The overlooked component of holistic wellness programs: social well-being

Humans are social creatures. In our early, formative years, children are, hopefully, nurtured within healthy family environments: loving parents, siblings, extended family, friends, teachers, coaches and others. But as children mature into adults, interactions with others change and evolve. As adults, many feel like their life is separated into silos — even more so over the past two years when social distancing and quarantining became the norm.  

Messages like this promote an ideology of individualism. Our ability to positively connect ourselves to family, community or co-workers has been severely disrupted, and our collective social well-being gets hit hard.