Being well means being free.
Changing the well-being narrative to foster true and lasting transformation and freedom.
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Completing this brief survey.
Send the survey to your community, network, family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. The more participants, the better!
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The next phase of Dr. C’s well-being research has begun, welcoming a diverse national sample to inform the future of this well-being work!
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True well-being is a state of freedom: the ability to express, connect, innovate, and savor with calm, clarity, courage, and creativity.
When we know that this is what we’re aiming for, we can develop the skills and dispositions to foster well-being and more freely live out our potential.
—Dr. Bridget Colacchio
Why this work matters…
Artwork credit
“Flowers for mom”
Kalhan’s painting on canvas
We all want to do well.
In our personal and professional lives, for our families, our communities, and ourselves. But sometimes, even when we’ve checked all the boxes of “success,” we still feel empty, lost, or like something’s missing. Research shows historic levels of isolation, disengagement, and discontent.
Having the right title, paycheck, pant size, zip code, social media following, or morning routine just aren’t enough.
But why?
One explanation is that we have defined well-being in ways that don’t resonate with our lived experience. So, we are aiming for the wrong goal. When we recalibrate our understanding of well-being, we can move in a more accurate and fulfilling direction.
The Way to Well-being© provides that direction, centering the most fundamental experience of well-being — freedom — and outlining a path to get there: your whole true story, relational safety©, and self-worth.
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