Personal wellness is the state of well-being one has garnered through development of a healthy balance between body, mind, and spirit.  A healthy well-being can have a lasting, positive impact on your health, attitude, energy, and motivation; contrastingly, an unhealthy, unbalanced well-being can destructively impact your health, attitude, energy, and motivation.  I firmly believe in the power of a healthy well-being, and value the wellness of myself and those who are most important to me.  I believe one must nourish their body, mind, and spirit with positive sustenance to sustain their happiness, health, and overall well-being.  Examples of nourishment I require to improve my wellness include laughter, knowledge, exercise, interactions with valued people and animals, sleep, relaxation, and music.  Personal wellness is important to me because I believe a healthy well-being is necessary to live a physically healthy, emotionally happy life, to accomplish life aspirations and goals, and to maintain a positive outlook toward, and appreciation of, life itself.

Working toward my own personal wellness has been a challenge my entire life; balance is incredibly difficult to achieve when juggling various responsibilities that require your time and attention and can detract from time spent on nourishment.  Therefore, I take deliberative actions to ensure that I support my wellness.  I exercise on my own, in group exercise classes, and with a personal trainer to keep active and fit.  I have also learned to take time out each day to relax and re-energize; although this can seem like wasted time when life is hectic, taking ‘me time’ to reenergize helps keep me motivated and productive when later working on tasks and goals.  Additionally, I surround myself with people who fill me with positive energy and support my journey toward a balanced well-being.