Highway to Well: "Fall on Me,” with Craig Becker

Highway to Well, Episode 27: "Fall on Me," with Craig Becker

"There's the progress. We have found a way to talk around the problem. Building towered. Foresight isn't anything at all." - "Fall on Me," by REM

What if we could re-capture what wellness is really about? What if we could strive to add more good, rather than focus on less bad? What if we moved away from a zero-sum prevention model to one that is expressive? Collaborative? Creative? Innovative? Isn’t that what wellness was, and always has been about?

In this episode of "Highway to Well," Craig Becker and I traverse these questions as we discuss his work in, and the value of salutogenesis. Salutogenesis is the study of the origins of health and how it can be generated. Salutogenesis can cause chronic wellness, which is persistent positive conditions enabled through engagement in health causing actions, by helping us know what environments, behaviors and thoughts improve health and well-being.

Craig is a professor of Health Education & Promotion at East Carolina University. He has written for over100 national and international publications and provided presentations about how to create or cause health and generate positive outcomes,  not just avoiding bad results. Craig has also developed a vast amount of tools and resources, including a wide collection of videos and blogposts. 

For more on Craig, visit: 

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ895721.pdf 

https://www.youtube.com/user/BeWellr/videos 

https://positivehealthleadership.wordpress.com/ 

For more "Highway to Well," podcasts, visit: 

https://www.derekbellwellness.com/ 

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