What is Well-Being?
Well-being encompasses an overall sense of satisfaction with your life. Your overall experience of well-being is influenced by your health in interrelated dimensions we call the Wheel of Well-Being: professional, physical, relational, financial, legal, meaning & purpose, and emotional.
By evaluating and understanding your well being in each dimension, you discover opportunities for improvement. Giving attention to these opportunities in each dimension can positively impact your overall well-being which can have a transformative effect on your contentment and satisfaction in life.
Dimensions of Well-Being
When we take a moment to assess the current situation, the Wheel of Well-Being helps focus on a specific key dimension. The following definitions will provide support as overall balance and well being is explored.
Professional: Finding meaning and fulfillment in your work, favorable compensation, work-life integration, career development and quality relationships with colleagues and leaders.
Physical: Understanding the roles sleep, nutrition, exercise, movement, preventative care and positive behaviors play in promoting well-being.
Financial/Legal: FINANCIAL: Having acumen, stability and a sense of security related to the management of money, credit, debt and assets. LEGAL: Adhering to laws, regulation, and norms established by the legal system by responsibly attending to liabilities and avoiding legal consequences.
Meaning & Purpose: Exploration and understanding of values, beliefs and their influence on our motivations, efforts and sense of connection to the larger community.
Emotional: Ability to recognize and regulate one's emotions, utilize interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, while practicing stress management, self-care, mindfulness and resilience.
Relational: Valuing the importance of human connection while creating, engaging and maintaining meaningful and authentic relationships with self, individuals, groups and our communities.
Learn More
To learn more, you might find it helpful to assess your own well-being. Take this quick assessment to evaluate your health in each dimension of well-being.
We Can Help
Every dimension of the wheel is essential to your personal overall well-being. If you feel one dimension, or several dimensions, are lagging behind or out of balance, we’re here to help. If you have concerns about your Wheel of Well-Being, whether it be in your professional or personal life, talking to a counselor or peer coach as part of your VITAL WorkLife benefits can help you develop a plan to get your Wheel of Well-Being into balance or set goals to build your own pathway toward well being.
Call VITAL WorkLife anytime for the support you and your loved ones need.
- EAP members call 800.383.1908 or access resources through your VITAL WorkLife App
- Physician Well Being Resources members call 877.731.3949 or access resources through your VITAL WorkLife App
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