Your Personalized Wellness Plan: Finding What Truly Supports You
- kyliet303
- Jun 9
- 4 min read
These days, it seems like everyone has advice on how to be healthy. One person swears by a new supplement, while another insists a strict diet will change your life. With so much conflicting information, it’s hard to know what’s actually helpful, or even safe, let alone what’s right for you.
But what if you didn’t need to rely on external rules? What if your wellness plan could start with you?
Why Personalization Is the Missing Piece
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve shared the Dimensions of Wellness framework. What it is and how it can be applied to daily life. But the real magic happens when we personalize it.
We are each wired differently — biologically, behaviorally, and emotionally. Even our genetic expression is unique, influenced by both inherited traits and environmental factors. From epigenetics to psychology to ancient wisdom, the message is the same: our needs are not one-size-fits-all.
So why should our health routines be?
Sure, humans share common needs like rest, nourishment, and connection. But how we meet those needs depends on things like our energy levels, life circumstances, preferences, and trauma history. Learning to tailor your approach to meet your unique needs is where sustainable transformation begins.
That’s why personalization matters and why it’s the step so often skipped in wellness culture.
My Turning Point with Personalization
About four months after my dad passed away in 2021, I joined a local fitness challenge. At the time, I was deeply grieving, experiencing flare-ups in my health, navigating a trauma bond, and unknowingly living with CPTSD. I joined that challenge as a way to help myself heal, but it ended up hurting more than helping.
The challenge involved working out several times per week and following a highly restrictive diet. With a gluten allergy, my options were even more limited than others’. I was told to drink more water and “mentally push through” when I voiced my struggles with cravings and feeling more fatigued the further in I got.
I didn’t “succeed” in that program, and I wasn’t alone. Many others dropped out or reverted to old habits shortly after it ended. It wasn’t us who failed; it was the plan that failed us. It lacked compassion, flexibility, and personalization, and that experience became a powerful catalyst in my healing journey.
Where Real Wellness Begins
The truth is, we can’t force ourselves into health through restriction, shame, or generic advice. We need to start where we are. We need tools that support autonomy, adaptability, and self-awareness.
That’s the heart of a personalized wellness plan and why I created the Dimensions of Wellness Guide. It’s a 30-page free resource that includes self-assessments for each dimension, reflection prompts, and action tools. It’s designed to help you get clear on your unique needs so you can build a wellness routine that fits your life.
A 3-Part Framework for Personalizing Your Wellness
Let’s walk through how to start building a personalized plan using the Dimensions of Wellness:
1. Identify Your Season of Life
Your needs will shift with your season — physically, emotionally, spiritually, and circumstantially. Are you in a period of recovery, expansion, burnout, or growth? Recognizing this helps you approach wellness with compassion instead of unrealistic expectations.
✧ Example: Someone in a demanding caregiving season may need to focus on prioritizing gentle movement, rest, and boundaries more than intense workouts and filling their social calendar.
2. Choose 1–2 Priority Dimensions to Focus On
It’s easy to get overwhelmed when trying to “do it all.” Instead, use your current challenges or reflections from the guide’s self-assessments to identify 1–2 areas needing the most care.
✧ Focus on where small shifts will make the biggest impact, not what looks most impressive.
3. Select Actions That Align With You
Sustainable habits are built from alignment, not pressure. Choose supportive actions that feel doable and relevant to your life. It should be simultaneously challenging and achievable; this combination is how we grow. This could be 10 minutes of morning movement, a weekly check-in with a friend, or reducing screen time before bed.
✧ Don’t force someone else’s routine. Instead, build one that honors your time, values, and energy.
A Gentle Reminder
You are not a machine, and your wellness plan shouldn’t treat you like one. You’re allowed to shift, reassess, and redefine what well-being looks like at any moment. That’s not failure — that’s what personalization is.
There’s a big difference between something that stretches you and something that harms you. Challenge fosters growth, but misalignment or force can cause setbacks. Listening to your body and inner wisdom is what helps you tell the difference.
🔮 What’s Coming Next
This article wraps up our three-part series on the Dimensions of Wellness, but in many ways, it is just the beginning.
Over the next few months, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into each of the dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, environmental, and occupational. Each week, we’ll explore what that dimension means, how it connects to your overall well-being, and practical ways to care for it in daily life.
This series will also lay the foundation for my first full-length course. A guided journey through the eight dimensions of wellness with tools, knowledge, and habit-building support to help you create lasting change.
So, whether you're just getting started or ready to deepen your wellness practice, more support and insight are coming your way—one dimension at a time.
If you haven’t already, download the free guide to start building a wellness plan that supports your full self—physically, emotionally, mentally, and beyond.
🌱 You are the expert on your own experience. Let’s stop chasing perfect plans and start honoring what truly helps.
Stay tuned, and make sure you’re subscribed to Aligned with Bliss – MCB Weekly to follow along.
This newsletter is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult qualified healthcare professionals when making decisions about your health. This space is here to complement, not replace, your care.
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