My life has been filled with challenges since January. It started with my getting sick a week before
a heavy schedule of classes and the busy season at work starting, followed by
my dad not doing well and eventually passing away, plus discovering a high
blood pressure problem and hot flashes are back! I know there were a few other things thrown
in by I cannot think of them at the moment.
The high blood pressure brought me back to my senses – well,
after initialing adding to my high blood pressure! I had been barely managing my stress level
until the last week before Dad died. The
news that he did not have much time pushed me over. In fact, the week before he died was harder
emotionally than when he died. Weird I know.
I suspect I am not letting it truly set in emotionally.
As I stated, realizing I was having problems with high blood
pressure brought me back to my senses on a lot of things. I had never had a high blood pressure problem
like this before, so I knew it was from stress.
Stress that came from MY perspective on the events happening in my life,
combined with my being overweight and not exercising.
I need to walk the talk, so to speak. I am always saying how we need to take care
of ourselves, but I have not been doing so.
I was stressing myself out about catching up on my homework, which in
reality is not as important as my health.
So I took a lower grade one week to help me get caught up. I am in ’training’ for walking the Bolder
Boulder, which I started this week. I
had joined Weight Watchers, however with the events of the past few weeks had
stopped actively participating in it.
Time to get back on track!! I
have a class on Journaling the Healing Self…I guess I should be using that as
an opportunity to heal myself!! I bought
a Tai Chi dvd, we’ll see how it goes.
Here’s keeping my fingers crossed and we will see how this goes!
