What is Wellness Care?

Wellness care is about achieving and maintaining optimal health. Many people go through life, sometimes for a day, or a week, sometimes for years, feeling "out of it", or lacking vitality. The stresses we have in our lives everyday can wear us down, making it harder and harder to recharge at the end of the day. It becomes all too easy to become unbalanced and drained of energy. There may not be anything "really wrong," we might just be too run down to truly live our best lives.

Wellness care is the remedy for our busy, stressed out lifestyles. This is not primarily care that happens in the clinic, although that plays a role in wellness care, too. Rather, wellness care is primarily focused on little changes in habits and activities that can be done every day. Experiencing ways to maximize health first hand, on a daily basis, the client becomes more pro-active in their own health.

Information and strategies are a cornerstone of wellness care. Learning to communicate with one's body is key to a healthier life. Understanding basics, such as the difference between hunger and thirst, as well as more intense information, like the body crying out for a particular nutrient and how to get that needed nutrition in a healthy way. In learning to read our bodies better, we can make healthier choices that lead to a happier experience.

LIZ JOHNSON