Balance, A Center for Health and Wellness

What does it mean to be balanced?  As college age individuals, or at any age, it can often be difficult to figure out what in our lives is important to maintain balance.  Balance, A Center for Health and Wellness, is a place for students to safely discover what ways they can holistically engage their health to stay balanced.  We look to offer students:

- ways to meet their personal health needs and concerns
-a way to address our communities’ health needs and ways to get
involved there in
-ways students can get involved on a national and global level to
improve health and be part of making a difference.

Students’ opportunities to engage their personal health can come simply from learning about any aspect of their health.  Providing resources on eating nutritiously and exercising is a way to help student engage their physical health.  It can also include learning more about a specific health concern related to their well-being.   The student’s emotional health can be engaged by learning ways to de-stress.   Another way to engage one’s emotional well being may be to learn more about anxiety or other aspects of mental health.   The spiritual health of a student, and how that ties into emotional and physical health, could be engaged by learning to participate in self care that includes spirituality.

Students’ opportunities to be involved in engaging community health will be interfaced with our other ministries here, the prayer ministry and the missions committee.  It is part of our goal that as students recognize ways to participate in their personal health that they will want to expand and engage in serving the community to help others meet their health related needs.  As this resource develops, we plan to make it a space that will serve the needs of the college age community.

As we look to meet the needs globally and nationally, we offer student’s opportunities to first of all gain awareness.   We also look to offer students feasible ways to get involved at the national and international level.  Some of those opportunities include our continued partnership with Nana Cru area of Liberia by bringing them wells for clean water and nets to prevent Malaria.

For more information contact Miranda Kennedy, Director of Health Ministries, at balance@isuwesley.org