Latest Issue

May you be well.

As Dr. Jessi Gold says in this issue’s How Do You Feel Today?, the eight dimensions of wellness frame the bigger picture of our lives. More than just evaluating our mental or physical wellness, we also should check in daily on our social, spiritual, occupational, intellectual, financial and environmental selves.

When our emotional hearts flutter and stutter, tears fall and despair invades, we know we aren’t well. This issue tries to help prepare us for those inevitable heartrending times, to help us navigate the stormy seas that threaten to wreck our lifeboats on rocky barren shores. Or if you find yourself trying to stay afloat now, perhaps this issue will provide some encouragement or help.

UT Chattanooga, UT Health Science Center and UT Knoxville work to improve physical wellbeing, which can affect our mental and social dimensions. UT Institute of Agriculture works to help Tennesseans improve their financial wellness, which can affect so many other aspects of life. UT Southern used poetry during the fall semester to help students’ mental wellbeing. The Institute for Public Services works to protect physical wellbeing from lithium battery fires, while a UT Martin professor suggests ways to help caregivers.

How do you improve your wellbeing?

Jennifer Sicking,
Executive Editor