I can't talk…
September 4th, 2008
I can’t talk right now – it makes me cough, as I’m at home recovering from pneumonia – second time in three years, and it’s no fun! But I can write…
I believe when we’re stressed emotionally, as we are when in grief – any kind of grief – our physical bodies suffer. So what must we do for our emotional health? Well, one way is to do what we can to improve our physical health – many people enjoy a simple walk, a stroll. That’s great! Do it – do it today! Just a pleasant, leisure stroll around the block will surely do wonders for the physical body and the emotions, which work together – they either help each other, or they hinder each other. What ideas do you have, to foster healthy emotions and physical health?
September 7th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Good Morning Hatch, I totally agree with the body-mind relationship and that one can improve or harm the other. We lost our 5 month old in May this year and for the past months we have been so swamped with grief, sadness, and just pure loss that we to some extent neglected our physical well-being. We both have been to the doctor, my wife had surgery, and I am on medication which for all our lives we have been healthy, happy, and well…most of the time wise.
I have started walking again and let me tell you it has been one of the best mood lifters I have ever found. It also lets me talk with GOD and myself and try if possible to put Zach’s death inot some perspective. My wife has been scrapbooking, crocheting, and seriously involved with the youth in our church which has been a blessing. I think distractions are a great way to take a mental vacation and if you take care of yourself physically these distractions can last a along time.
Hatch, please take care of yourself…and thank you and all your staff at WHB they are truly wonderful when you need them.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:30 am
You sound well enough – that’s all you have to be, well enough – good enough! Before I go further, please rest assured you have my most sincere Sympathy in the loss of your dear sweet Zach.
You wrote of how walking provides a mental vacation, and it made me wonder if perhaps you got it just backwards. I’d like to think that grief is the vacation – not much of one, obviously, but – well… I guess we could call grief the vacation from Hell – we’ve all heard people complain about some nice trip they took, which included some horrible detour, turning the whole thing into what they describe as the vacation from Hell. And they were so glad to return home just as we’ll surely be just as glad, if not (much) more so, to return from our grief!
For balance, I guess when our heart hurts as it will when we’re in grief, we should exercise it physically, huh!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Hatch,
Well heller there…I do hope that you are feeling better, if not, it would be a pleasure to bring you some chicken soup.
I love what you said about how physical and emotional health are linked together. I firmly agree that the state of ones emotions can directly affect ones physical health.
Oh, btw, I wasn’t aware that when typing/writing it required one to talk…guess ya learn something new everyday.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Oh thank you – yes, I’m (finally) better! I’ve been fighting this pneumonia 13 days (not that I’m counting or anything)! I started feeling better Tuesday, and today I feel much better – thanks!