If you don’t make time for wellness, you’ll have to make time for illness.

What Is Wellness?

Wellness is a modern word with ancient roots. The key tenets of wellness as both preventive and holistic can be traced back to ancient civilizations from the East (India, China) to the West (Greece, Rome). In 19th-century Europe and the United States, a variety of intellectual, religious and medical movements developed in parallel with conventional medicine.

With focus on holistic and natural approaches, self-healing and preventive care, these movements provided a firm foundation for wellness today. Wellness-focused and holistic modalities have gained more visibility from the writings and thought leadership of an informal network of physicians and thinkers, including Halbert Dunn, Jack Travis, Don Ardell, Bill Hettler, and others.

As these have evolved, proliferated, and gone mainstream, they have informed the healthy-living, self-help, self-care, fitness, nutrition, diet, and spiritual practices that have become a flourishing wellness movement in the 21st century.

We share this information about wellness because we encounter the term “wellness” tossed around rather loosely. Quite frankly, we find it confusing, we’re guessing you may too. 

As certified health & wellness coaches, we hope to offer some clarity on what wellness is and why it’s worthy of your time, energy and attention. 

Coaching is an authentic process during which coach and client work collaboratively to identify and clear blockages, things weighing on you, and what’s holding you back from achieving what you desire.

Tell us, what does wellness mean to you? Have you ever worked with a Health/Wellness coach before? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.👇🏼

We invite you to listen the Soul Full of Wellness podcast to learn more!