Spiritual wellness is defined as expanding a sense of purpose and meaning in life, including one’s morals and ethics. It may or may not involve religious activities.

Goals for your Spiritual Wellness

• Explore and clarify your personal values
• Become aware of how values develop and change from life experiences
• Search for meaning in your own life
• Develop integrity by acting in ways that are consistent with your values

Social wellness is defined as developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system within your personal and/or professional relationships.

Goals for your Social Wellness

• Develop the ability to create and maintain close friendships
• Feel comfortable interacting with diverse individuals and groups
• Become aware of your responsibilities for the welfare of different communities
• Understand and accept those with a different life experience, etc.
• Work toward becoming a responsible citizen

Physical wellness consists of recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods, and sleep, as well as preventing illness and injury or managing chronic health conditions.

Goals for your Physical Wellness

• Understand how and why your body works
• Feel comfortable with your physical appearance
• Develop well-balanced and healthy eating habits
• Become aware of how a lack of sleep, stress, and non-activity affect your body
• Become aware of how food, beverages, drugs, chemicals, additives, and caffeine affect your body
• Engage in regular movement to improve flexibility, strength, aerobic, and cardiovascular health
• Develop and cultivate leisure activities
• Seek medical care when needed for illness, injury and preventative care

Intellectual wellness is defined as recognizing one’s creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills.

Goals for your Intellectual Wellness

• Strive to be open to new experiences and ideas in all areas of your life
• Develop a love for learning and philosophy for “life-long learning”
• Expand your ability to create, develop, analyze, critique, concentrate, understand, evaluate, problem solve, predict, comprehend, etc.
• Feel competent in intellectual and academic activities by improving your skills in academics, studying, time management, stress management, note taking, listening, and public speaking.

Emotional wellness is defined as coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships.

Goals for your Emotional Wellness

• Become more aware of your feelings and accept them as valid indicators of what you are experiencing
• Develop the ability to experience and appropriately express a wide range of emotions such as humor, joy, fear, anger, frustration, appreciation, sadness, etc.
• Develop assertiveness and confrontation skills
• Develop positive feelings about yourself by instituting a healthy self-esteem and self-concept
• Develop the skills to handle stress, irritations, crises, etc.
• Develop, establish, and maintain intimate and loving relationships

Occupational (vocational) wellness is defined as gaining personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work, whether that be academic work while in school, college, or a job.

Goals for your Occupational Wellness

• Increase your awareness of the wide variety of major/career opportunities available to you
• Challenge societal sex role and other barriers that limt major/career choices
• explore your interests, skill, and values and needs and how they relate to major/career choice
• Choose a direction that reflects your values, preferences, interests and skills
• understand the relationship between your career choice and other parts of your life such as with your family, spouse/partner, leisure activities, friends
• Develop effective job-related skills in assertiveness, confrontation, feedback, time management, active listening, motivation, etc.
• Understand how many people change their career directions many times throughout their lives