✨ Wellness Wednesday – Freedom in Your Well-Being ✨

Wellness Wednesday is about remembering that true freedom comes from caring for our mind, body, and spirit. This week, we’re honored to feature guest voices: Pastor Nicholas Lee and our Wellness Friend🪷. Community speakers remind us that freedom isn’t just about changing jobs, it’s about growing, healing, and shining light so others can be encouraged too.

Insights From Our Wellness Friend 🪷

Happy Wellness Wednesday to all my quitters (job wise only—never quit on yourself)! I’ve been invited to give my tidbits on wellness by the owner of this site.

First piece of advice: wellness is wealth. In so many ways, health is truly the great equalizer of society. Whether your class, race, or wealth, we are all at the mercy of our own physical and mental health. With that being true, we need to act as though we are protecting our most vital resource.

Treat your everyday rituals like a battle for your health. While I don’t undermine that it takes more than willpower alone, I implore everyone to find what works for you—through speaking with medical professionals, trial and error of new routines, and factoring in what your body and mind respond to positively. This is not an overnight process, but it is one of great reward. Every step towards preserving our well-being pays off because we are helping our body defend against health declines.

The choices for wellness we do not choose for ourselves will be chosen for us. Unfortunately, we are not all blessed to be free of mental and physical disability. Therefore, we must focus on the parts of our health we do have control of to better our quality of life.

Invest in your health in all the ways you can:

• Get that gym membership

• See that doctor

• Take those vitamins

• Take that rest day

• Go on the vacation

• Get that weighted blanket

Your body and mind will thank you! Even a few minutes of investment through prayer or meditation, if that is all you can afford can make a difference.

Take care of the health and abilities you currently have; you may miss them one day. If you have all your teeth and can still smile? What a blessing, brush them. If you can walk? Thank God and go for a stroll. If you have eyes that can see? See your optometrist.

It costs more in the future to try to get back the health you neglected. And I’m speaking from experience, medical treatment is not free.

Guest Feature: Pastor Nicholas Lee

At the heart of Christianity is the call to love God and love our neighbor. To be a “better Christian” doesn’t mean perfection, it means growth. As followers of Christ, we are called to reflect His character of compassion, justice, humility, and forgiveness in a world that desperately needs it.

By striving to be better Christians, we create lives that testify to God’s grace, inspire hope in others, and bring healing to our communities. Ultimately, being a better Christian is less about titles and more about transformation, allowing Christ to shape how we think, act, and serve each day.

In the words of Jesus Christ:

“Let your light so shine before men and women, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” (Matt. 5:16)

THANK YOU to our Wellness Friend and Pastor Nicholas Lee for sharing their wisdom and experiences. Their voices remind us that we’re not walking this journey alone. Community makes the pursuit of freedom and wellness richer. Thank you both for pouring into us this Wellness Wednesday. 🌿✨

✨ Self Reflection:

What’s one small step you can take today to invest in your health—body, mind, or spirit—that your future self will thank you for?