Welcome

Hi and welcome to my very first blog!

I have created this blog as part of my class called Creating Wellness, I was not expecting to be asked to do this but I am excited to have the opportunity to learn about blogging and learning more about my classmates.

A little about me...

I am a Christian first and foremost, I struggle to be the person God wants me to be and I am a long ways from being perfect but I have confidence that God loves me and accepts me despite my many issues and imperfections. Having God in my life has given me balance, a safe haven from the traumas of life, peace, comfort, joy, a reason to fight for the important issues in my life. He is my rock and my strength, without Him I am nothing.

I am 47 years old and the mother of 2 wonderful children; Kenny, my oldest is 18 years old and graduates from High School in May of this year. Crystal my youngest is 15 years old and is in the 9th grade. I love them both and I am very proud of them.

I am in my second year at Kaplan and loving almost every minute of it.. I am working towards my BS in Psychology with an emphasis towards Applied Behavioral Analysis.

I chose to take this class because I was intrigued by the class and its approach towards healing with integral medicine. Being a psychology student I already have a basic understanding of whole health, believing that true health is not just a physical thing but also includes the mental aspect; which includes, emotional stability, social environmental, chemical, structural, and spiritual well being.


I am interested in using this class to learn how to heal myself and to find and create a wholeness within myself. Then to incorporate it into helping my children to find wholeness as well as interlacing it with what I am learning about psychology and behavior. With this combined knowledge and experience I hope to be able to reach out and help my future clients to find balance as I work with them regarding their behavioral issues, developmental and learning issues.


I am passionate about helping others because my daughter struggles with developmental delays, learning issues, and emotional problems as a result of contracting bacterial meningitis when she was 5 weeks old. During her first 3 years of life she was constantly on the brink of dying as she struggled with cysts in her brain. She is past most of the medical problems but struggles with being whole emotionally within herself. I want to be able to help her with what I learn and to extend myself out so that I can help other families and children as they struggle with similar emotional issues.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Personal Well Being Evaluation Unit 3

First I have to say I am terrible at rating anything on a scale like this but I will do my best.
To make this easier for myself I am going to give a key for how I am going to rate each level.

Key
1. On deaths door
2. Miserably sick, unable to function or able to care for myself, psychologically and or spiritually blind/lost
3. Miserable but able to function, psych and spiritually lost but I can see which way to go
4. Sick
5. Neutral, not good or bad, luck warm spiritually, holding my own psych but not happy
6. Physically better, improving but not humming, spiritually walking towards wholeness, psych more happy than sad, actively working towards wholeness psychologically and spiritually.
7. Body is healthy with only maintained minor issues, psych and spiritually satisfied but still struggling for wholeness, complete acceptance, selfless and self is getting closer to being balanced.
8. Almost to 9, working, improving, I know what to do and can see myself doing it.
9. Healthy, fit, comfortable, at peace, acceptance of self and others, have found integral health and working to keep it.
10. On top of the world, Euphoria, great, nothing could possibly be better ( I think this could only be found    in  Heaven).


My Evaluation

A.  My physical well-being I would have to say is about at about a 4, I hurt all over. Doc just gave me shots for arthritis and inflammation in my sacroiliac joint (this morning). I am overweight and don't feel good.

B. My spiritual well-being... It is hard for me to separate the definition from integral health with my religious definition, so if I get them confused.. I would have to rate it at about a 7. I am mostly happy with the world around me, I do struggle to except being alone and without a husband, I am great at helping others and seeing their need but not so good at just "being" with others. I am working on understanding myself better so that I can simply be without helping someone.

C. Psychological well-being.... Again I would have to rate myself at about a 7. I am working on anxiety, acceptance of myself, and being happy with myself,  I feel like my place in the world is on quick sand, that it can change at any moment, I am walking the path I think I should be going but I am not sure of myself.
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2 comments:

  1. RobinMay 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    Lisa - I am glad that you were honest about your physical evaluation of yourself. If you aren't honest with yourself, how will you get better? I liked your key for your evaluation - too funny! I would like to know what your goals are for improvement. What are you going to do about this 4 of yours?
    Sincerely,
    Robin Herrick

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  2. Lisa ZMay 8, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    Robin

    You are right about being honest with yourself. Thanks for your comment :) I am working on the next step of my post... I look forward to hearing your insight regarding what I post.
    Lisa

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