The Eight Dimensions of Wellness

Healing from trauma is about more than reducing symptoms. Trauma can touch many parts of life at once: sleep and energy, relationships, work, finances, a sense of meaning. Recovery often reaches across those same areas.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) describes wellness in eight connected dimensions. The wheel below is not a scorecard. It is a way to notice where life feels steady, where it feels strained, and how progress in one area can support the others.