Paul Ratte - July 2007
"Wellness is a choice. Everyday you have the choice to have a positive or negative attitude and you have the control to manage your thoughts."
Barry Taylor - March/April 2007
"If I could answer this question in one word, I would say that wellness means balance. Wellness means creating balance in your life between the ways you nurture your body, mind, and spirit."
Renee DeVries - February 2007
"Wellness means creating a balance between physical and emotional health. This includes eating well, managing stress, staying active, and maintaining positive relationships."
"Wellness means being heart healthy through discovering the perfect balance in your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being."
"Wellness means balancing physical and emotional well-being while making healthy choices involving food and exercise."
"Wellness means making a conscious effort and commitment every day to live a healthier, longer, more balanced life."
"Wellness means doing everything I did today and still being able to do it tomorrow. I try to live by the motto, 'If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.'”
"Wellness means being conscious on a daily basis about my health—mentally, physically and spiritually."
"I’ve long had the idea that wellness is more than the absence of disease – it’s a state of well-being and a sense that all is good."
"Wellness is being aware of what it means to take care of one’s self emotionally and physically by eating well and exercising."
"Wellness means staying active and being involved in things that make you happy and feel good about yourself."
"Wellness means having a balanced life of fun, friends, exercise, and relaxation."
"Wellness is a balance of a combination of things... It’s not something you always have, but if you deviate, it’s important to come back and try again. It’s about progress."
" To me, wellness means fulfilling your God-given potential in the way you live and act."
"Wellness is more than just a lack of illness. It’s balancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of your life."
"To me, Wellness mean being able to perform to my full potential, both physically and mentally."
"To me, wellness means making healthy choices about one’s lifestyle. Wellness also means living a life that gives you joy and happiness, and living a life of balance physically, mentally, and spiritually."
"To me, wellness means having balance between eating, exercising, and fun. In fact, I believe fun should be first."
" To me, wellness means being healthy over all: physically, emotionally, and spiritually."
“To me it’s [wellness] the balancing of spiritual, physical,
and emotional health. I really can’t feel healthy unless all three
areas are attended to.”
“To me wellness encompasses a variety of aspects, including physical,
mental (emotional, intellectual, creative), spiritual, social and
financial. I think it’s also important to live in a healthy, well
environment, be it work, home, or play.”
