To support a healthy learning environment for students, UNG Wellness and Health Promotion offers a variety of services and programs for all UNG students.
The programs and services offered support students’ overall wellness through health education workshops and events including, but not limited to:
Good health and wellness are cornerstones to achieving success in college and beyond. Wellness is an active process of pursuing health, personal growth, and a fulfilling life.
The eight dimensions of wellness are a mutually interdependent, holistic approach to achieving well-being in your life. It is important to address each dimension, equally, to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Over time, disregard of one dimension can negatively affect other dimensions and ultimately overall health.
Emotional wellness involves being aware of everyday feelings and emotions, both positive and negative, and learning to cope with the challenges life brings. Emotional wellness is the ability to accept your feelings and have an optimistic approach to allow growth from negative experiences.
Tips to Achieve Emotional Wellness
Environmental wellness involves living in harmony with the physical and social environments that surround you. Your environment and the way you interact with it can have a huge impact on your overall health. You should understand the world around you, how you live in harmony with it and the impact your actions have. Living an environmentally well lifestyle is respectful to your environment, while working to ensure the environment you work, live and play in are safe.
Tips to Achieve Environmental Wellness
Financial wellness is learning how to successfully manage financial expenses. Money plays a critical role in our overall well-being and being able to manage it will positively impact your health, your academic/work performance and your future. Financial decisions you make now can have a huge impact on your life for many years to come. Everyone’s financial situation is different, so it is up to you to find the right mix that works for you.
Tips to Achieve Financial Wellness
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Intellectual wellness is having a curiosity and strong desire to learn throughout your lifetime. It is the ability to open your mind to new ideas and experiences that can be used as an opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills and help you discover the potential for sharing your gifts with others.
Tips to Achieve Intellectual Wellness
Time Management
Study Skills
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Occupational wellness is the ability to achieve balance between work and leisure time. A career is a very important life choice. Your attitude towards your career can play a major role in your overall wellness. A career should allow for personal satisfaction and enrichment in your life, focusing on finding something you excel in and are passionate about. Achieving occupational wellness also encompasses addressing workplace stress and building relationships with co-workers.
Tips to Achieve Occupational Wellness
Physical wellness is practicing self-care for the needs of your body. This includes physical activity, balanced nutrition, getting adequate sleep, and avoiding harmful behaviors. Physical wellness also includes a personal responsibility to understand your body’s warning signs and recognize when you are ill and in need of medical attention.
Tips to Achieve Physical Wellness
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Social wellness is developing a sense of belonging through meaningful connections and building positive relationships with others to feel connected as part of a greater community. Maintaining optimal social wellness allows you to have a social network that can offer support during difficult times, while increasing your self-esteem, emotional resilience, and preparing you to handle conflict properly. UNG has many opportunities for you to interact and get involved.
Tips to Achieve Social Wellness
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Spiritual wellness is the development of a mind-body connection to foster personal growth and help you remain resilient and better prepared to face life’s challenges. It is a personal journey to find peace and balance in your life that connects with your values and beliefs. Spiritual wellness may include prayer, meditation, affirmations, or specific spiritual rituals. Everyone should explore their own beliefs and discover their sense of meaning and purpose.
Tips to Achieve Spiritual Wellness
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