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This new resource is
your starting point
for participating in
Women of the ELCA's
health initiative,
Raising Up Healthy
Women and Girls. It
is a guide to having
healthy dialogue in
your community about
women's total
health: physical,
emotional, and
spiritual. Our
Journey to Wellness
will help ground
your understanding
of women's total
wellness in
non-threatening,
intergenerational,
faith-centered
dialogue.
The four women who
wrote this resource
are advocates for
women's health and
for Women of the
ELCA taking on this
heart-healthy
challenge.
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The Rev. Mary
Stein-Webber,
part-time pastor
of Trinity
Lutheran Church,
licensed
counselor, and
director of A Safe
Place to Heal
Christian
Counseling in
Oakland, Calif.,
helps us explore
emotional health.
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The Rev. Ginger
Anderson-Larson,
director for
spiritual
formation and
associate director
of contextual
education at
Wartburg Seminary
in Dubuque, Iowa,
leads us through
spiritual health.
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Dr. Gwen Wagstrom
Halaas, a family
physician in St.
Paul, Minn., and
author of The
Right Road: Life
Choices for Clergy
(Fortress Press,
2004), shapes our
discussion on
physical health.
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Tammy Devine,
diaconal minister,
registered nurse,
and wellness
coordinator for
the ELCA Board of
Pensions in
Minneapolis,
designed a process
to facilitate
fruitful dialogue
toward making a
difference.
Our Journey to
Wellness
is a free resource. Look for a copy in the spring 2006 mailing, which
should arrive in
your congregation
mid- to late April.
Or download a PDF
file by clicking on
the "Printable
Version" icon in the
right-hand column. The
contributors,
who
also will be
presenters for our
Raising Up Healthy
Women and Girls
events in late
summer and early
fall (watch for
details to come in
May), challenge us
to explore all
aspects of our
health.
This
resource may be used
as a Women of the
ELCA unit program,
as part of a cluster
or conference event,
or as part of a
synodical women's
convention. Use it
also with your
confirmation class,
young adults
(especially those
entering their first
profession), with
congregation council
members, or
congregation
committees. You may
choose to discuss
this over several
sessions or over the
course of a weekend,
perhaps as a
retreat.
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