Words of Wellness with Shelly
Do you get confused by all of the information that is available regarding ways to improve your health and wellness? Do you often become frustrated or overwhelmed with decisions on how to be your healthiest? We all know and understand how important our health and wellness is to the vitality of our lives, however navigating the wealth of health and wellness information available can often feel overwhelming. Understanding the significance of our well-being in leading fulfilling lives is crucial, yet determining what steps to take that are essential for our health can often be confusing.
Welcome everyone to "Words of Wellness"! In this podcast, hosted by Shelly Jefferis, M.A., a seasoned health and wellness professional with over 35 years in the industry, all of your questions will be answered and clarity will be provided through personal stories, education, tips and inspiration. Throughout her profession, Shelly has always had the heart and desire to help others feel their best and live their best lives through her supportive and compassionate approach. Through engaging solo and guest episodes, several topics will be addressed, questions will be answered and clarity will be provided in an effort to lead you to a healthier, more energetic life. With a master’s degree in kinesiology, extensive experience as an educator, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur, Shelly brings a wealth of knowledge and a genuine passion for empowering others to feel their best. By featuring industry experts and relatable individuals, the podcast promises personal stories, practical advice, and inspiration. She is excited to come to you weekly sharing all she has experienced, learned and discovered through the years. Whether you're seeking to elevate your well-being, gain practical insights for personal health, or simply be inspired to live a high quality vibrant life, this is the podcast is for YOU! Be sure to tune in weekly and join us along our "Words of Wellness" journey and embark on a path toward a healthier and more fulfilling quality of life full of happiness, energy and joy!
Words of Wellness with Shelly
Cultivating Connection and Community: Shelly Explores the Impact of Social Wellness on Health and Happiness
Discover how nurturing social connections could be the key to a healthier, happier life. As modern life becomes increasingly complex, it's essential to maintain those bonds that invigorate us. This episode of Words of Wellness is a solo endeavor where Shelly focuses on the importance of an often overlooked aspect of wellness; social wellness. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we often overlook the power of community. Together, we will unravel the significance of belonging to various groups, whether it's family, friends, business circles, or recreational communities, and the pivotal role they play in our mental and emotional well-being.
The episode delves into recent research revealing the alarming effects of loneliness on health, even linking it to mortality. But don't worry—this isn't just a warning; it's a call to action. Shelly shares actionable insights on forming new relationships or strengthening existing ones, ensuring our lives are infused with energy and joy. As someone who has championed communities for years, she is excited to offer practical advice and inspiration to help you foster these vital connections. Join Shelly in exploring how embracing the richness of community life not only elevates our well-being but also brings a vibrant, connected existence within reach.
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Shelly Jefferis
Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelley Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more To share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today.
Speaker 1:Hello everyone, and welcome back to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly and I will be your host. My name is Shelly and I will be your host, and if this is your first time tuning in, I want to welcome you to the show and, for those of you who have been listening for a while, thank you so much for tuning in. I appreciate your support so much, and my whole goal in starting my podcast months ago was to just impact the lives of all of you and to share any information related to wellness that can help you along your wellness journey so that you can live a healthier, happier life full of vitality and longevity. So I hope that's what you have been gaining from this longevity. So I hope that's what you have been gaining from this. So we are going to continue sharing weekly, and today's episode I am sharing with you a solo episode.
Speaker 1:I want to share some information about a topic that is really important to me and I recently did a topic that is really important to me and I recently did a Facebook Live about this very topic and I thought you know what I want to share with my listeners and do an episode on my podcast. And the whole topic that I want to talk with you about today has to do with our social wellness, our social health, our relationships, our communities, and I have, for many years, been a proponent of communities and being a part of various communities and also starting some of my own. And when we think about communities, I think we all have various communities and also starting some of my own. And when we think about communities, I think we all have various communities that we are a part of. Our family is one, our circle of friends would be another, our business community, our church community, our sports communities. I know, through the years and now as well, my husband and I and our family have been a part of various sports families and sports communities, and so we have various communities that we are a part of throughout our lives, and it is such an important part lives and it is such an important part, I believe, of our day-to-day lives, and you know we are not meant to be alone for long periods of time, we are not meant to live an isolated life, and for a while there, when we were shut home and couldn't really go out and do a whole lot, I mean, many of us were home, right, and that really is not what we're meant to do. We're not meant to be shut indoors for long periods of time. Now there might be some unique circumstances when someone is ill and perhaps they are their home or their bedridden or something like that. But on the whole, we are meant to be around people, right. We're meant to socialize and be around community, who we can form relationships with, who we can talk with, who we can laugh with and just spend our time with.
Speaker 1:And there's some really, really interesting research that has come out very, very recently in regards to being alone, and they have actually found that loneliness can be really detrimental to our health and they've actually found that it can actually lead to our mortality. So if someone is alone a lot and they live a very lonely life, it doesn't lend itself to much stimulation, motivation and a very high quality way of living. And I'm not referring to those who are introverts, and there are those of us like for me, for example, I don't mind spending time alone, I don't mind going away for a weekend visiting one of my kids, or going away for a weekend for a conference and spending time alone in a hotel room, for example. I don't mind that and I think that is healthy for us to spend time alone, and that's not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about long periods of time where we are not interacting, where we are alone and we are lonely, and they have actually found that having social isolation and being alone and experiencing loneliness can actually increase a person's risk for heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression and anxiety, suicidal thoughts, dementia and then earlier death.
Speaker 1:The mortality that I was just talking about would make sense, something that we have known, but now there is research to back it up, even to the point where I recently heard from a study that they are actually saying that loneliness can be more detrimental to our overall health than smoking, which to me sounds smoking, which to me sounds completely crazy, as through all my years of teaching and speaking about what's most detrimental to our health, it has been smoking, and then it turned into leading a very sedentary lifestyle, and now they're talking about experiencing loneliness being right up there with being detrimental to our health. So it's a really, really big deal. So I wanted to just hop on, and I wanted to share this information with all of you because I think it's really important for us to realize that this is a serious topic and that we are meant to be in community with one another, and I want to encourage all of you to maybe seek out communities that might match your personality. Or perhaps you're looking for a circle of friends that match your same beliefs and hobbies that you enjoy. Maybe you're looking for a church family. Maybe you're looking to start a new business and you want to join others who are doing a similar type of business. Whatever it might be, I just want to encourage you to pursue it and to go after it.
Speaker 1:And, along the same lines, I want to encourage everyone to reach out to others. You know, we just never know when someone might be feeling lonely and sometimes, when that happens, they might not be as inclined to reach out to their friends. They might not be so inclined to make that first move, if you will, and to pick up the phone and make that call or to text someone. So I just wanted to hop on and encourage everyone to take that time, whether it be with a loved one, maybe a friend that you haven't talked to for a long period of time, reach out, whether it be a phone call, whether it be a text. And the reason that this is so fresh in my mind is, for one, I have actually heard someone speak on these studies and share this research, and I was really surprised to know this research and I was really surprised to know how detrimental this can be for people, and so I wanted to make it known. And the other reason I'm talking about this is because it really hit me the other day and I just had such a strong feeling of gratitude because I was thinking about all of the different people who are in my life and the different communities that I am a part of.
Speaker 1:And it was for it was about a week, maybe a little over a week, where I had a lot of different events going on, which is unusual to have it all happen in a short amount of time, but it did. And, quite honestly, I could actually date back to when I had my first Moms who Flourish wellness event. That day was a day filled with really special women, special moms, who all are very like-minded, and it was just a very special day filled with beautiful people, and that just always fills my heart so much. And so I had that experience early in the month. And then a week later my sister got married and that is always such a special time to be around family, be around family, friends, many people who we don't see that frequently, and you get to see them, you get to catch up with them and that is always so, so, very special. And then a couple days later we had an event with my health and wellness company and again, just a really wonderful community of people. And then we had a couple other events locally that were business events and it just got me to thinking and realizing how much I love the different communities that I am a part of, how much I value the people who are in my life.
Speaker 1:And, like I said, I did this Facebook Live about this very topic and I thought you know what I want to hop on and do a podcast episode about it, just because I think it's such an important topic and I am such a proponent of community and, like I said earlier, we all have different communities that we are a part of, different communities that we are a part of, and I think it is just so valuable for us to continue to nurture those communities, continue to nurture the relationships within those communities and to continue to grow and perhaps become a part of or start other new communities that we can begin to build on our own. And that is actually something that I'm in the process of doing right now with my Moms who Flourish group, and so I just wanted to hop on and share these thoughts, share some of these studies that are out to make the point that this is a big deal, it's not something to be taken lightly, and I think, now more than ever, we know the value of community, we know the need of having community, we know the need of having community, and I think also, now more than ever, we need to get back to reaching out to people, having phone conversations, talking to people, whether it be in person or on the phone, or FaceTime, or on a Zoom call if someone's out of state, whatever it might be Because, again, these interactions are Really, I believe, fill up our cups. That's how we grow and flourish as people, because, again, we're not meant to be isolated, we're not meant to be alone for long periods of time, and I just know for me personally and maybe you experience the same that when I'm around people. It energizes me, it makes me happy, I enjoy the people that I surround myself with, and I was just really having such a strong sense of gratitude a few days ago for all of the different people that I experience in my life, and it just again comes back to the importance of connection and community. So I hope you find some value in this message today and I will just share.
Speaker 1:If you are looking for a certain community, you know, feel free to reach out to me. I might have something that you could be a part of, or perhaps I might have some ideas for you, but I also certainly hope that you all feel welcome and a part of our Words of Wellness community, because this is a community as well, and I just want to thank you all again for being a part of this journey with me, and I want to thank you all for listening and taking time out of your schedule and out of your day to tune in. It means more than you'll ever know and again, I hope you find value in this and take time on this day to do something for your own personal wellness, and also take time on this day to perhaps reach out to someone that you haven't spoken to for a while, or reach out to a loved one or a friend who maybe you haven't heard from in a while. Make that phone call, make that text and continue to nourish those communities that you are a part of. And, as always, I hope you all have a beautiful, blessed rest of your week and I will see you next time on Words of Wellness.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you gained value and enjoyed our time together as much as I did, and if you know someone who could benefit from today's episode, I would love and appreciate it if you could share with a friend or rate and review words of wellness so that more can hear this message. I I love and appreciate you all. Thank you for listening and if you have any questions or topics you would like me to share in future episodes, please don't hesitate to reach out to me through my contact information that is shared in the show notes below. Again, thank you for tuning in to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I encourage you to do something for you, for your wellness, on this day. Until next time, I hope you all have a healthy, happy and blessed week. Thank you you.