​Health and wellness, they are the same right? Well, not exactly! Scenario 1- You are having coffee with friends.....you sit and eagerly discuss wellness? Ha! (Silence) I know...it is not a hot topic discussion during hang out time. So let's try another scenario... Scenario 2 - Again coffee with friends. You sit down, "Ugh, I need to do something to be healthy. I just want to lose weight by Christmas. Start exercising more?"  Do you realize that you, like a lot of us do not discuss wellness, or what it really means to achieve total wholeness that leads us making healthy choices? You say Deb, that is not a bad thing. True. However, we are cheating ourselves of so much more. What’s the best or worst health, wellness, or lifestyle advice you’ve ever gotten? Why was it the best or the worst? So now you are probably confused, what is the difference between health and wellness? I'm glad you asked. Health is the goal that you wish to attain by performing an activity. Whereas, wellness is the action that you initiate to be healthy. ​ The World Health Organization defines wellness as..." The optimal state of health. Health of individuals and groups", expressed as "a positive approach to living." ​Wellness despite being a noun acts more like an action word. It is really an active process that requires us to be engaged participants in the process. We should all be having discussions about how to attain wellness.