Physical Wellness

What it is:

The ability to maintain a healthy quality of life without undue fatigue and stress by adopting healthful habits while avoiding destructive habits.

Examples:

• Exercise 5 days per week
• Get 8-9 hours of sleep every night
• Follow a healthy eating pattern (including fruits, vegetables, and whole grains)
• Be responsible when consuming alcohol and avoid high risk drinking
• Use seatbelts, helmets, and other protective gear

On campus:

• Join an intramural team
• Complete Alcohol.edu
• Join a club sports team
• Take a group fitness class
• Check out what is offered at the dining halls

At Student Health Service:

• Get the flu vaccine every fall
• Get an STD and HIV screening
• Schedule a physical therapy session
• Attend a Peer Health Educator presentation
• Visit the Travel Clinic before going abroad
• Join the Student Health Advisory Board or Spark
• Ask about the HPV vaccine for women and men

Emotional Wellness

What it is:

• The ability to understand ourselves and cope with the life challenges of stress and change.

How it grows:

• Developing the tools of optimism, self-esteem, and self-acceptance.
  
• Share feelings and needs appropriately and accept our own limitations.

Social Wellness

• The ability to successfully interact with people and feel connected to the community (campus and surrounding)
• Being able to establish supportive social networks through meaningful relationships with spouses/partners, family, friends, roommates, teammates, faith community
• The ability to identify and intervene when sexual violence or abusive /violent relationships occur in your own personal life or in the lives of friends or in the campus community

Spiritual Wellness

What it is:

Living with a meaning/purpose in life; exploring beliefs and values that create personal peace and understanding. Spirituality is the human capacity to seek and encounter the Holy, anchor our values, make decisions, and contribute to the greater good of our communities.

Examples:

• Worship
• Attend a retreat
• Learn about Ignatian Spirituality
• Volunteer in a parish or church
• Go on a M.A.P. or I.M.A.P. trip over break
• Not Catholic? Learn about affiliated ministries

On campus:

• Attend mass at Marquette
• Visit the Church of the Gesu
• Visit the St. Joan of Arc Chapel
• Speak with a residence hall minister

At Campus Ministry:

• Join Campus Renew
• Join the Women's Wisdom Spirituality Group
• Learn about the Ignation Collegians program
• Receive grief support or pastoral counseling
• Get involved through music ministry
• Go on a Marquette Experience retreat
• Visit Campus Ministry's website for even more options

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Intellectual Wellness

• Life-long learning through your formal education and informal life experiences. It is the ability to open your mind to new ideas and experiences, improve your skills and seek challenges.

Financial Wellness

• Financial wellness is having an understanding of your financial situation and taking care of it in such a way that you are informed and prepared for financial changes and responsibilities

Environmental Wellness

• The goal of living in a clean and safe world which is achieved by individual and community commitment to our environment by being aware of the effect of our daily habits and that we have a personal responsibility in the pursuit of clean air, pure water, quality food, adequate shelter, and satisfactory work conditions for everyone.