About Us: Employee Wellness Center - University of Delaware

What is Wellness?

Wellness is a holistic concept. It is looking at the whole person, not just their blood pressure, body fat, exercise behavior or what a person had for lunch. It involves physical, social, emotional, occupational, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions.

Wellness is not a lot of things:

It is not about perfection. Extreme perfectionism is a shame-based process that feeds a negative view, such as workaholism, anorexia, and other addictive behaviors can be the result.
Wellness does not mean swearing off hot fudge sundaes, but it does mean learning about a healthy diet and how to eat and behave to maximize one's health and quality of life.
It is not about fearing disease. Wellness is about thinking for yourself and recognizing how to profit from taking responsibility rather than deflecting it to someone else.

Through coordinated strategies and integrated packages, the Employee Wellness Program provides resources and services to educate and support employees in their effort to improve their own wellness.

For information, please call 831-8388.