We’re sending you a warm, hearty welcome to our new website! This site is designed to be a welcoming, user friendly resource for inspiration, information and conversation about health and wellness. We invite you to participate in the happenings on this site and look forward to getting to know you better. We’re going to take you on a tour of the site below, but let’s first start with a brief discussion about this thing called “Wellness”.
What the heck is Wellness?
At first thought one might think that wellness is the act of being well. This is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Wellness is a multidimensional state of being that involves:
- LOVE: the loving acceptance of yourself
- CHOICE: making a decision to move toward optimal health
- PROCESS: a developing awareness that there is no endpoint, but that health and happiness are possible in each and every moment, here and now
- ACTION: designing a lifestyle that enables you to achieve your highest wellbeing
- BALANCE: energy received from the environment, transformed within you and returned to affect the world around you
- INTEGRATION: the appreciation that everything you do, think, feel and believe has an impact on your state of health and the health of the world
(Adapted from John Travis, MD, MPH- author of “The Wellness Workbook”)
So when we put this all together, BCWS has adapted the following definition of wellness that serves as its guiding principle:
An active process of enhancing one’s awareness of and making choices that result in a healthy, enjoyable life.
Wellness is achieved when we make healthy choices that enhance and improve our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual selves. Although it isn’t a specific destination, life sure feels good when you’ve achieved a healthy state of wellness. When you are authentically well, you strive to continue to engage in the activities that got you there in the first place.
BCWS is dedicated to providing you with the support, resources and encouragement necessary to help nurture your best self. We have seen this work in action at our center. Many of our clients have enhanced their healing by indulging in more than one of our services. This integrative approach has proven successful time and time again. We’ve seen people rise and shine from depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, physical pain and other maladies after taking a comprehensive holistic approach in their healing. If you’d like some specific examples, feel free to contact us for more information.
We have assembled a dynamic team of professionals who are passionate about health and happiness. We look forward to meeting you and sharing our passion with you.
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF OUR NEW SITE!
We’ve redesigned and expanded our site for YOU! Let’s take a walk through some of the hotspots (although we do believe the entire site is a hotspot, lol):
Main Navigation Menu: this section contains information about your friendly neighborhood BCWS staff, our services, specializations and events. Here you will also find menu links to our shopping destinations where you can shop for Young Living Essential Oils, Good Clean Love Personal Lubricants and Books.
Give us a call at (631) 482-8010 to inquire further about our services or to schedule an appointment.
Blog Magazine Menu: the peach colored menu houses links to articles and other goodies to help enhance your understanding about wellness. We’ll be posting articles, book and product reviews, videos and information about upcoming events and happenings at BCWS.
Here we invite you to participate by commenting with your feedback, stories, recommendations and simple hellos! We’ll also post information about giveaways and other specials here for our loyal friends Feel free to share helpful articles with your friends by clicking the “Share” button in the right column of every page. There you can select which sites and networks to share each article and page on this site.
If you are health professional and would like to submit an article for the blog, please click here to contact us and select “Guest Blogging” in the subject line.
Dear Dawn Advice Column: this is our monthly advice column written by BCWS co-founder Dawn E. Shedrick. For down-to-earth advice and support on a multitude of life issues, click here to submit a question or share a story to be featured in the column. Be sure to select “Dear Dawn” in the subject line.
Join Our Mailing List: Be sure to enter your email address to join our mailing list if you haven’t already. We made this convenient for you, as you will find a sign up form in the right column of each page. Talk about convenience!
Let’s Socialize!: Keep up with us via Facebook and Twitter in the right column of the site. And click the links in top right corner of the site to join us on our Facebook page and to follow us on Twitter. We promise to follow you back too 
Featured Video: We’ll keep cool videos in rotation for you, whether they showcase some of the happenings at BCWS, provide you with customer feedback and raves or share relevant wellness content.
We hope you enjoy your stay, be sure to come back often
