Improving Wellness

Improving your own level of health literacy is important as a Health Coach or Community Health Educator. This course is meant to help increase your health literacy, which is your capacity to understand health information and to apply positive action to your daily routine that will encourage wellness in your life. In this course, we explore strategies to build emotional, mental, and physical wellness as an individual and public health educator while navigating 'Toxic Wellness Culture' to provide a firm foundation for your clients.  At the end of this course, you will be able to identify your own negative and positive health behaviors so that you can be a better health educator. You will be able to identify wellness activities and combine them with action-producing thoughts to establish your very own wellness routine.

1. You will be able to describe the relationship between 3 common dimensions of wellness that contribute to holistic health.

2. You will learn to assess your own health literacy, readiness for changed health behaviors, and create your own wellness assessment for practice or to use with your own clients.

3. You will examine 'Toxic Wellness Culture' and learn strategies that provide supportive measures to clients struggling with the mind-body element to health.

4. You will explore 'The Wellness Continuum' and be introduced to 'The Wellness Lifestyle', Emotional/Mental Wellness, and Physical Wellness as concepts in the first series.