What Does Gardening Have To Do With Holistic Living?
Do you think of gardening when you think of health and wellness? Probably not. When you think of holistic health, you might think of herbs and aromatherapy and the chiropractor. You might picture yoga on a mountain top, meditation, or even acupuncture. You might think holistic health is for those crunchy self-isolated survival people because it’s kind of wacko and out there. Now, I won’t argue that some parts of holistic health may be a little strange and outside of our comfort zones, but I would ABSOLUTELY make the argument that gardening is a part of holistic health! Holistic health holds the perspective that all parts of a human are…
What is Holistic Wellness?
Have you ever heard of Holistic Wellness? I hadn’t heard of Holistic Wellness until I worked in the Family Medicine department at the University of Oklahoma. One course medical students can take is called Food as Medicine and it discusses how our body systems are interconnected, and the food we eat affects every system in our body. When we approach food from a systems perspective, we are applying a Holistic Wellness approach to health. A Holistic Approach to Wellness As I focus on healing (My 2021 Word of the Year), I’m taking a holistic approach to wellness. Holistic wellness is an approach to being healthy that considers the body, mind…
My 2021 Word of the Year
Do you pick a word of the year? Instead of choosing a New Year’s Resolution, I pick one word every year to focus on. This is usually a word I feel that God has laid on my heart to bring growth and maturity in my life, and it’s usually an area in my life that needs to be developed or nurtured so that I become a better person. By mid-December each year I usually know what my word of the year will be and I spend the end of December thinking about and praying about and meditating on that word in order to focus on how to integrate my word…
