WHO ARE YOU Resource Center

Step 1:
WHO ARE YOU?

Step 2:
What the Initiative Means to You


Your Health/Wellness

Step 4:
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Step 3: Individuals and Families -
YOUR HEALTH/WELLNESS

ASSESSING YOUR HEALTH

The first, and most important step for any individual concerned about their health and the health of their family, is to do an health assessment. Although we have provided an assessment form and links to assessment resources for various areas of your total health, the conference strongly recommends that you involve your family physician in the assessment process.

Just follow the steps in the next section, Healthy Changes, to complete your assessment process before beginning any lifestyle changes. Read more about this valuable resource below.

CONFERENCE WELLNESS RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS: Healthy Changes

Healthy Changes is a resource for individuals that utilizes a step-by-step approach to personal health and wellness, emphasizing the importance of "total health". The four main steps in Healthy Changes, (Understanding Your Total Health, Make the Commitment, Assessment/Goal Setting and the Action Tool Resource Center) give any individual important tools in achieving total health. Resources in the Action Tool Resource center are broken into four main categories:

You can access the Healthy Changes center from any page on this website by clicking on Healthy Changes (Step 3) located in the top menu.

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Did you know that, according to a 2003 Pulpit and Pew survey, over 76% of Protestant ministers are either overweight or obese (compared to 61% of the general population)? Or that 40% of pastors indicate that they are at times depressed, or worn out “some or most of the time?” The reasons for this trend are debatable. The results, however, are frighteningly clear.

Two major studies found that Protestant clergy had the highest overall work-related stress of religious professionals, and (even more frighteningly), the highest death rates from heart disease of any occupation.