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8 Dimensions of Wellness

Find resources and information at YC & in the community to support your overall wellbeing

Get a personalized visualization of your current wellness,
including ways to improve in any area.

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Use the wellness journal prompts to reflect on your progress.

  View the journal prompts pdf

Goal Setting:

  • Seek open mindedness for new experiences and learning opportunities everyday
  • Strive for academic success
  • Explore your creativity
  • Love to Learn!

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Goal Setting:

  • Create and maintain healthy relationships
  • Practice the art of making new friendships
  • Surround yourself with a supportive network of people who you trust and understand you
  • Connect with social groups in your community

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Goal Setting:

  • Increase your awareness around major/career options available to you
  • Seek a career that is fulfilling, and you are passionate about
  • Create short- and long-term goals to work towards your career
  • Develop useful job-related skills such as organization, communication etc.

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Goal Setting:

  • Contributing to the greater good of our world
  • Develop concrete values, ethics and beliefs
  • Reflect on the world and life experiences
  • Develop a sense of meaning or purpose in life

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Goal Setting:

  • Understand your body
  • Make conscious decisions about what you put into your body
  • Feel comfortable with your physical appearance
  • Create a healthy relationship with physical activities and exercise
  • Maintain healthy sleep habits and schedules

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Goal Setting:

  • Develop and maintain honest relationships
  • Develop skills to handle fear, anger, frustration and other stressful emotions
  • Become comfortable with feeling uncomfortable
  • Be attentive to both positive and negative feelings and understanding these emotions is a significant factor to a healthy life

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Goal Setting:

  • Manage, save and budget money can help reduce stress, anxiety and fear
  • Develope a budget that works with you to help you save money
  • Creating short- and long-term financial goals to work towards
  • Understand where to go to ask or help around budgeting and saving money

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Goal Setting:

  • Create mindfulness about your environment 
  • Structure an environment that fits your needs 
  • Reduce your ecological footprint
  • Learn to be aware and appreciative of our limited natural resources

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