The Six Dimensions of Health & Wellness

Doc Pratt Ministries' original curriculum, The Six Dimensions of Health & Wellness, is a transformative guide designed to guide clients to discover and develop their God-given identity and calling and to evaluate each dimension for what needs healing, repair, or growth and establish healthy goals and habits to meet and sustain those goals. By integrating emotional, mental, physical, vocational, social, and financial wellness, clients are empowered to align their passions, gifts, and values with God's plan for their lives. This holistic approach fosters confidence, balance, and a deep sense of purpose, enabling individuals to thrive in every area of life while establishing a sustainable, smooth path toward their unique, clearly-defined, horizon-level goals. 

The Six Dimensions of Health & Wellness intertwine and affect each other, so no Dimension can exist alone. This curriculum is designed to go through all six Dimensions in a cursory fashion first to establish a basic functioning plan for each dimension. We then attend to each dimension in order, from Emotional Wellness to Financial Wellness, a few times through at increasing depth until each dimension has achieved a status of Thriving and a maintenance plan has been structured and implemented. Because life shifts so frequently and takes our attention away from these foundational structures in our lives, the maintenance should include an annual (or semi-annual) in-depth review of the curriculum as well as intentional reminders on a daily/weekly basis.

A. Identity - Knowing yourself thoroughly is the key to overall health and wellness. Personality traits, strengths, weaknesses, and unique values all lie in the center of your being and directly affect the success in every dimension of life.

B. Emotion recognition & definition - Emotions are indicators much like a car’s dashboard lights. Learning to recognize and define emotions in the moment facilitates proactive measures for wellness rather than reacting haphazardly.

C. Spiritual Wellness - Doc Pratt Ministries offers an optional individual or group Christian discipleship program which uses varied resources from Bible Project Classroom, A Discipleship Journey, The Chosen, and more.

A. Choosing a Life of Inspirational Influence (Pratt, 2025) - Living a life of inspirational influence occurs by beginning within, gaining solid footing, considering external influences, planning sustenance, and building your team for the journey ahead.

B. Atomic Habits (Clear, 2018) - Building good habits and breaking bad ones through small, incremental changes that compound over time. Success is less about willpower and more about designing effective systems and environments to support positive behavior. The Four Laws (Clear, 2018) teach how confidence and success can be achieved in these ways.

C. Cognitive Health - Feeding your brain to keep it agile, strong, and resilient.

A. Nutrition - Glucose Revolution (Inchauspé, 2022) and The MIND Diet (Moon, 2016) provide solid research-based wisdom on eating for physical health. Simple tricks like learning to eat meals in the correct order makes remarkable improvements.

B. Exercise - The childhood basics of just move and have fun are employed to care for the only body we’ll ever have.

C. Medical - Specified ways to navigate the medical world to benefit your health without feeling like a hypochondriac. The Body Keeps the Score (VanDerKolk, 2014) and peer-reviewed, current research studies teach about the connection between the first three Dimensions: Physical Health, Emotional Wellness, and Mental Health.

A. Calling - StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Gallup & Rath, 2017), skills, values, academic gifts, spiritual gifts all feed into your passion.

B. Career - Sometimes a person’s calling and their career is one in the same. Whether yours is or not, your job is much more than a means to pay your bills. Proximity Principle (Coleman, 2019), when coupled with the valuable information gained thus far through The Six Dimensions of Health & Wellness, guides the search for a fulfilling career.

C. Seasons - High school guidance counselors will have a young, naïve student believe they have only one chance to choose their lifelong career correctly. In reality, life has seasons and provides space for planning career shifts.

A. Three intimacy levels - Whether introverted, extroverted, or ambiverted, we all need an innermost 1-3 person circle, a crew of approximately 12, and a larger community to belong to.

B. Communication skills - Why Don’t We Listen Better? (Petersen, 2022) and An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication (Schultze & Badzinski, 2015) guide learning how to strengthen relationships with quality communication.

C. Seasons - Relationships ebb and flow through life, whether by design or necessity. Boundaries (Cloud & Townsend, 2017) and Necessary Endings (Cloud, 2011) begin the deliberation of letting go versus cultivating relationships.

A. Money plan - Establishing, practicing, and maintaining a personalized plan for handling finances that serves your desires and goals well. Financial Peace University and Confidence & Success in Money & Retirement (Pratt, 2022) teach how.

B. Visualizing your horizon - Using a white board and colorful markers, we forget about boundaries and dream about your ideal horizon-level goals and set a plan in motion to achieve them. Everyday Millionaires (Hogan, 2019) and Retire Inspired (Hogan, 2016) bolster this effort.

C. Planning for Retirement in ALL the ways - Retirement involves much more than just good financial planning (Pratt, 2022).