Wellness Teams

What is a Wellness Team?

At YOUR-CENTER.com, we believe that a strong support network is the foundation of good health. At times of need, we all need a solid team of confidants, creative professionals, and trusted friends to support us. Unfortunately, the state of our current health system often takes us out of the center of our own care and leaves us to take what we can get instead of insisting on the care we want and need.

YOUR-CENTER.com is all about helping our community feel grounded and centered. While we certainly embrace the notion that we all have intuitions about what is best for us that should be listened to and never ignored, we also believe that people often ignore the very things that may help them the most. The YOUR-CENTER.com method of creating personalized team-based health care is simple. Good balance leads to a solid center.

Creating Your Team

NCCAM classifies Complementary and Alternative Medical therapies into five general categories. For detailed information on these NIH classifications go to NCCAM's description. In addition to the domains organized by the NIH, we here at YOUR-CENTER.com have learned through our community that there is also a powerful sixth domain—education. So, at YOUR-CENTER.com, we advocate an Integrative Community Health Philosophy based around our six domains. We believe that one's center rests at the integration and balance between these domains:
• YOUR-SYSTEM of Beliefs
• YOUR-BIOLOGY
• YOUR-MECHANICS
• YOUR-MIND/BODY Connection
• YOUR-ENERGY
• YOUR-KNOWLEDGE

Follow these steps to see how well you are doing at creating wellness team.

1. Print out this worksheet, where you see six spheres labeled for each domain. Think of the professionals that you currently have as part of your healthcare team and place their name in the appropriate domain(s). If you need help placing the practitioners in the correct domains visit http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/#4.
2. Are some domains full of names and others left with fewer? Are any domains completely empty? If so, we recommend that you make an effort to learn more about YOUR-CENTER.com services offered in that domain or domains and find one that really resonates with you. Even if it feels a little intimidating to try something new, we encourage you to at least look at the qualities of each domain and ask your self if you are addressing all parts of yourself equally. At a minimum, be willing to be willing to add new aspects to your health care team. You can print or view a filled-in version of the domain spheres from step one. This is certainly not a complete list of all the services that could fall into each domain, but we hope it gives you some good possibilities to consider.
3. Use the Six Domains section of this site to find information and locate YOUR-CENTER.com practitioners offering services you've become interested in. If YOUR-CENTER.com does not have members offering the services you are looking for or would like to learn more about, please contact Melinda Cooksey! It is absolutely a service of YOUR-CENTER.com to help you find the resources you need, regardless of whether or not they are currently offered by members of the YOUR-CENTER.com community.