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When I first saw this it made me stop and think...to remember the friends who have stopped calling...to why I do certain things and to how my life has been impacted by my anxiety and my pain. I thought a lot! I'll be honest...sometimes my anxiety has stopped me from doing certain things and just being asked to go somewhere can actually cause me some anxiety at times. I instantly give thought to my pain and what it will be like. I think to what the environment will be like (I don't handle big loud crowds very well). I give thought to what I will need to help me cope and mange through it all and I think too to what I'll feel like when I come home...and I've stopped doing certain things. I say the words "take good care of you" a lot! and to me they are not just words...they are not empty... they are truly my wish for you. When I say the words "take good care of you"...it mean just this...be patient with yourself...go gentle on yourself...healing is an art and it will take time...and it does take practice. Be patient with you and love yourself too. Our healing will always be a daily thing and our needs will be too. Healing and recovery doesn't get a day off...it requires our efforts every minute of every day. Healing is an art. It does take time and it does take practice and you may even find that you will take four steps forward only to take two steps back...that is normal! and that is where your patience comes in. Be patient with yourself and love yourself enough to be gentle with you when it happens...because it will. Healing takes practice. We can't push or force ourselves through our healing, but we can be patient...and we can keep practicing...and while we do...we can learn to love ourselves. Please take good care of you and your needs too. Be patient with your healing but don't stop taking your steps...even the baby steps...because each one you take will see you through your healing journey. Healing is an art. It takes time. It takes practice. It takes love. Be patient with yourself, Sweet Soul. Go gentle... Please take good care of you. Thank you Butterflies and Pebbles for a much needed reminder! go check them out on Facebook Life is too short to argue and fight with the past. Count your blessings, value your loved ones, and move on with your head held high. ~~Unknown~~ Picture of my daughter and I...taken on the pond. Sometimes...I can get stuck in my head and I don't come out for days and lately I've been a little stuck. My thoughts are hectic and my worry is high and the hardest part is is that there is nothing I can do about what's going on. I have to just hang in there for now. I have to keep telling myself that everything will be okay and I will be too. That this will be just another thing that I will survive...and survive I will. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the tree on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~~John Lubbock~~ Picture taken on the pond. I've been told and I'm sure you have been too...and maybe what we've heard is different, but the message is the same...why don't you exercise, it'll help your pain. And you know what? It is true. Exercise does help to keep us more mobile and our range of motion moving too...but what if you're hurting? Does exercise help? Yes! Even when you're hurting...exercise can help.
Now I know your body hurts and it hurts to move some days too but you still have to keep moving okay? If you don't your body will only hurt more. Your muscles will become de-conditioned and your muscle mass will shrink. Joints become stiffer and our pain only increases. It hurts move...yes it does...but it hurts more not to. So...when you're hurting...what do you do? Do you keep your movements to a minimum so you hurt less? Do you move as you need to but do so carefully? How do you move when you're hurting? Do you still exercise? Personal questions I know but please do give them some thought okay? I'd like to share an article with you and although it's geared to people living with Fibro...please read it anyway and give thought to you what you're living with. Ask yourself some questions while you read it and then give thought to what you can do now and moving forward to increase your level of exercise. Now I'm not expecting you to go out and join a gym or become a work out guru, but I am encouraging you to give thought to what you can do to increase your activity level. I do ask that....
And please remember too...you don't have to go to a gym to exercise...grab some soup cans and do some arm curls...use a wall and do some push-ups...take a step in your house and go up and down just that one step a few times...go for a walk in your neighbourhood...put on some music and let it move you...do whatever makes you feel good but gets your body moving and that includes being intimate with your partner too. If you have any questions about what you read in the following article please speak to your doctor and/or treatment team. take good care of you okay? and get moving in your life |
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