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Social well-being is your ability to create and maintain positive relationships, connect with others and find a sense of belonging. Both the quality and quantity of your social relationships can impact your mental health, physical well-being, and health behaviors – in either a positive or negative way. In today’s podcast, we'll become more AWARE of the impact of social well-being and loneliness, discuss how to ACTIVATE healthy connections, and finally, learn what healthy behaviors we can ADOPT to improve social well-being and help combat loneliness.

Financial well-being is having a sense of security in your financial status and little to no financial stress. It’s understanding your financial situation, feeling prepared to deal with unexpected changes, and being able to work toward future financial goals. The five dimensions of well-being are all connected and impact one another – your financial well-being included. If you’re overly stressed or worried about your finances, it can negatively impact your physical and emotional health, and vice-versa. In today’s podcast, you’ll become more AWARE of how financial stress affects our health, how to ACTIVATE a plan to help reduce financial stress, and how to ADOPT behaviors that will help you meet your financial goals.

Emotional Health is being aware and in control of your thoughts and feelings. In addition, it’s creating and maintaining positive relationships, feeling connected, and having a sense of belonging.  Emotional health is what helps you manage things like happiness or even stress. It also helps you be productive, and make meaningful contributions to your community. In today’s podcast, we’ll focus on a topic that everyone deals with – stress.

Environmental well-being is about how your surrounding environment, like your home and work, affects your overall health, and also how your habits and lifestyle affect your environment. We’ll be talking about how you can become more AWARE of your environment, how to ACTIVATE a healthier environment and finally, how to ADOPT behaviors that can make being environmentally-healthy a lifelong habit.

The first dimension of health and well-being is physical health. When people say ‘physical health’ we tend to think of diet, exercise, or disease. But we’re going to explore a sometimes-overlooked area of our physical health. Our guts. We’ll talk about how you can become AWARE of your gut health, how to ACTIVATE a healthy-gut diet, and finally, how to ADOPT healthy behaviors to maintain ongoing gut health.