Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
Author: Tom Rath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595620400

Shows the interconnections among the elements of well-being, how they cannot be considered independently, and provides readers with a research-based approach to improving all aspects of their lives.

Being and Well-Being

Being and Well-Being
Author: J.A. English-Lueck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804771588

This book tells the stories of the workers, the young people who will be future workers, and retired people who feel capitalism in their very bodies, as they work to define what it means to be healthy in America.

Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress

Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress
Author: Alonzo L. Plough
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190080493

Cities and countries around the globe are starting to incorporate a well-being approach by reorienting policies and budgets to benefit people and long-term sustainability. With insights from an international group of scientists, practitioners, and innovators, Well-Being considers the measurement focus of conversations surrounding well-being, then moves beyond to action: shifts in policy, narratives, and power, and alignment with other movements acrosssectors.

Essential Well Being

Essential Well Being
Author: Sara Panton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0735235864

Sara Panton, co-founder of the premium essential oil company vitruvi, shares her knowledge of botanicals and wellness practices to help you live more naturally and elevate the simple moments of your day. Essential oils have been used in self-care practices for centuries. These small bottles of potent extracts can help you carve out simple (even secret) moments every day to reconnect with yourself, breathe deeper, sleep better, and restore energy. In this modern guide, you will find more than 100 do-it-yourself essential oil recipes, rituals, and suggestions--most of which take less than 15 minutes--including: Rosemary and Cedarwood Face Toner: a grounding toner for when you are craving the serenity of a hike in the woods. Honey and Lavender Oil-Balancing Face Mask: a face mask that smells as lovely as it sounds. Fig and Eucalyptus Scrub: a decadent yet super-simple body scrub for pampering yourself. Peppermint and Pink Grapefruit Shower Spray: a natural way to keep your shower ultra-fresh. The book guides you through ways to customize your beauty, body, and home routines--turning them into easy yet sophisticated wellness experiences. Learn how to create a custom face oil for your skin type; do a facial lymphatic massage; make a Mediterranean-inspired botanical foot soak; and blend unique essential oil diffuser aromas for your home. Essential Well Being provides all-natural rituals for morning, afternoon, and evening, and shares how to transform the minutes of your busy day into small spa moments that fill your cup back up. Explore your own potential through the simple act of taking time for yourself.

The Well of Being

The Well of Being
Author: Jean-Pierre Weill
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1250092701

An enchanting, visually arresting, “extraordinary children’s book for adults...that peers into the depths of the human experience and the meaning of our existence.” (Brainpickings.org).

Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept

Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept
Author: Janet M. Page-Reeves
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498559395

Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the fields of health promotion, health research, clinical practice, community engagement, and health system policy. Using a social science approach, the contributors explore the interface among culture, community, and well-being in terms of theory and research frameworks; culture, community, and relationships; food; health systems; and collaboration, policy, messaging, and data. The chapters in this collection provide a broader understanding of well-being and its role as a culturally embedded and multidimensional concept. This collection furthers our ability to apprehend social and cultural constructs and dynamics that influence health and well-being and to better understand factors that contribute to or prevent health disparities.

Promoting Well-Being

Promoting Well-Being
Author: Isaac Prilleltensky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2007-01-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470069872

The only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health, Promoting Well-Being provides you with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions. It is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service professionals, public health professionals, and students in these fields.

How to Be a Well Being

How to Be a Well Being
Author: Andy Cope
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 085708867X

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021 - PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELLBEING*** Make the Most of Every Single Day Uncertainty, instability, pressure, anxiety and now pandemic pandemonium . . . the world is hell bent on robbing us of our wellbeing. It's time to fight back. Twenty-Two Rules for Life that Just work It's time to ditch the tired, old wisdom, and take life into your own hands. We've all fallen for the mantra that 'you only live once,' but it's a big fat lie. The truth is that you get to live – really LIVE – every single day of your life. Based on the wisdom of Positive Psychology, How to be a WELL BEING teaches you to: Strive toward your true potential Stop wasting time and start achieving Focus on what's truly important Rethink your thinking Find meaning and fulfillment Upgrade to YOU 2.0 It's time to raise your personal bar from mental health to mental WEALTH. 'Memento mori' – remember death. No more messing around. No more wasting time. A new world calls for new rules. It's time to re-focus on what's most important and to take massive strides towards your true potential. 'I forget what came before sliced bread, but whatever it was, this is better than that.' —Mylee from Swindon

Feeling Good

Feeling Good
Author: C. Robert Cloninger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2004-05-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0195051378

A study on the elements-- philosophical, scientific, religious, intellectual-- that make up the components of mental and emotional well being in humans.

Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course
Author: Mary Larkin
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1446291200

Using a life course approach, the main chapters in this truly original and enlightening text focus on health and well-being during each of our life stages. A wide range of contemporary literature from disciplines such as public health, sociology, epidemiology and social policy are drawn upon to examine key health and well-being issues in these stages, and to illustrate how health effects can accumulate across the life course. Interactive activities based on the text and on extracts from primary sources are used to encourage critical reflection and debate. Mary Larkin′s book will be essential reading for students on the many courses that need an understanding of health and well-being across all age groups. It will also be an invaluable resource for those in the health and social care sector as well as practitioners working in the field.