The BodyMind Initiative is committed to developing and improving resilience, promoting and empowering self-care, and educating and supporting wellness in youth by providing experiential school activities, family resources, and community involvement.
Evidence shows that resilience development is correlated with higher levels of physical health and lower engagement in many unhealthy behaviors. In fact, resilient children and adolescents have positive values and skills in several realms including health and physicality.
When people believe they are worth taking care of, they make better choices for themselves. Self-care enables the development of resilience and the maintenance of wellness patterns for continued, sustainable change.
Pre-adolescence and adolescence are times of great physical and psychological change. These changes can affect the person’s wellness beliefs and behaviors. In addition, unbalanced eating, unhealthy exercise, and poor body image have become all too common.