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My Story: Personal Health Inventory

A tool to assess your whole health and health goals

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Use this circle to help you think about your whole health.

  • “Me” at the center of the circle: This represents what is important to you in your life, and may include your mission, aspirations, or purpose. Your care focuses on you as a unique person.
  • Mindful awareness is about noticing what is happening when it happens.
  • Your everyday actions make up the small white circles. Your options and choices may be affected by many factors.
  • The next ring is professional care (tests, medications, treatments, surgeries, and counseling). This section includes complementary approaches like acupuncture and yoga.
  • The outer ring includes the people, places, and resources in your community. Your community has a powerful influence on your personal experience of health and well-being.

A diagram of concentric circles illustrating the whole health model. Me at the center, surrounded by mindful awareness. Surrounded by eight circles representing areas of self-care. Surrounded by a circle representing prevention, treatment, and conventional and complementary approaches. Surrounded by the outermost circle representing community, culture, and environment.


Keywords:
personal health inventory, PHI, integrative health, whole health, circle of health, health goals, self-care, professional care, mindful awareness, community, culture, environment, conventional approaches, complementary approaches 
Doc ID:
149426
Owned by:
Sara A. in Osher Center for Integrative Health
Created:
2025-03-28
Updated:
2025-05-23
Sites:
Osher Center for Integrative Health