National Wellness Month National Wellness Month was built to encourage sustainable habits, bring community, and promote self-care. Self-care utilizes a holistic model encompassing physical wellness, emotional wellness, and mental wellness. - Physical Wellness: taking care of your body through exercise, proper nutrition, and regular medical checkups.
- Emotional Wellness: recognizing and managing your emotions effectively by building resilience, fostering positive relationships, and finding healthy ways to cope with stress.
- Mental Wellness: cognitive health such as intellectual growth, creativity, and critical thinking. Engage in activities that stimulate your mind like reading or solving puzzles.
Together, self-care and wellness are subjective. Ultimately, they are defined as deliberate actions to care for a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. National Wellness Month encourages people to prioritize self-care by taking a pledge to the habits of wellness. This can be done in ways as defined below: - Drink plenty of water: hydration can improve your wellness through digestive health, skin health, cognitive function, physical performance, and more.
- Get good sleep: proper sleep is good for heart health, consolidates memories, regulates hormones, and strengthens the immune system, while also positively impacting mood and cognitive function.
- Exercise: regular exercise can help us gain stronger muscles and bones, improve cardiovascular health, weight management, reduce risk of chronic diseases, increase energy levels, and promote better sleep.
- Relaxing activities: activities like yoga, hiking, reading, listening to music, and making art can improve mood.
- Practice gratitude and positivity: take time to practice gratitude and positivity daily to lower stress, increase dopamine and serotonin, and reduce stress.
A change in your wellness routine can be made with small changes. Start by adding one extra glass of water a day, reducing screen time by one hour, or making small movements to improve exercise. Wellness reminds us to pause and take care of ourselves. The daily demands of life pull us in all directions, but we can bring ourselves back into focus. Learn more about Wellness Month and sign up for the 31-day wellness challenge at https://livelovespa.com/pages/wellness-month. Women’s Equality Day
(8/26/2025) Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the U.S. on August 26th to commemorate the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, prohibiting the states from denying the right to vote to citizens based on sex and recognizing the right of women to vote. This was not the end of the struggle for women’s rights. It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that provided more comprehensive protections for historically excluded groups in the United States. Officially recognized by Congress in 1973, National Women’s Equality Day commemorates these achievements and adds value to continued advocacy to achieve true gender equality. Today, women and girls continue to face barriers to their safety and meaningful participation in social, economic, and political life around the world and including the United States. Today, there are entities dedicated to promoting women and girls’ rights and empowerment through U.S. foreign policy, programs, and partnerships. The gap in gender equality is felt today in pay disparities, under-representation in industries such as STEM, domestic work and childcare, and fewer leadership positions. While there have been leaps of progress in these areas, Women’s Equality Day continues to highlight many institutional, societal, and cultural changes that still need to be addressed to achieve gender parity. Wellness Grove Group Counseling Group counseling is an effective tool for receiving support and learning skills to tackle mental health concerns. This month’s highlighted groups include: - “I am Powerful” is a group for adults (18 and older) with a diagnosis of ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to build community and self love
(10:00am to 11:00am / Bi-weekly / Fridays / Telemental Health) - “Adulting 101” is a group for 18-25 year olds navigating adulthood, learning to balance mental health, and living fully
(7:00pm to 8:00pm / Weekly / Tuesdays / Telemental Health)
Visit https://wellnessgrove.com/services/group-counseling/ to learn more about groups offered at Wellness Grove! Wellness Grove Art Workshop Opportunities Wellness Grove hosts art workshops on the last Saturday of every month from 12:00pm to 1:30pm at 4522 Fulton Dr NW, Canton, OH 44718. Each workshop has a different theme and art task. Cost of attendance includes materials and light snacks and refreshments. Call (330) 915-2907 or stop in to learn more about the monthly theme and let’s make some art, together! | 
