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Friday, April 17, 2009

Challenging Times - Friday April 17, 2009

Challenging times can bring out the worst and the best in people and as a wellness coach I’m always looking for the “best”! I’ve been reading a lot about resilience these days and I love what one author says about resilience, "it is all about bungee jumping through the pitfalls of life”, boy isn’t that the truth. The good thing about resilience is that it can be learned, practiced, and strengthened. Take a look at your daily routines, those habits that make you, you. I like what Larry Chapman, Nancy Lesch, and Sandi Aitken had to say about resilience in their 2005 article on resilience for WELCOA. They outline the components of resilience: creative fun, energy empowerment, sleep choices, social support, attitude management, life goal planning, nutritional needs, purposeful living, stress relief, and self-care. You can find their article in full at: http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/resilience_case_study.pdf

There are many good books on resilience and some of those that I really have enjoyed are: Managing Change with Personal Resilience, Hoopes, Kelly; Harvard Business Review on Building Personal and Organizational Resilience (8 great articles); The Resiliency Advantage, Siebert. Enjoy

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MaryBeth & Bill Baun

Wellness is a lifelong journey and one of the individuals that has made my journey special is my wife MaryBeth. MaryBeth and I enjoy many outdoor activities around the Medical Center area and our lake house on lake Mount Pleasant.

Wellness is an active process of making choices and commitments that enhance the quality of life and maximize personal potential. Employee Health & Well-being wellness philosophy emphasizes the need for individuals to engage in behaviors that develop optimal health and to support others in their wellness journey. Our programs are built from the National Wellness Institute's six dimensions of wellness model: physical, spiritual, emotional, social / family, occupational and intellectual.

The "Be Well" program was the first employee wellness program in a healthcare system and NCI Cancer Institute accreditated by the CEO Cancer Gold Standard organization (www.cancergoldstandard.org). Be Well utilizes a hybrid coaching model that touches individuals, target groups and divisions / departments. Our programming mix is focused on stress, physical activity / fitness, nutrition / weight management, parenting and tobacco cessation. We have many internal and external partners that work with us to create awareness, behavior change and environmental support programming that is focused on developing a culture at M.D. Anderson that values health and self responsibility.