Wellness Journeys

The wellness wheel provides a visual image of the eight areas of an individual’s life that contribute to their health. These needs can help prevent future health problems and make healthier choices. As a human being, social needs is important for interacting with others, occupational wellness is important because developing occupational stratification will allow me to communicate my values through involvement in occupational activities that are gratifying for me. Lastly, physical wellness is important for sleep, food and exercise.

For a fulfilling, healthy balanced life Kevin M Norris confirms in his article “Finding Balance: 6 Dimensions of Wellness” that following the six dimensions could lead to improvement in unhealthy lifestyles. Norris expresses that when you evolve the six dimensions of wellness it could be used as a model or a guide. Norris begins to list off the 6 dimensions which are physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, environmental and social. When Norris begins to explain of each dimensions balance each other he states, “Each dimension forms a piece of a lifestyle pie; without one piece, there is a void, a missing link that imbalances the remainder of the dimensions’. In order to take control or to achieve a goal to become healthy and maintain

Equality in everything, including health issues, has to be the main feature of the modern world. National health programs of the US operate to ensure adequate and timely treatment of all citizens. Nevertheless, health indicators of some racial and ethnic groups are significantly worse than of the white Americans. It applies to the Hispanic Americans and significantly affects their lives. The current health status of this minority is far from satisfactory and needs improvements through existing programs and the development of new approaches to address

The next interview was of an Asian American family. This is a military family, the father meet, married and brought back to the United States a 23 year old Vietnamese woman. Family is vital to this Asian American family and respect is expected. Over the years, the mother has adapted to some western ways but maintains certain culture values and passed them on to her children. Diet plays a huge part in their health maintenance and protection. The diet manly consists of rice, vegetables and fish. Along with diet, exercise and staying fit is a big part of their ethnic background. The mother stated to me “Don’t you see all the Asian ladies at the gym? We take pride in staying fit.” To them their body is a temple and needs to be cared for. Spirituality of mind body and soul is another significant part of their health. Partaking in meditation, massage therapy and acupuncture are ways to rid the body of imbalance and place it back in balance to fight illness and diseases. Illness may be attributed to organic or physical problems an imbalance of yin and yang, an obstruction of chi (life energy), a failure to be in harmony with nature, punishment for immoral behavior (in this or past lives), or a curse placed by an offended spirit ("Vietnamese Cultural Profile — EthnoMed," n.d.). While this family is westernized in some ways, by going to the doctor and

Wellness Coach called Robin Stevens HudVash Field Manager to ask for assistance in retaining information on Richard Bellamy. Ms. Stevens was not able to gain information from the Manhattan VA via phone either. Ms. Stevens expressed to Wellness Coach Teresa Cain that she will be going to the Manhattan VA today or tomorrow (11/28/16 or 11/29/16) to see how Mr. Bellamy is doing since he submitted himself into the hospital. Mr. Bellamy stated that he had lice, was using crack cocaine, fell under a depression, and informed the hospital that he was evicted. Wellness Coach also called Detective Newton at the 75th precinct to update him on the location of Richard Bellamy. However Dectective Newton did not pick up, wellness coach left a voicemail.

The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled 'Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking' (NHS Health Scotland 2003). It will be referred to as the 'initiative' or the 'leaflet' throughout this assignment.

Life expectancy in the United States is below most of the developed world and yet Americans pay the most for healthcare (CIA). The reason that Americans are so low on the list is their dependency on conventional medicine. Whereas other countries take a holistic approach to overall health and wellness, preventing diseases before they become a problem, the American system of medicine treats illnesses and the symptoms without preventing further damage. The result is an entire society dependent on drugs and surgery and constantly living in pain.

Throughout this assignment the author will demonstrate knowledge of health promotion and its link in addressing health needs. The role of the nurse in delivering health promotion at primary, secondary and tertiary levels will be discussed and how national policy influences that delivery on the chosen topic of smoking. Barriers to health promotion will also be discussed and how these barriers could be overcome.

Health promotion is defined as the provision of information and/or education to individuals, families and communities that encourage family unity, community commitment, and traditional spiritually that makes positive contributions to their health status (Definition of wellness.Com). It is our job as providers to promote health by any means necessary to improve community wellness.

Have you shunned incorporating fitness and healthier eating into your routine because you’ve always regarded such dedication as something *other people do*? Appealing to all fitness levels is how we approach the needs of our readership because even those with just a few moments per day can utilize some of the guidelines we endorse. It is never too late or too soon to assimilate better living through exercise and diet. While not everyone aspires to be an Olympian, there is a bit of a health nut in all of us, and finding our inner athlete is most readily accomplished by defining what physical activities are enjoyable on a personal level. If a regimen is not at least somewhat pleasurable and easy to work into a busy schedule, it will likely

Health coaching is client-oriented and works to establish behavior changes in order to improve the quality of a person’s life (Kivela et al., 2014). This paper will describe the purpose/need of health coaching, effective techniques involved in the coaching process, and its impact on adults with obesity. It will also identify how the effectiveness of health coaching on obesity will impact the author’s coaching business, methods of practice, and the author personally.

I’m so excited to introduce you a new series here at Downshiftology - Everyday Inspiration! If you’re anything like me (and I have a pretty good feeling you are!) you’re motivated by inspirational quotes, words of wisdom, mantras, positive affirmations and all around happy thoughts. Words that light you up and spread a little love, kindness and encouragement. Words that resonate deep in your core - and by that, I mean you’re instantly shaking your head in agreement, while saying to yourself, “Oh, I so needed to hear that today!”

Health and wellness are increasingly being used. Health actually is more to a medical and describes the mental and physical state of a person. It will reflect a lack of disease of a person. In the contrary, wellness is defined as the overall process of maintaining a state of good health of a person. Wellness involves conscious decisions on the part of the individual, while health simply describes a person's condition of the body. However, the combined phrase health and wellness showed the meaning of the state of complete physical, mental, emotional health and social wellbeing, and it is when a person is absence of disease.

There will be five dimensions explained under this topic. Which are: Financial dimension, physical dimension, intellectual dimension, emotional dimension and social dimension. Wellness is substantially more than only physical wellbeing, activity or sustenance. It is the full coordination of conditions of these five dimensions.

Physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, spiritual, and environmental wellness are all considered the six dimensions of wellness with occupational wellness being the possible seventh. But what are these exactly? And how do they apply to me and my health and wellness?