While Health is the absence of illness, injury, or disease, Wellness is the pursuit and/or state of individually determined optimal health.

A wellness-oriented lifestyle encourages you to adopt habits and behaviors that promote better health and an improved quality of life. It also involves the recognition that you have physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs, with each dimension being necessary for optimal levels of functioning.

Wellness is a positive approach to living - an approach that emphasizes the whole person. It is the integration of the body, mind, and spirit; and the appreciation that everything you do, think, feel, and believe has an impact on your state of health.

Coaching is a process of effective and meaningful dialog that leads toward the identification, pursuit, and realization of one's goals.

The Wellness Coach focuses on acceptance, guidance, purpose, spirit, planning, goals, opportunities, and motivation. The client is the focus of the action.

The Wellness Coach does NOT analyze, offer advice, provide perscription, make recommendations, strategize, teach, educate, or provide therapy.

The 6 Dimensions of Wellness

Assess Yourself

So, How Are Your Resolutions Going?

It's February. If you are like most people, your New Year's resolutions may not be working out so well. In fact, most resolutions fail, but by reframing them, you dramatically increase the chances for success.

Banish a Negative Mood

What can you do if you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Try these strategies.

What Yoga Research Shows

Despite the challenges of researching the health benefits of yoga, many good-quality studies are beginning to emerge, and the results are interesting.

Flow to Health and Happiness

Have you ever found yourself in a state of complete absorption in a complex and challenging activity that stretches your skills? This wondersul state is called flow.

Strengthening Your Willpower Muscle

Willpower operates like a muscle. It can be strengthened, but also easily exhausted.

How To Make Activity A Habit-And Change Your Life

Help from IDEA Health and Fitness Association.

How to Preserve Your Health With Active Living (At Any Age!)

Research has increasingly shown that the true secret to living "well" at any age is regular physical activity.

Meditating to Reduce Stress

You can control how your body responds to stressful situations by adopting relaxation practices, such as meditation.

Selecting a Wellness Coach

A Wellness Coach can help you make the changes to live your best life.

Walking the Labyrinth

Labyrinths can be found in spas, churches, medical centers, parks, prisons, and backyards. Could this centuries-old meditation help you explore the mind-body connection?

Taming Stress

Do you feel completely overwhelmed by all the demands in your life? Don't worry. You can learn to manage and release stress with a few wise strategies.

Creating a Sacred Space

Are you often so focused on the needs of other people that you ignore your own needs? By allocating an area in your home or yard as a sacred space, you can give yourself a place for quiet reflection.

Alcohol's Effect on Health

Does drinking alcohol help your health or is it better to just say no?

Enjoying an At-Home Spa Day

Rejuvenate yourself with these at-home spa tricks of the trade.

Meditation: Just the Basics

Discover what meditation is, the benefits, and a few examples of meditation styles.

Increasing Your Sleep Savvy

Sleep Deprived? Try these insights.

The Science of Self-Monitoring

Recording aspects of behavior and progress toward goals -- self-monitoring -- enhances success in making life changes.

Boosting Your Body Image

We are not born with a body image -- the way we feel about how we look is learned and influenced by family, friends, and the media.

Relaxation 101

Learning how to relax can counteract stress responses such as anxiety, tension, and hyperalertness. Try these techniques to learn how to relax.

Midlife Emotions and Weight Gain

Physical and psychological changes during the midlife years can lead to unwanted weight gain. Here's how to more easily navigate through your middle years.

Eat Less to Live Longer?

In this "Supersized" world, eating fewer calories just might be the prescription for a longer, healthier life.