Your Wellness Baseline
LAB 1.1: Your Wellness Baseline
Name ____________________________________________ Section __________ Date _______
(type, first and last)
Purpose
Completing a wellness profile will help you inventory your strengths and identify areas of wellness on which to focus.
Instructions
1. Describe your strengths for each component of wellness listed here.
Physical wellness: To maintain overall physical health and engage in appropriate illness prevention practices
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Emotional wellness: To feel optimistic and deal constructively with your feelings and self-confidence
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Intellectual wellness: To pursue and retain knowledge, think critically, and make good decisions by identifying problems and finding solutions
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Spiritual wellness: To establish values that give purpose and meaning to your life; to develop faith in something beyond yourself
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Interpersonal and social wellness: To develop and maintain meaningful relationships with a network of friends, family members, and community members
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Environmental wellness: To minimize the negative effects of your behavior on the environment and to feel comfortable with your sense of place
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Occupational wellness: To enhance your contentment with your work and career
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Financial wellness: To manage finances by living within your means and staying out of debt when reasonable to do so
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2. Next, identify your five most important strengths.
CORE WELLNESS STRENGTHS
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3. Indicate where you fall for each dimension on the following continuum.
| Low level of wellness | Physical, psychological, emotional symptoms
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Change and growth | High level of wellness
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| Physical wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Emotional wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Intellectual wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Spiritual wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Interpersonal and
social wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Environmental wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Occupational wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Financial wellness
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☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
