In this episode of BYU-Idaho Radio’s The Spot Podcast, Savannah McCauley, Bea Mattos, Breanna Latouche and Maiya Waddell talk about how health plays an impact during our enrollment at BYU-Idaho.
There are many components to our health and well-being on campus, which include physical, mental, spiritual and even financial.
There are many great suggestions for improving one’s physical health here on campus. “For me, I typically just like go on walks. I really go to the gym that often I should, but I typically would just go on walks around BYU Idaho,” Maiya said.
Another thing one can do is to add healthier things to one’s diet with exercise.
“You can eat a donut. Just eat some fiber with it, and it'll help it digest a little better,” Savannah said.
This can bring physical health benefits but just as important is mental health as well.
Mental health can touch us in ways that physical can’t. It can affect our academic performances and our relationships with God and family and friends as well.
“Sometimes, I'll call my mom or anything like that if I need to talk something through. And if I don't, I'll honestly just take a break, like watch a show or read a book, anything that just kind of can get my mind on anything but the thing that I'm constantly thinking of,” Breanna said.
Being aware of what anxiety and depression bring to the table can help in the long term. Getting help with your mental health can be a great blessing and encourage you to become better able to do homework and enjoy life.
Spiritual health can also be important as well. Fostering a relationship with God can take time and effort but it’s worth it.
“I've been really working hard to maintain daily scripture study, and I've been told a lot that it doesn't really matter how much you read at the end of the day, as long as you read a chapter, verse, you know, just anything that you can,” Bea said.
Even financial health is needed to keep going to school and to live a decent and happy life.
“Something that I've learned that helps me save money in the long run is buying groceries in bulk at Sam's Club. It's expensive at first, but as you do it the long in the long run, you actually you're saving a lot of money because you're buying things in bulk,” Savannah said.
Overall, if the health of people in these categories is at the right places and levels, college life’s edge will be taken off and things will look a lot brighter.