by Peggy Green of Thee Grief Specialist
This is a continuation of the series “Grief and Mourning at Work: How to Get the Support You Need”
Financial Wellness
by Denise O’Malley, Founder of You Define Wellness and a Reformed Insurance Agent
“Why doesn’t health insurance cover alternative medicine?” Versions of that question was recently asked of me in two separate conversations. Here’s how I responded.
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by Peggy Green of Thee Grief Specialist
I hear time and time again from others who are grieving that it is a necessity to return to work. The most common reason is financial. Second is the fear of losing their job for being absent too long.
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By Denise O’Malley, founder of You Define Wellness
Health insurance is probably not your favorite topic, it’s not mine either. This is one of the reasons why I call myself a Reformed Insurance Agent.
Health care, however, is a fact of life and learning to become the CEO of your health and lifestyle helps you better navigate through the financial decisions that come with health decisions.
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by Denise O’Malley, founder of You Define Wellness
Wellness education at the workplace is an important part of building and supporting happy, healthy & thriving employees as its purpose is to provide knowledge and awareness in an area of healthy living that the recipient may not be familiar. Finding people to deliver that education is the hard part and we make it easy at You Define Wellness!
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For several years we’ve hosted online public events at You Define Wellness; with the slowdown of 2020, we took the opportunity to restructure our offerings and launched a new suite of online events that have been wildly popular with the public! Our success means many healthy living professionals, non-profit organizations, and companies have approached us recently about co-hosting events and sponsorship opportunities.
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By Denise O’Malley, founder of You Define Wellness
We understand corporate wellness isn’t the highest priority for a company. To succeed, your organization has to focus on the objective of your purpose – be it selling widgets or services – not the health of your people. Employee wellbeing? It’s an afterthought, a fluffy, nice-to-do but not necessary function of running your business.
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by Denise O’Malley, founder and Healthy Living Maestro at You Define Wellness
When white light passes through a prism, the light is separated into its component colors with each color being integral to creating a beautiful rainbow. At You Define Wellness, each color is symbolic of a dimension of wellness and illustrates how critical each component is to healthy living.
Sounds good, but this is real life. How do you achieve harmony with all the dimensions?
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by Denise O’Malley, founder and Healthy Living Maestro at You Define Wellness
The achievement of ‘wellness’ has oftentimes seemed like an exercise in spinning plates to me. Just when I’ve got the plates all spinning, one starts to falter. I focus my attention on that plate and just as it starts spinning correctly, other plates start wobbling. I repeat the pattern until I’m thoroughly exhausted and all the plates suddenly crash to the floor.
Sound familiar?
On February 21, 2021, all of my plates crashed. All of them.
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by Denise O’Malley, Healthy Living Maestro and founder of You Define Wellness
How much do you spend every year for massage therapy, holistic health care, coaching, mental health, fitness, yoga, etc.? Studies show that 59 million Americans spend an estimated $30.2 BILLION every year, out-of-their pocket, on healthy living services not covered by other employee benefit programs!
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