Building A Culture of Wellness: Students Inspire Others to Choose Nourishment, Movement, Gratitude, Nature

Students in Dr Karen Westervelt’s course HLTH 098: Restore, Rejuvenate, Energize were asked to describe and show how they create a Culture of Wellness for themselves or their community. A sampling of their ideas and actions follows. We hope these students’ inspirational stories Restore, Rejuvenate, and Energize YOU!

Blanca Garcia: Spreading Knowledge, Spreading Wellness

I’m a huge fan of health and wellbeing. During the last years, I’ve learned a lot about how to incorporate a healthy diet as a lifestyle. This includes how to make good choices when shopping, when going out for dinner or lunch, knowing what is and what is not good for your body and when …

Molly Hurd: An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away – Exposing Medical Students to Culinary Medicine as a Method of Healing

Food is medicine. It’s a sentence that we hear a lot today, but the idea still has yet to permeate the medical field. Rather than turning to garlic as an anti-biotic or ginger as an anti-nausea agent, we look for the prescription-the drug that will cure all of our ails. And doctors are just as …

Daniel Rainville: Gratitude in School

Introduction Gratitude is an important concept that should be implemented into everyone’s life. Whether a simple reflection of thankfulness or a deep dive into larger scale appreciations, showing gratitude is healthy and needed. In my preschool classroom over the past few months, I have administered activities and practices to teach and create an environment that …

Rosie Caouette: A Culture of Wellness

For my culture of wellness project I decided to tackle the slackline in a community setting. My father used to slackline and since I have always found a desire to learn how but have never actually pushed myself to. I think in many scenarios starting something new is half the battle; whether it be starting …

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