Your Health Is In Your Hands

There’s a poster I’ve seen so many times at work, you probably have too. It’s a simple image of two clean hands with the words: “Your health is in your hands.”

At first glance, it’s a reminder about hand hygiene; wash before you eat, after you touch, before you care. But the more I looked at that poster, the more its message started to speak to me powerfully.

Because truly… your health is in your hands.

All of it.

Physical health

Yes, that means scrubbing for 20 seconds, cleaning under your nails, washing before meals, after restroom breaks, and before touching your face. As nurses, we know how fast infections can spread. But it’s also about the small daily choices: what we eat, how much we move, how we rest. Those are all forms of “hand hygiene,” tiny acts of prevention and protection.

Mental health

In your hands, too. The thoughts you let linger, the conversations you entertain, the boundaries you honor. Do your hands reach for your phone the second you wake up, or do they press against your heart for a few deep breaths first?

Spiritual health

Absolutely in your hands. How often do you pause, reflect, and pray? Do you reach for stillness the way you reach for sanitizer? Do you cleanse your energy the way you cleanse your skin?

Financial health

In your hands as well. Every swipe, every purchase, every “I’ll deal with it later” is a choice that shapes your peace of mind. Just like skipping handwashing once seems harmless, until it’s not.

Relationship health

Also in your hands. How you communicate, listen, forgive, and show up… those are all touch points. Are your hands open, ready to heal? Or closed off, protecting old wounds?

Every shift, I see stories that remind me of this truth.

A patient who lost their leg but still smiles every morning and wheels themselves to physical therapy, their health is in their hands.

Another who gave up, who let the world decide for them, their health slipped away through their fingers.

And it makes me wonder, for all of us,

Do we leave things up to fate?

Or do we take gentle, consistent responsibility for what we can control?

Maybe the real message isn’t just about hand hygiene, it’s about ownership.

Your health, your peace, your life, they all start with what’s already in your hands.

So, maybe today, before you wash your hands… pause for just a second.

Look at them.

Feel the life they hold, the power they carry, the care they give.

And remember, your hands are sacred.

They can heal others, yes… but they can also heal you.

Your health is in your hands.

Always has been. Always will be.

With Care,

Mika