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What is Wellness
The preamble to the World Health Organization (WHO) constitution states “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
Read the entire Preamble here…
The Global Wellness Institute defines wellness as the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health. This definition spans six to twelve dimensions including physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental health.
Choosing the wellness way
The US healthcare industry anticipates an acute shortage of medical specialists including surgeons, doctors and nurses by 2025. An aging population, increasing numbers of people in the healthcare system and retiring doctors are expected to drive this shortage.
As the healthcare system continues its pattern of rising costs and reduced services, EWO is focused on achieving sustainable health through early adoption of wellness lifestyles and habits. Doing so can help prevent a host of disorders including chronic diseases and makes it possible to reduce dependency on the traditional healthcare system instead of making it the first line of defense.
At EWO, we believe this is a choice worth considering. By taking a holistic and preventive approach to health instead of a purely mechanistic one as the healthcare industry does, one is more likely to avoid health pitfalls and remain healthy. Prevention is not the only benefit however. Wellness also plays an important role in health recovery, the enjoyment of life and self improvement initiatives. These benefits apply to personal and family life as well as the work environment.
As a viable alternative to our healthcare system, wellness practices employ a more sustainable approach to putting us back in control of our own health. This can minimize healthcare bills by supporting prevention and recovery from disease and injury, as well as enabling self-improvement across various dimensions, helping us live and enjoy life to its full potential.
Optimizing wellness can help us thrive and enjoy life. We can also reduce the need for expensive hospital stays with the accompanying exposure to drugs, surgery, medical bills and loss in quality of life. Although everyone needs help from the healthcare system on occasion, it is also within our grasp to minimize the impact, frequency and duration of these episodic needs.
In addition to the individual benefits above, wellness holds the promise of improving our workplace environment, reducing public health issues and even addressing the growing need for change as relates to environmental issues. If you believe that the world’s oceans face a problem with plastic, that climate change is real, that our air and water could be cleaner, then you are in the right place.
Why ‘EWO’
EWO stands for ‘Eyes Wide Open’ and the enhanced awareness of wellness options and choices we hope to bring to our members via education, media and information sharing. We hope our services will open our members’ eyes to the opportunities and possibilities available to enhance wellness in their lives.
The vision for EWO originated from a desire to find solutions to the problem below.
“While only 20% of healthcare outcomes are the result of clinical care, this care consumes well over 80% of health-related spending. Although individuals usually directly control the factors responsible for more than 80% of health outcomes (outside the scope of clinics, doctors and hospitals), they do not have the knowledge, motivation or support to manage them. Our existing healthcare system was built to fix problems after they occur. It does not help avoid problems or optimize enjoyment and fulfillment in our lives.”
Dave Chase, CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream
Our Vision
Members of the EWO360 community are empowered every day to improve their health, optimize their wellbeing and enhance their enjoyment of life based on an improved awareness of wellness choices via media, articles and community participation as well as access to highly qualified, vetted service providers, who can help diagnose and assess your current health and build a plan to guide your future wellness journey.
Our vision is to educate and inspire you to choose from a variety of options to redesign your habits, activities, choices and lifestyles to achieve a state of holistic health so that you can reduce your dependency on the traditional healthcare system with its high costs and exposure to unneeded drugs and hospital visits.
EWO Services & Benefits
Education and inspiration
via articles and stories
Learn about wellness choices, and
trends. Be inspired by stories of the
changes possible in your own life.
Community-based Q&A,
advice and interactions
Ask questions, get answers and
support from the EWO community,
including wellness providers.
Highly rated, vetted
service providers (and soon, products)
Find generalist and specialist providers
and supporting products to help
plan, manage and achieve goals.
Launching EWO360
Our Seattle launch is planned for 2025. It has been a long journey and there are many more features we want to launch, including the integration of AI-based services.
The size and complexity of the wellness industry continues to grow as do a continuously evolving set of services and products. Our mission is to guide you to make the best choices for yourself and your family, while avoiding the pitfalls.
Future events and dates will be posted in our blog, to keep readers informed of important developments. Feel free to contact us, if you have experiences you think will add value to where we are going. We would love to hear your thoughts. Click on the relevant button below if you have Content Team experience or if you would like to help test the platform
Updates & Announcements
Our Alpha environment is launching this month (Jan 2025). Alpha users are being added in batches so we can fix reported issues before adding larger batches later.
If you want to be an Alpha user or an Alpha service provider, please click on the ‘Early Member Invitation’ button and let us know so we can schedule your onboarding. We hope to go live with a public launch later this year.
Service providers: We would love to have you register and help us test the features built for doing business on the site to market your services and grow your customer base. Joining now will ensure your voice is heard early so we can prioritize your feature requests.
Early member invitation
Help us reimagine ideas and features while testing out our site
We are looking for users and service providers who want to help us exercise our Alpha site before it is launched later this year. If you are interested in wellness and would like to immerse yourself in features related to wellness journeys, please sign up.
Call for content team members
Inspire consumers to adopt wellness practices in their lives!
If you have previously worked in a content team in any of the following areas writing, illustrating, publishing or as an Editor, do contact us and let’s chat.
These are contract positions, key to our stability and growth.
