DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS
This dimension of wellness focuses on recognizing and managing feelings in healthy ways.
What is Emotional Wellness?
Experts recommend this activity regularly to improve physical and mental health.
What is exercise or physical activity?
This common stress-management technique focuses on slowing and deepening your breathing.
What is deep breathing?
Wellness goals should be realistic and broken into these smaller steps.
What are manageable actions?
This quality helps people recover from challenges and adversity.
What is resilience?
This dimension involves developing a sense of meaning and purpose in life.
What is Spiritual Wellness?
Getting enough of this each night helps improve mood, concentration, and health.
What is sleep?
This involves identifying things you can control instead of focusing on things you cannot.
What is healthy coping?
This acronym is often used to describe effective goals.
What is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound)?
Recovery is often described as a process of change through which individuals improve this.
What is health and wellness?
This dimension focuses on building satisfying relationships and social support.
What is Social Wellness?
This wellness strategy involves eating a balanced variety of nutritious foods.
What is healthy nutrition?
Talking with trusted friends, family members, or professionals is an example of this.
What is seeking support?
Recording your progress toward goals helps increase this.
What is accountability?
Having supportive people in your life strengthens this aspect of recovery.
What is social support?
This dimension includes maintaining a healthy body through exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
What is Physical Wellness?
This practice helps individuals become aware of thoughts and feelings without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
This wellness tool can help track emotions, triggers, and progress over time.
What is journaling?
Celebrating small successes can increase this important factor in behavior change.
What is motivation?
Focusing on strengths instead of weaknesses helps build this.
What is self-confidence?
SAMHSA identifies these eight areas that work together to support overall well-being.
What are the Eight Dimensions of Wellness?
This healthy habit includes scheduling routine medical, dental, and preventive care appointments.
What is preventive healthcare?
SAMHSA recommends creating this personalized strategy for managing difficult situations and stressors.
What is a wellness plan?
When a setback occurs, SAMHSA encourages people to do this rather than give up.
What is adjust the plan and keep moving forward?
SAMHSA’s wellness approach emphasizes that recovery is possible for people experiencing these challenges.
What are mental health and substance use challenges?