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Talking With Dr. Toy: Assessing Workplace Well-being Is Important

Talking With Dr Toy

When thinking about our wellness, an area that is often neglected is our workplace well-being. We often just view our workplace as a mere job that represents a means to an end. However, we often spend more time with our co-workers and in our workplace than our families and in our home. As a result, it is important to assess your workplace well-being. Workplace well-being has been defined as, "the ability to pursue your interests, values, and life purpose in order to gain meaning, happiness, and enrichment professionally." www.talkingwithdrtoy.com

Talking With Dr. Toy: National Wellness Month--Social Well-being Part 2

Talking With Dr Toy

August is National Awareness month which includes various types of well-being. Social well-being includes developing and maintaining meaningful relationships and social support. Due to past traumatic experiences, unhealthy and toxic relationships, and disappointments, cultivating this type of well-being can be most difficult. Although complex and difficult, it is a necessary aspect of tending to our wellness. Tune into Part 2 of taking care of our social-wellbeing. www.talkingwithdrtoy.com.

Talking With Dr. Toy: National Wellness Awareness Month--Social Well-being

Talking With Dr Toy

August is National Wellness Awareness month which includes aspects of taking care of our holistic health. Social well-being is an aspect of wellness and has been defined as "the ability to communicate, develop meaningful relationships with others, and maintain a support network that helps you overcome loneliness." The former surgeon general pronounced loneliness and isolation as an epidemic that "represent profound threats to our health and well-being." A passage states that it is not good for man to be alone and "though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three...

Talking With Dr. Toy: National Wellness Awareness Month--Physical Wellness Matters

Talking With Dr Toy

August is National Wellness Awareness month which includes tending to our holistic health. Physical wellness matters and has been defined as "The ability to improve the functioning of our body through healthy living and good exercise habits." Physical wellness entails more than just body image which is the sole focus by some individuals. Physical wellness focuses on the actual functioning of our bodies. Improving our physical wellness includes the following: Prioritization, Assessment, and Action. .

Talking With Dr. Toy: National Awareness Month--Emotional Wellness

Talking With Dr Toy

August is National Awareness Month which in compasses many facets of wellness that include the following: Emotional, physical, social, workplace, and societal well-being. Emotional well-being has been defined as the "ability to practice stress management and relaxation techniques, be resilient, vulnerable, boost self-love, and generate the motions that lead to good feelings." Emotional wellness is essential to improving overall health.

Talking With Dr. Toy: National Wellness Awareness Month--Please Take Care of Yourself

Talking With Dr Toy

A passage states, beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in good health, even as your soul is prospers. August is National Wellness Awareness month with the purpose of identifying ways to prioritize our wellness which includes the following areas: emotional, social, physical, societal, and workplace. Why dedicate a month to remind us to take care of our wellbeing? Because "it’s easy in our society to prioritize meeting the needs of a job or loved ones before tending to and meeting our own needs."

Talking With Dr. Toy: Oh to Be Comforted!

Talking With Dr Toy

There's a passage that states, "God is the Father of all comfort." This passage denotes that there's a need to be comforted. Comfort has been defined as "the easing or alleviation of a person's feeling of grief or distress." It seems pretty simple to accept the need to be comforted, but some struggle with this need because of the stigma of weakness and vulnerability. Some have been conditioned in the dysfunction that to be comforted denotes weakness which brings about shame. To be comforted is to be human. www.talkingwithdrtoy.com

Talking With Dr. Toy: Encourage Yourself

Talking With Dr Toy

There's a verse that states, "David was distressed...and He encouraged himself in the Lord." There are times in your life where you may also be distressed due to a number of transitions, issues, and relationship losses. The distress may be all too consuming and you're unsure of ways to navigate it. Please take time to draw from a well of encouragement so that you can encourage yourself in times like these as well as encourage others. Hold on, hang on, and stay encouraged.

Talking With Dr. Toy: Turn On the Lights to Dispel the Darkness

Talking With Dr Toy

There's a song entitled "Walk in the light". Light illuminates and provides clarity of vision in the midst of darkness. Darkness is symbolic of some hard and difficult times that may represent what many are experiencing in this season. Darkness can be all consuming, overwhelming, and possibly cultivate a spirit of hopelessness and helplessness. However, there's a dawn that pierces through the darkness which encourages us to turn on the lights. Turning on the light is an intentional act of inspiration and resistance. .

Talking With Dr. Toy: How to Manage Energy Vampires Part 2

Talking With Dr Toy

There may be some individuals in your life that are energy vampires. Sometimes, these people are friends and families and it may be difficult navigating such relationships. There are several types of energy vampires and it will be beneficial to devise ways to effectively identify and manage these relationships. Managing these relationships are certainly a form of self-care and self-preservation. www.talkingwithdrtoy.com

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