Celebrating National Wellness Month

August is National Wellness Month, a time to prioritize your self-care, stress management, and healthy routines. This is a time to create wholesome habits in your lifestyle, all month long, and see how much healthier you feel.

At PPH, residents and staff focus on wellness every day of the year. The wellness team is led by Maureen Solomon, Kayla Jurimas, and Vincent Barrett, who focus on promoting wellness and healthy living.

The wellness team shared that their monthly TED Talks are an underrated program that offers residents the chance to engage in healthy conversations, whether they agree or disagree. “They are very unique and add a lot of enrichment for our residents”, says Vincent.

Living a healthy and happy lifestyle is an organic process that is essential to everyone’s lives, and the wellness team actively encourages residents and staff to have a strong appreciation of healthy living. “As our wellness mission statement indicates, we try to nurture a strong appreciation for healthy living, a positive mindset, daily movement and to instill in residents and employees our philosophy to value health and wellness to make good healthy choices with nutrition and movement”, says Maureen.

There are going to be days when you do not feel energized, and days when you’re stellar, but it will not matter if you have an idea of what you want to accomplish.

Smoothie Friday’s are one of the ways our Wellness Team encourages a healthy lifestyle

Being selective of what you can and can’t have does not work, as people need to live their lives. Nutrition is an essential part of wellness. “If you get too far off course, it is difficult to reign that back in”, says Maureen.

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