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For far too long, my experience in health care has heard the use of the word “holistic” as a term to care for the whole person, body-mind-spirit. What you may have experienced in conventional medicine is a document with a full physical assessment that may ask about your religious preference, questions for a depression scale, and if you have someone for social support. Does that experience truly reflect a practice of holism and a true holistic approach to health and wellness? Let’s find out!
Many would agree that to actualize the spiritual, psychosocial, and physical potential is the ultimate goal of wellness. This would require that each and every person should to through a conscious, self-directed, and evolving process to live their best life.
There are 7 generalized areas of wellness:
physical
emotional
intellectual
spiritual
occupational
social
environmental
The paradox is this: to understand these areas in a holistic concept, the 7 wellness areas are addressed individually while keeping in mind that they are parts of a greater whole. To often healthcare operates on a limited definition of “healthy” - striving to merely be free of illness or disease which places physical health on a pedestal, treating the symptoms and not targeting the root cause which may very well fall into one of the other 6 areas.
So…what do you think? Have you experienced a holistic wellness process in you “best life” journey? Now you can.
A holistic approach is integrated into The Cornerstone Coach’s philosophy of care and nurse coach practice.
First, I recognize that you are composed of interrelationships between your bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions and these dimensions are more that the sum of their parts.
Second, while you are an unique individual, synergistic being, you are inextricably interconnected to your environment. You are a fully integrated being able to expand your awareness of how connected you are with your self, others, and your spirituality.
Everything is a relationship.
Everything and everyone is connected.
Every single choice matters.
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