Four Themes in the Vitality Pillar:

1. Grit

2. Agency

3. Appreciating Your Body

4. Stewardship

Topics covered in this pillar:

• What is vitality and why it is important for well-being.
• The negative impacts of judgments about your body, numbing, or indifference to your health.
• How to befriend your body. How to move through helplessness about improving your health and vitality.
• Ways to improve nutrition, exercise, and sleep.
• Considering how your lifestyle could be harming your body, and making realistic plans to change this.
• Growing an embodied sense of grit, determination, patience, and distress tolerance.
• The sympathetic nervous system (SNS). What is healthy passion. The key role of positive emotion during SNS activation.
• Exploring and releasing unnecessary or harmful inhibitions on feeling energized, enthusiastic, and passionate.