Wellness Paper

Wellness Paper

Vivian Shakir

NUR 1022L

March 15, 2007

1. Living a purposeful life is what being healthy means to me. When I reflect upon my life, I realized that I did not always live my life with purpose. I was so overwhelmed with trials and tribulations that I failed to nourish my mind, body and spirit with purpose. Purpose is reaching out to family, friends and even strangers who have been there for me. I have found that much of the adversities I faced were created by me. I decided that in order for me to have some clarity in my life, I have to live it righteously. My life is enriched every time I do something that impacts someone else life in a positive way. My plight in life is to live the life God desires me to live and I plan to do just that with Purpose.

2. I am a forty-two year old African American female, one of three of my thirteen siblings, to be born inside of a hospital. My mother had always relied on the services of the local midwife, who just happen to be her maternal great aunt. I was raised in a small southern town in Georgia. My mother and father grew up in large families. She had sixteen siblings (three are deceased) and he had eleven siblings (eight now deceased including my father). Both of my parent's extended families have had to endure the typical diseases