How do you find true well-being when "healthy" means more than just a gym membership?

0:00 – Trailer

0:38 – Intro: Faith. No Filter.

2:34 – The myth of physical wellness

6:03 – Depressed but physically fit

7:23 – From gym manager to chaplain

11:08 – Dunn’s dimensions of wellness

13:00 – When a health crisis shatters your worldview

15:29 – The dark side of financial wellness

24:08 – The PERMA Model of Flourishing

26:05 – Spiritual well-being: meaning & purpose

34:02 – Wellness is a journey

In this episode of Filthy Hope, hosts Rev Ness Williams-Henke and Rev Jon Humphries unpack the myth that wellness is simply about physical health. Drawing from Ness’s background in corporate wellness and medical exercise physiology, they explore how fitness, financial success, and productivity can still coexist with anxiety, depression, or spiritual emptiness. Together they examine Dunn’s dimensions of wellness and the PERMA model of flourishing, asking what it truly means to live well as whole, integrated human beings.

This episode challenges the idea that not being unwell equals being well, and invites listeners into a deeper, more holistic vision of wellness rooted in meaning, purpose, relationships, and spiritual depth. The conversation concludes with an emphasis on spiritual health as a sense of meaning and purpose, requiring "grit" to practice and "grace" to recover when you inevitably stumble.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Martin Seligman – The "Father of Positive Psychology" and the PERMA model for flourishing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – The legendary researcher behind the concept of "Flow."

Barbara Fredrickson – Author of Love 2.0 and expert on the 10 positive emotions.

Sonja Lyubomirsky – Leading scientist on the psychology of human happiness.

Halbert L. Dunn – The pioneer of "High-Level Wellness" and the wellness wheel.

Dr. Benjamin Spock – The intersection of morality and psychology.

John Main – Benedictine monk who revived the ancient practice of Christian Meditation.

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