Life is crammed with busyness, screen time, and an abundance of shallow experiences. If you don’t mindfully change your way of thinking and behaving, that’s all your life will ever be.
Foundations of Wellness can help you live a satisfying life—one full of rich and deep experiences. You’ll understand your identity and inner strengths and resources as well as set and move toward meaningful personal goals.
With Foundations of Wellness, you will explore physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual realms of wellness using an evidence-based approach to health and wellness that will help you explore ways to live your life to the fullest. You will examine the seven attitudinal foundations of mindfulness to daily living, delve into wellness resources and dietary needs, discover health check strategies, and learn the keys to making healthy behavioral changes.
Part I. Challenges and Opportunities in Living Well
Chapter 1. Wellness Beyond Health
Chapter 2. Living the Attitudinal Foundations
Chapter 3. Using Mindfulness to Enhance the Experience of Life
Chapter 4. Changing Your Perspective With Your Thoughts
Chapter 5. Social Capital, Connections, and Support
Part II. Physical Dimensions of Wellness
Chapter 6. Stepping Into Physical Activity
Chapter 7. Nutrition
Chapter 8. Sleep Balance
Chapter 9. Health Care Advice to Live Well
Part III. Strategies for a Higher Level of Wellness
Chapter 10. Understanding Addictions
Chapter 11. Sustaining Environmental Health
Chapter 12. Spiritual Foundation
Bill Reger-Nash, EdD, is emeritus professor in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University. He has been a wellness professional for more than 30 years and has served as research coordinator for the Cardiac and Wellness Center of Wheeling Hospital; director of the Bayer Wellness Program in Wellsburg, West Virginia; director of wellness for the Ohio Valley Medical Center; and founding director of wellness for West Virginia University.
Gregory Juckett, MD, MPH, is a professor of family medicine at West Virginia University, Morgantown, where he provides clinical services for the WVU Health Service and also directs the University’s International Travel Clinic. He received his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at Hershey and a master’s degree in public health from West Virginia University.
Meredith Smith Ludden, MS, MA, has master’s degrees in sport and exercise psychology and community counseling from West Virginia University. She has worked as a family and marriage therapist as well as a drug and alcohol counselor. She works for the State of New Mexico as a health educator to decrease the burden of chronic disease in the state.