The Six Dimensions of Health & Wellness

Knowing  your unique identity and value frees you to focus your efforts, bringing peace and joy to every day life. Personality profiles, gifts, and skills assessments help to indicate the most effective path. Who inspires you? Who are you inspiring? Emotional wellness includes developing the skill of identifying and defining emotions (indicators) to use that information for overall health. Gratitude, reflection, the proper life balance of work, play, and rest are paramount to Emotional Wellness. Topics such as body language, learning to identify and define emotions, creating space, and stress management are important.

Structuring habits and optimizing your environment automates mental wellness and balance in life. Purposeful mental habits work against problems such as decision fatigue, exhaustion, and stress by effectively arranging the timing and order of tasks, and by setting a few, tiny changes at a time which strengthen your identity. The importance of feeding your brain is emphasized to continue to grow and work against an aging neural network. Once Emotional Wellness has been addressed, Mental Habits give the framework to wellness in all six dimensions.

We can’t pick our genes, but we can greatly improve our health with good lifestyle choices such as exercise, good nutrition, enough rest and quality sleep, appropriate medical care, and avoidance of unsafe behaviors and vices. Creating a healthy physical environment provides the things we need and doesn't have  those things we don't. Setting goals and working with a coach facilitates higher levels of physical wellness through accountability, insight, and resources. This dimension looks into genetic predisposition, a healthy view of food and exercise, and incorporating a holistic approach to overall health and wellness. 

Aligning your passion and abilities to serve a greater calling results in increased self-confidence and sense of purpose. Vocation is much more than how a person earns a living. At the highest level of wellness, it’s knowing your God-given identity, living in your passion and calling, and using your gifts and skills in the most effective environment. The DiSC profile and Clifton's Strengths assessments give insight into your functionality within your community and society as a whole. You have been made on purpose, for a purpose, and we all need you to do what you do best! 

Creating and maintaining healthy relationships enhances a sense of belonging and connectedness. Healthy, reliable, active relationships are at the core of social wellness, and learning about effective communication, love languages, and cultural identities reinforce quality relationship with the social groups you are in. What connections need pruning? Which ones need attention and encouragement? Is there enough variety? Boundaries and unique functionality are considered for each relationship.

Establishing healthy financial habits ensures financial wellness throughout a lifetime. Worry-free finances begin with an intentional, balanced money-plan and in focusing on contentment, gratitude, and generosity. Have you taken the time to dream about long-term goals?  Do you have margin in your finances and plans for when the inevitable emergency happens? Financial wellness is as much about planning out the life you want to live as it is mapping out a monthly money plan.