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Maximizing Vitality When You’re Singin’ The Holiday Blues
If you are eagerly looking forward to gathering with family and friends for the upcoming holidays, snuggling around the fireplace with cups of eggnog or hot chocolate, baking cookies (or frying latkes) with your kids, nieces and nephews, or basking in the love and light of the season, this blog is not for you.
Beauty: An Essential Ingredient for Well-being
Be Strong Families staff has been on a 6-month long self-care journey sharing our reflections, and commitments related to improving our personal vitality. Our Journey to Vitality work-site wellness program, which addresses 7 domains of vitality (Physical, Spiritual, Environmental, Financial, Emotional/Mental and Social), has been a great way to get to know and support one another and to practice a wide-range of self-care habits to boost our overall well-being.
In recent years, about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cut off so many of us from friends, loved ones, and support systems, exacerbating loneliness and isolation.