliche, but some of the people I thought I’d never get along with became some of my really good friends.

The program I attended was titled “Building Life Satisfaction: Emotional First Aid and Bouncing Back”. The program was hosted by Helene Farr, a pre-doctoral intern at the UNCC counseling center. The purpose of this event was to help students in gaining an understanding of the importance of attending to their emotional well-being so they can be better prepared for life’s stressful events while being able to not only bounce back from hardships but to thrive, also. I chose this event because, as a college student, I can certainly relate to being “emotionally wounded” by stress and other college-related factors.

The friends one has in elementary school may differ when they transition to middle school and high school. Similarly, as they go off to college, being that they know no one, they are forced to make new friends. Then, because there is

Positive psychology, which has emerged recently, is the scientific study of human thriving. Psychology traditionally focuses on dysfunction—on people with mental illness or other psychological problems and how to treat them. Positive psychology, by contrast, is a relatively new field that examines how ordinary people can become happier and more fulfilled. In his 1998 APA presidential address, Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, argued that psychology had become too focused on curing mental illness according to a disease model, and that, for all intents and purposes, it had become a “victimology” (Seligman, 1998). What was needed, he averred, was a new “science of human strengths,” a positive psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).

Before exploring this topic, a few key words must be clearly understood. The definition of emotional health, provided by the Mental Health Foundation, is “A positive sense of wellbeing which enables an individual to be able to function in society and meet the demands of everyday life…” (BelongTo). This has a great deal to do with positivity and a person’s view of the world surrounding them. Without proper emotional health, a person’s world can fall apart, similarly to if one has poor mental health. Mental health is described as “…a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the

I had changed friends but I believe it was too late then, I wanted to take everything back from those school ages. At the time, all the way up until graduation I had the same friends. 7 years later I have not one friend from school anymore. It seems that everyone went their separate ways, and I felt at this time a lot of the things I did were stupid and un thought of.