My Story: Personal Health Inventory

A tool to assess your whole health and health goals

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The Personal Health Inventory is a tool that can help you understand why you really want or need your health.

It helps you step back from your health concerns, and think about your life. What really matters to you? What is your mission, aspiration, and/or purpose (MAP)?

The Personal health Inventory can help you create a roadmap to your healthiest life.

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Below is the Circle of Health. 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.

More Information:

Another document that can help you to understand your whole health is:

Whole Health: Integrative Care Starts With Me



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:
2026-06-11
Sites:
Osher Center for Integrative Health