WEEKLY HEALTHY LIVING CHECK-IN OCTOBER 8TH, 2022

🎃 This past week went pretty well... Kept up with activities, workouts, step-goals, & Appt's. I feel like I am finally getting back on track with things in the way I desire. And also in the way that I'm used to since taking a long personal break for myself....

👻 The weather has continued to be AMAZING here. Sunny, mild, and so pretty. Its been so easy to continue to stay active and make goals.... I haven't closed my Pool yet for the season, I guess I was holding out for hope that I could get in a few last swim days, but being able to swim here through the most part of September was more than I could've hoped for I suppose. As the water is surely too cold to continue any more this year. However, I'm Continuing to keep up with my AQUA ZUMBA classes, and continuing to keep up with Daily walks and getting conditioned again by increasing my cardio.

🍂 This weekend is a long weekend here, so we started today (Friday) off with a nice last minute Fall drive to the Beach~ The weather was so amazing, beautiful and sunny. The wind and the "Waves" were nice, calm and mild. Which made for the perfect Beach day by the Ocean~ This weekend there are many various Fall Festivals continuing around different towns. And we will get out and about to attend some. And wherever else the weekend leads us~

@PoliteOcean

This past week went great I was able to share my journey with others and was able to help them tremendously. We all have our own paths that we are living and you can choose greatness. My sister-in-law was going down the wrong path in life I was starting to see that she was spiraling out and she was not the same person that she was. She needed a reminder of self-love to take care of herself and starts being happy again. I was able to share with her positivity mindfulness gratitude and being happy for today living in the moment. After our conversation she was so grateful for the information that I passed to her and I feel blessed to be able to share that with her.

@PoliteOcean Here’s how the past week went. I was consistent with my devotional time. My two new prayer booklets arrived but they're pretty small. Sunday I went for a walk through my neighborhood. I’m happy to announce that I read my poetry book five days this week. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday I studied art history. Wednesday and Thursday I studied philosophy of art and also went for a walk. Friday Tunde called in sick, but I didn’t have anything critical to take care of, so it’s cool. Saturday I went for a walk through my neighborhood. I didn’t have any conflict with Leslie this week. One thing I’m happy about is Alan didn’t request a TV for our bedroom. I have a happy balance between entertainment and quiet. I need a lot of rest, and but I also need noise to drown out my pain signals. I got a call from my clinic and they said I could start therapy if I have any new issues to discuss. My efforts to find a new therapist have come to a stop because I’ve run out of leads. Whoever choses to take me on as a client is going to have to read the past two years of medical files. If not, then we have nothing to talk about. I sent an email to two local churches to try to set up a pastoral counseling appointment but I never heard back from them. I have no appointments for this upcoming week. Saturday morning Dennis walked through the living room with a paper towel between his buttocks. He sat down and put his pants on.

Hey PO, thanks for the post and tag, and everyone for being here and sharing in this experience called life; it's not easy sometimes and deserves recognition, celebration, and more.

I'm going to try 🤣 answer this (🍂 How was your First Week of October?! .....What was the BEST thing that happened for you this week?) question.

My first week of October was good. The best thing about it is I think I may have my basic needs basically met.

Having food, shelter, water and clothing is good; I haven't always had these things consistently so that's amazing.

To be lucky and have worked hard and smart enough to have my own place to live is something I'm allowed credit for.

I think this is a big achievement (Elon Musk doesn't even have a home) and deserves recognition and celebration.

I'm very hard on myself; have shame, pity parties and play the blame-shame game: I have a lot of background noise.

So this first week of October has been good because I've been actively challenging that noise and hanging on.

I'm going to just keep going and working on myself and challenging my noise even though at times it seems futile.

The past week has also been good because I've been learning about my cultural identity.

As someone with four different heritages to learn from I'm glad the overwhelm is making way to real growth and learning.

I studied a bit about one of my ancestors from the 1700's and about the food of another one of my cultures.

I've also been volunteering again on 7 cups after a self care break. It's good to be back. I didn't know if I could do it.

Speaking of volunteering I'm going to wrap this up as I'm doing so until 7pm, then going for ice cream to celebrate.

I know poisoning myself with sugary ice cream is a stupid way to celebrate but that is the best I can do so it's good.

Thanks so very much everyone who read this, who will read it and everyone, everything and everywhere else. 💗 🙏🏼

@PoliteOcean