Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (World Health Organization - July 1946. This definition has not been amended since 1948).

What Is Health Promotion?

“Health Promotion is the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of Optimal Health“.

What Is Optimal Health?

“Optimal Health is defined as a balance of physical, social, emotional, spiritual and intellectual health. Lifestyle change can be facilitated through a combination of efforts to enhance awareness, change behavior and create environments that support good health practices. Of the three, supportive environments will probably have the greatest impact in producing lasting change”. (American Journal of Health Promotion - 1989)

What Is Wellness?

“Wellness is a choice – a decision you make towards Optimal Health.

Wellness is a way of life – a lifestyle you design to achieve your highest potential for well being.

Wellness is a process – a developing awareness that there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now.

Wellness is a balanced channeling of energy - energy received from the environment, transformed within you and returned to affect the world around you.

Wellness is the integration of the body, mind and spirit – the appreciation that everything you do, think, feel, and believe has an impact on your state of health and the health of the world.

Wellness is the loving acceptance of yourself”. (John W. Travis - 2004)

What Is Holism?

“Holism is a place of joy, bliss, love, empowerment, creativity, respect for all life, and peace, a place from which we can meet future challenges with resilience, grace and wisdom. We come from a new integration, having brought parts of ourselves (physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual) together at the deepest level of inner knowing. This leads to integration and balance with every part having significant value and importance.

Holism is the understanding that reality is made up of organic and unified wholes that are greater than the simple sum of their parts. When we experience a Holistic State of Being, we know who we are and no longer feel ashamed or embarrassed by our difficult personal history or the so-called shadow elements of our nature. Of course we will still be discriminating with regard to when and where we share certain aspects of ourselves, but we will experience and radiate the essence of true empowerment and spiritual connectedness, whether we express it verbally or not”. (Dr. Michael Picucci Co-Founder of The Institute for Staged Recovery).