Tools and Resources

Native American Wellness Traditions

Wellness may be a new focus for the mental health field, but a holistic idea of health as well as practices that support wellness have been passed along for centuries within Native American traditions. Maria Trevizo of the Native Wellness Institute has shared some Native American approaches to wellness, including a Medicine Wheel, a Healing Matrix and an "I am More" Flower Graph.

Hearts & Minds:

• Watch Video
• A Roadmap to Wellness for Individuals Living with Mental Illness
  Download PDF | Purchase Booklets (Qty. 25)
• Hearts & Minds Facilitator's Guide
  Download PDF | Purchase Booklet and DVD
• Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Fact Sheet
• Smoking Cessation Fact Sheet
• Substance Abuse Fact Sheet
• Healthy Eating Fact Sheet
• Exercise Fact Sheet

Individual Tools and Tip Sheets:

• Goal-setting Work Sheet
• Sample Food Journal
• Sample Exercise Journal
• My Health Notes

Helpful Links and Additional Information:

• American Heart Association
• American Diabetes Association
• Exercise is Medicine
• Mayo Clinic Healthy Eating
• National Institute of Health, National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
• National Diabetes Education Program
• National Institute on Alcoholism and Addiction, NIH Research on Addiction
• Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at University of California, San Francisco
• OptumHealth Wellness Solutions

Acknowledgements

A Roadmap to Wellness for Individuals Living with Mental Illness

Written by Ken Duckworth, M.D.

Editors: Katrina Gay, Sarah Heckenberg, Courtney Reyers, Diana Yap

With additional thanks to:

Michael J. Fitzpatrick, M.S.W., Executive Director, NAMI

Eden Evins, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

David Henderson, M.D., Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Steve Schroeder, M.D., Smoking Cessation Leadership Institute Center
University of California, San Francisco

Marilyn Ricci, M.S., R.D.

Lelia Sharp, Melinda Ratini, D.O., & Editorial Team
OptumHealth

Michael Rosen, M.D., & Clinical Affairs Team
OptumHealth

Special thanks to Erin Beck, Douglas Bradley, Karen Costa, Susan Gaffney, Julie Hyman, Arlene Krohmal and Alice Silver-Heilman, and a very special thanks to the Hearts & Minds pioneers, Kathryn McNulty, Steve Miller and Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D.

Web design: Donald Lamm and Chuck Carroll, NAMI Web team

Graphic design: Cindy Stone Designs

Video production: Double R Productions

Video replication: Veni Graphics

This project was made possible with support from Optum Health Public Sector and the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center -- University of California. NAMI does not endorse or promote any specific medication, treatment, product or service.