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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, June 24, 2011

Part II Of Unit 9 Post


       I.            Assessment:

a.      How have you assessed your health in each domain?
By using the integral assessment in chapter 11, I followed the six principles of integral assessment as I guided myself through a meditative process of reflecting inward into my mind so that I might evaluate my needs and strengths. My goal during the assessment was to discover which aspect of my life needed the most work. Which aspect is causing me the most stress and pain, and where do I have the most potential for growth and development. I did this with as much openness and unbiased influences as possible, looking into my spiritual and psychological self as well as addressing my physical needs and strengths.
b.      How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically? On a scale from one to ten with one being the lowest.
My physical well-being is around a 4 or 5. I am overweight and do not feel good most of the time, I suffer from headaches and stress. My spiritual well-being is still difficult for me to assess as I have trouble distinguishing it separately from my religious ideas of spirituality.  I would still rate myself at a 7 because I am happy for the most part with the world around me, I can accept others for their strengths and weaknesses, but at the same time I am getting better at standing up for myself and not backing down when I believe I am right.
I am still working on feeling that I belong, that I am accepted by others and in trusting others with my inner self. Socially I am better at taking care of other people than I am myself, I prefer to see the best in a person and when I have to deal with a problem with another person I always try to validate what I value in them as well as trying to work with them towards a mutual agreement.
Psychological well-being; I again believe I rate around a 7 psychologically, I have issues I am working on, such as self- regulation, social anxiety, accepting myself and in believing others will accept me for who I am. With my successful progress at Kaplan I have more self-efficacy regarding my abilities and in my self-worth.
With the above being stated I believe I need the most work in my psychological development and that with this development my physical health will improve.  I suspect that most of my physical pain is due to my level of stress and lack of self –esteem.  I also believe this is the area I am the most ready to develop within myself.
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