Women often juggle careers and family commitments simultaneously, often neglecting to focus on their own health and wellness as a priority.
At risk are serious health consequences in the form of mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing for women. But there are steps they can take to maintain overall holistic wellness in their lives.
Self-love and confidence
Cultivating self-love requires using positive affirmations and healthy boundaries as tools for cultivating it, along with adopting a body-positive mindset and showing gratitude for yourself as you exist physically.
Confidence can help you set realistic goals and remain motivated, while knowing you are enough can provide peace of mind and boost self-esteem.
Women who seek wellness understand their own individual health needs and disruptions throughout life – including reproductive and hormonal changes, bone health concerns, digestive stress and urinary incontinence issues. Female wellness encompasses everything.
Nutrition
Women have specific nutritional requirements that necessitate a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins – nutrients which can help prevent chronic diseases and foster overall wellness.
Iron is an essential nutrient for women as it helps combat anemia. Therefore, it is recommended that they consume foods rich in iron such as leafy greens, lean meats, and fortified cereals to meet this need.
Other essential nutrients for women include calcium, Vitamin D and magnesium – these three nutrients help prevent osteoporosis and support bone health.
Exercise
Women should make time in their busy lives for physical exercise. Regular physical activity helps maintain a healthy weight while simultaneously lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, improving mental wellbeing and increasing energy.
Weight-bearing exercises help women strengthen bones and lower their risk of osteoporosis as they approach menopause, as well as dementia – one of Australia’s biggest killers of women.
Women who exercise together, such as walking clubs or yoga classes, often find that exercising with others makes exercise simpler and helps maintain fitness regimens more easily. Working out is much simpler when shared.
Mental health
Women face unique stressors – from society’s expectations for beauty, motherhood, and work to hormonal changes which may alter mood. Therefore it’s crucial that they prioritize their mental health by accessing resources designed specifically to their gender-specific needs.
Depression and anxiety can create an unstable work-life balance and physical ailments that impact quality of life. Self-care practices as well as developing positive relationships with those in a supportive community are two strategies that may be utilized to address such challenges more successfully.
Psychodynamic therapy allows women to explore emotional experiences more deeply, uncovering how these encounters influence their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors – as well as comprehend why certain societal pressures may negatively impact their mental wellness.
Reproductive health
Women’s wellness involves understanding and caring for reproductive health – regardless of your fertility plans – through education on various birth control methods and planning your family goals.
Sexual and reproductive health is an ongoing priority for women from menarche (first period) through to menopause, and UNFPA supports programs tailored specifically to each of these stages of women’s lives, addressing all aspects of female wellness.
Women should receive regular health screenings such as pap tests, breast exams and screening for sexually transmitted infections to help detect early warning signs and proactively address potential future health problems. These screenings can detect early warning signs in order to protect future generations from health concerns that might become serious later.
Healthcare sharing
Women’s wellness encompasses meeting the unique needs of women to foster long-term health and fulfillment, such as prioritizing physical and emotional well-being, engaging in self-care practices, and building healthy relationships.
Women should receive regular screenings and preventative care to ensure their bodies are operating at peak capacity. Healthcare sharing organizations like Impact can assist by connecting women to high-quality providers who specialize in women’s health.
Social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and nutrition need to be addressed for women in order to enhance the quality of their lives. One effective approach for doing this is speaking directly to women about these challenges before connecting them with available resources.
