What is the definition of well-being? I reflect on this question and my own mental health journey in my most recent blog post.

For myself like many others, well-being was simply a concept until I was hospitalized for a mental health crisis that I surmised was my body and brain very literally reacting to all the stress and pressure I was putting myself under. It wasn’t until after I was hospitalized that I began to understand and re-define the meaning of well-being to myself. In the midst of my recovery, I felt like I was being forced to reevaluate my priorities in order to truly center my life around my well-being.

Core values should drive the mission, not the other way around. To make this a reality, it is essential for leadership to create spaces for purposefully reflecting on core values as individuals and as teams.