Wellness doesn't just happen. You need a plan.

Wellness Planning

When you are well, you do well. You feel better. Relationships and business are better.
YOU are better.And the best healthcare?
Is the healthcare you don't need.Wellness Planning. It's how you do everything you can to be healthy and well.

Successful people make plans

WHO is Wellness planning for?

Wellness Planning is for those who want to plan for the long game in life.If you've thought any of these thoughts, Wellness Planning is for you."I'm saving money, but I also want to healthy when I retire so I can enjoy it""I'm trying to eat well and work out, but it's hard to maintain over the long run""I see my regular doctor and my obgyn. I've also had a therapist, and a fitness coach. It all feels so disjointed""I run marathons and eat healthy, but I don't feel great about other areas like relationships and work"

make a plan. Get results.

What can wellness planning do for you?

  • Feel better when you have a plan in place

  • Know where to find reputable sources for health information

  • Know how to ask about your risks and benefits when you hear "you should.."

  • Implement only changes that make sense to you

  • Be 100% confident in your ability to maintain healthy choices

  • Take charge of your wellness with risk-benefit awareness

  • Understand factors that make you well besides diet and exercise

  • Get peace of mind when you're confident you're doing what you need to do

You need Wellness Planning because...

Wellness Planning is different because...

  • Being well is more than diet and exercise

  • Health should be more than treating problems

  • Planning your retirement goes beyond your finances

  • More time on prevention means less time fixing expensive problems

  • The "wellness industry" needs to be a lot more than hawking supplements

  • Your annual 15 minute well check up with a busy healthcare provider isn't enough

  • You can go into information overload trying to figure out what you "should" do to be well.

  • Information written for the masses does not incorporate how you perceive risks and benefits

The WELLNESS PLANNING FRAMEWORK

Make healthy choices in all areas

Being well means feeling well and making the best choices for you, in every area that affects your health.Wellness Planning makes it easy with a 3 "B" format:Body - What you eat, how you move, and how you sleep
Brain - What you think and how you feel
Being - Connections to others and a sense of direction and purpose

Be well, a better way

based on your B.E.S.T.

The Wellness Planning Framework uses the acronym B.E.S.T. to help you identify the factors that matter to your health and your choices.Wellness Planning works with you to leverage "the best of the B.E.S.T." to positively shift your wellness trajectory.B - Background. Your values, experiences, upbringing, and genes.
E - Environment. From home to home country, where you live matters.
S - Support. Who and what in your life is available to you.
T - Tools. Your knowledge, skills, beliefs, and attitude toward changes.

How Wellness Planning Works

A Plan is a bridge

Wellness Planning starts with a check in on the 3 "B"s, Body, Brain, and Being and your short and long term aspirations.We explore the many influences on your health and wellness using the B.E.S.T. format.We use evidenced based tools and resources so you have solid information to guide your planning.Rather than telling you what to do, we focus on understanding risk, just like a financial planner would if they were helping you with your money. Most people understand that financial investments come with risk. There's no guarantees on health either. There's only understanding of risks/reward and choices you can make.You get a plan and guide that works for you, because you helped craft it.
Wellness Planning is not therapy or medical advice and does not take the place of your medical care.Wellness planning is a unique, big picture approach. It's for you to gain awareness and have tools to make decisions and changes about your health and wellness trajectory.

Chris Arestides, RN MPH

About

You get your very own nurse when you sign up for Wellness Planning.You get a nurse who started her career with patients at their end of their lives in an ICU...and wondered how they wound up there.For over a decade, I sat at kitchen tables and bedsides in thousands of homes, listening, teaching, advocating, and empowering people to make choices on matters that affected their wellbeing.I managed teams of nurses and other professionals with reflective supervision, so they could be at their very best working with those often at their very worst moments.I led projects and contracting at a national organization, partnering with organizations, researchers, and government on evidence-based nursing and community health strategies to change individual and societal health and wellness outcomes.From ICU beds to managed care boardrooms, this unique healthcare career journey led me to creating the Wellness Planning Framework.Nurses have ranked as the most trusted profession for decades.
It will be my privilege to earn yours.

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Is this for you?

You might have a financial plan and a career plan, but most people don't have a roadmap for the most important factor in financial, business, career, and relationship success - their health and wellness.If you're into planning and making investments in you, Wellness Planning is for you.If you want to hear more than the usual diet and exercise advice, Wellness Planning is for you.You get a roadmap to be well today, and know exactly what you need to do to be as well as you can, for as long as you can.The immediate rewards of awareness and knowledge start with the Wellness Planning process. The plan that you co-author - so you know it will work- pays off for decades to come.Optional coaching for follow through on goals is available. Resources or referrals will be made to address specific needs beyond the scope of Wellness Planning.

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A few words from people who have worked with Chris:"So often your words have reached me exactly when I needed to hear them." Laura, former client"I feel like you're the only one with any sense. You make the complicated, concrete." Managed Care Executive"Thank you for getting me going in the right direction," Mary, homecare nurse