Providing wellness services to your clients means getting their buy-in to do a lot of "new stuff." You're working with them to improve their level of exercise, eat healthier foods, get more sleep, and perhaps make other additions to their current lifestyle. But another big part of wellness involves subtraction, or at least modification, of habits that are on the other end of the health spectrum.

These habits may be strongly ingrained and are not easily changed. They might more accurately be called addictions—even though that's a hot-button word because it's so often associated with drugs and alcohol. (APTA, in fact, has built an award-winning multimedia campaign—#ChoosePT—around promoting physical therapy as a viable, nonpharmalogical alternative to pain management, given the nationwide crisis of opioid addiction.)

One definition of addiction at Merriam-Webster.com is "an unusually great interest in something, or a need to do or have something." So, many if not most of us realistically are addicted to 1 thing or another. Thinking about your own life, is it possible that you're addicted to 1 or more of the following?