2024 Wellness Series Kick-Off: What We Learned from Last Year's Goals to Guide a Healthier Year

Ep 155: We are so excited to kick off the first episode of 2024 with the second season of our wellness series. If you were with us last year, welcome back! We’re happy to have you and can’t wait to bring on more guests who can share their unique perspectives on each dimension.

If you’re new here, check out our 2023 kick off episode “Self-Care Series: The 8 Dimensions of Wellness” that dives deep into each dimension. The dimensions wellness are (according to Dr. Peggy Swarbrick) emotional & mental, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational (career), social, physical and spiritual.

Now that we’ve been aware and practicing this concept for over a year, it has allowed us to look at our own wellness journeys with this lens as a guiding light for creating balance, joy, abundance, nourishment, sustainable routines and greater opportunities. While we are far from experts, or where we want to be ourselves, we hope that by sharing our stories and ideas on the concept, it might inspire and help shape your goals for the year ahead. Either way, we’re grateful you’re here with us!

TAKEAWAYS:

• Building relationships with local banks can lead to better financial opportunities and a sense of community.
• Creating positive customer experiences can contribute to the success of a business.
• Being generous and showing appreciation can have a positive impact on others.
• It is important to appreciate and respect different life paths.
• Setting goals for physical, emotional, mental, intellectual, and financial wellness can lead to personal growth and well-being. Financial wellness involves budgeting, managing expenses, and creating streams of passive income.
• Occupational wellness focuses on career satisfaction, avoiding burnout, and finding life's purpose.
• Social wellness includes maintaining relationships, personal expression, and fostering connections.
• Environmental wellness encompasses living a sustainable life and creating a positive home environment.
• Spiritual wellness involves finding purpose and meaning in life, whether through religion or personal beliefs.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to the Wellness Series

(03:06) Building Relationships with Local Banks

(06:03) Creating a Positive Customer Experience

(09:13) Being Generous and Showing Appreciation

(10:31) Building Community and Successful Businesses

(13:47) Appreciating Different Life Paths

(16:12) Exploring Astro Cartography

(19:11) Reconnecting with Old Friends

(21:30) Physical Wellness Goals

(25:35) Emotional and Mental Wellness Goals

(26:43) Intellectual Wellness Goals

(30:26) Financial Wellness Goals

(40:46) Financial Wellness

(44:34) Occupational Wellness

(50:09) Social Wellness

(51:07) Environmental Wellness

(53:11) Spiritual Wellness

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MENTIONS:

Allison Suspension Story on TikTok

Allison’s ClassPass Link for Bonus Credits

InBody Scan

Intelligent Change’s 5 Minute Journal

Within Journal from Tiana Gidley

Ceara’s Budgeting App - Rocket Money

Wim Hof Breathwork - YouTube

SELF HELP BOOK RECS FOR 2024:

The Four Agreements

The Untethered Soul

The Surrender Experiment

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

The Mountain Is You

Quit Like A Woman

Atomic Habits

How To Be A Bad Ass At Making Money

The Courage to be Disliked

The Power of Now

A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

FUN / NON-FICTION BOOK RECS FOR 2024:

The Midnight Library

Stash by Laura Cathcart Robbins

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (all 3 books in the series)

A Thousand Splendid Suns

It Girl by Ruth Ware

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

It Ends With Us

It Starts With Us

Follow our fellow af listers Hannah’s @loveinalibrary and Emani’s @thatbookishlawyer accounts for all the inspiration and recommendations!

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