Day 5 of Alabama ASDA's Wellness Week

ASDA’s Wellness Initiative encourages you to make well-being a priority with a focus on these five dimensions of your life:

1. Emotional wellness
2. Physical wellness
3. Intellectual wellness
4. Occupational wellness
5. Environmental wellness

Wellness stems from finding a balanced way of addressing all of them, as needed.

For Day 5 of Alabama ASDA's Wellness Week, we will focus on environmental wellness.

Environmental Wellness

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From ASDA's page on Environmental Wellness:
Environmental wellness refers to your relationship to your surroundings, both your immediate surroundings and the world at large. It’s about finding harmony with the natural world and understanding your impact on it.

​What can you do to increase your environmental wellness?
Turn off the lights when you leave a room | Recycle glass, plastic and aluminum cans | Put things away after you use them to avoid clutter build-up | Donate items or clothes you don’t use anymore | Take shorter showers | Ask to be taken off catalog and junk mailing lists | Carry cloth bags to the grocery store | Walk or bike instead of driving to nearby locations | Sign up for paperless billing

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Today at noon in Room 501, come relax with therapy dogs from Hand in Paw, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve human health and well-being through animal-assisted therapy.

Alabama ASDA's Wellness week will culminate in the Miles for Smiles this Saturday, September 16! Miles for Smiles is a charity 5k/Fun Run that raises money for Cahaba Valley Health Care, a non-profit organization that provides quality dental care to the underserved community in Jefferson County. Check out the Miles for Smiles page for more details and to sign up!