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I recently got a hold of the book Walk Your Way to Better by Joyce Shulman. When I first received the book I felt that the title was incomplete. Walk your way to better.... what? However, I didn't have to dive too deep into the book to find out there was no better title for this book. You are […]

Things are a bit crazy right now, for lack of a better word. Chances are you and your employees are now working from home right now or you are working with a skeleton crew. If you are practicing social distancing or shelter in place or isolation or prison, whatever you want to call it, your mental […]

Participating in the wellness program has helped me immensely.  In December of 2017, I could barely walk over 20 minutes at one time. My weight had ballooned up to 365 pounds.  I was also having multiple health problems to include being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes (this was my bottom) and fatty […]

I'm so grateful for the wellness program at work. I have a membership at Vasa, but sometimes finding time to work out can be difficult. After getting home from work I either feel exhausted or guilty that I don't get to spend enough time with family. There are always school meetings to attend and […]

In April we held a "Wellness Success Blog Contest" where our client's employees submitted a blog post about their successes with the Wellness Program provided by the Wellness Connection. Here is one of those submissions:

With the growing resources for technology, there can still be a communication barrier with some of your employees. Either those hard to reach employees are not responsive to emails, or they just don’t have a desire to participate in a Wellness Program.  How can you fix this issue?

Stretching is a crucial component of health and wellness. And while many experts argue that nutrition or exercise are the most important, there are others who place their greatest emphasis on the importance of stretching and keeping your body flexible.

What is new in Fitness? Fitness trends are always coming and going. As 2018 begins to draw to a close, we took a look at the TOP fitness trends of 2018, and dug into what could be on the fitness horizon. What the trends tell us is that a wide variety of options are available. You can be physically […]

How to make your wellness program about people, not things.

Wellness Programs can seem complicated with their many dimensions and the available options to make yours the best it can be. One of the growing trends is to include a dimension of Health Coaching in your wellness program, but this can seem very overwhelming and you might have a lot of questions […]