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Box of Delight | Spirit | The Well | Wellness Network
Finding your path from illness to wellness.
The Well offers insights and information from experts in our community who work helping others to achieve their wellness goals. Commentary will include nutrition, exercise and spirituality.
So many of us assume that wellness is simply the absence of disease. But wellness is, in fact, so much more. Dr. Martin Rossman tells of a woman concerned about her garden who sought advice from experts. While the first expert correctly diagnosed the problem as an infestation of insects that could be treated with a pesticide, a second gardener advised that the pesticide alone would not make the plants healthy. Healthy plants require water, fertilizer, pruning, and cultivation. Our wellness also requires more than just treating physical illness. We must pay attention to exercise and nutrition, to balancing work and self-care, to managing stress and fostering creativity, to developing a sense of humor and building good relationships, to finding meaning and purpose, and to nurturing our spirits. Wellness comes from being mindful of our bodies, minds, and spirits. Being well means that we do more than simply treat disease; it means being proactive and intentional about balancing and nurturing all the aspects of ourselves in order to become whole.
-Terry Moore Painter is an Artist and Chaplain at Moses Cone Regional Cancer Center in Greensboro, NC. She works one-on-one each day as friend and confidant to cancer patients and their families.
To learn more about life enriching programs offered through RCC contact Terry.
