Hi, my name is Anita Sandoval MA,LPC. I am a Licensed
Professional Counselor.
My job is to help
people come up with techniques, skills, strategies, to implement and move
forward to a healthier environment. It is up to you to be responsible and do
what is necessary to create your own healthy environment, and I am ready to
help you do so.
What is a healthy and unhealthy.
The Eight Dimensions of Wellness
are:
- Emotional—Coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships
- Environmental—Good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being
- Financial—Satisfaction with current and future financial situations
- Intellectual—Recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills
- Occupational—Personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work
- Physical—Recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods, and sleep
- Social—Developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system
- Spiritual—Expanding a sense of purpose and meaning in life
These are basically the different aspects within your life
that if interfered with an issue can cause unhappiness or unease. With
counseling a person can objectively look and analyze where the issue lies and
come up with ways to where you can be able to become whole and healthy again.
Today we will be discussing one of the major aspects that
define all the dimensions of the wellness. It is relationships, in order to be
able to function in society in any of the dimensions mentioned before a person
needs to have a healthy relationship within one self and others.
By definition:
relationship means, the
way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the
state of being connected.
Today
in this world like the saying goes, “Some people come into our lives and leave
footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”
― Flavia Weedn
― Flavia Weedn
Basically,
whenever you connect with a person or concept or anything for that matter you
are leaving an impression. What is the impression you want to leave to people,
what is it that you stand for and want for people see. This is where it comes
down to one thing: Behaviors.
Behaviors is basically what someone does. Good or
bad behavior has always been subjective to interpretation. Therefore, I will
define what healthy and unhealthy relationships are through behaviors and
through what are subjectively interpreted through today’s society’s point of
view.
Healthy
Relationships encompass these several factors:
Non-threatening
behaviors, respect, honesty and accountability, trust and support, responsible
parenting, shared responsibility, economic partnership, negotiation and
fairness. All of which the goal of the relationship is for equality.
Unhealthy
Relationships, sometimes referred as domestic violence, encompass these
factors: Intimidation, coercion and threats, emotional abuse, isolation, male
privilege, economic abuse, using children, minimizing, denying, and blaming,
and physical abuse, all of which serves the purpose in a relationship for power
and control.
Such
type of relationships can have an affect on a person such as:
Healthy
relationship is affected by: Fewer
mental health problems, reduced pain, reduced stress, longer life, happiness.
Unhealthy
relationships can be affected by: Increased risk of coronary heart disease,
poor mental health, negative effects on overall health, heaping stress upon
stress, and slower disease recovery.
It
is up to you to decide which type of relationship you want in your life and the
effects from it by seeing the behaviors in front of you that you and the people
around you exhibit. If you are in an unhealthy relationship and are ready to
move forward into a healthier one there are some strategies that you can begin
implementing.
Some
strategies to begin changing your environment and begin building healthy
relationships is by Developing:
Effective
Communication skills and Problem solving skills.
Remember that you are a product
of your environment. It has been proven time and time again that where you are
and who you associate with will have great influence towards to who you will
become and are.
Next time I will discuss other key matters such as
parenting, substance abuse, grief, ADD, Depression and many more that can help
with the wellness dimensions. Also, it would be great to hear from you!
If
you have any comments, questions or would like for me to discuss a certain
issue, I will be more than happy to discuss it in my next blog. You can contact me at:
You can follow me at:
Twitter: anitasandoval@pacctx
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Relationship is a two way Zone. If it become one way, it started becoming unhealthy. Communication is the key part of relationship. Major factor in relationship is the adjustment between the individuals, the more each one of them do, more healthy the relationship will be. Particularly domestic violence is a chain reaction of miscommunication and non adjustment at different levels of each person. It may not be between two persons in relationship, but may have started some where else in one person and leading to domestic violence, between two person in relationship. It is the prime duty of counselor to find out where the miscommunication/adjustment fails and at what level I feel the problem can be fixed by the two persons by overcoming miscommunication/adjustment.
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