Chris M. Daley, PhD

7 Dimensions of Health and Wellness

Book in Progress

Bloomsbury, Expected 2027

Health is a seemingly simple concept that is actually far more complex than most people realize.  It is not simply an absence of disease and it does not have only three dimensions.  Body, mind, and spirit are useful concepts when examining health, but emotion, culture, community, and environment are just as important.  This book takes the reader on a journey through seven dimensions of health, including three inward-facing dimensions (physical, mental, and emotional), three outward-facing dimensions (cultural, environmental, and community), and the one dimension that bridges between inward and outward or individual and group, spiritual health.  This holistic perspective allows the reader to truly understand how each of these aspects of health – of life – interact to allow an individual to experience health like never before.

If you are someone who wants to be healthy, this book is for you!  7 Dimensions of Health and Wellness will teach you about holistic health from an anthropological perspective focused on cross-cultural concepts and examples of each dimension.  It explains how our health is determined by what has happened throughout human evolution and why we cannot ignore the millions of years that have led to our current needs, including those of our physical body and every other part of us.  Each chapter will give you the tools you need to get healthy in that dimension of health, culminating with an examination of how the dimensions interact and how you can determine which are most important to you at present.  You will be given challenges in each chapter that you can take on to improve your health immediately and guidance on developing goals for the future.  Understanding our own health and how it influences and is influenced by those around us and our environments is more important than ever as the world faces increased conflict and political instability, global health crises, a changing climate, and large-scale socioeconomic inequality.

Author

Christine Makosky Daley, PhD, MA, SM