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.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Unit 10 Blog Posting

A review of my progress towards integral healing

  1. Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas . How did you score yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? 
I scored a 4 on health and a 7 for spiritual and psychological. I would score myself about the same today. I am still working improving my health with relaxation, meditation and the doctors help. My psychological health is slowly improving as I work toward whole health and my spiritual health is following the same path as they are interconnected in how I affect them and they affect me

  1. Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.
I have made some progress towards my goals but not as much as I had wanted to.  My back and SI joints have been hurting so much that I have been afraid to exercise for fear of agrivating the problem, my doctors  has told me the same...I have been doing the meditation I planned for myself but I am not good at sticking to a routine... so I have been doing it as I think about it through out the day.
  1. Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.
I have not implemented the activities as I would have liked.. but I am still working on them...my body has not been willing to comply.
  1. Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. I started off being very enthusiastic about this class and ready to put myself fully into it.Unfortunately I was side tracked by issues within the class and I lost my excitement for the class. I learned the principles and what was being taught but I lost my confidence in what was being taught.
  2. Have you developed improved well-being? In some areas yes,in other areas no..
  3. What has been rewarding? finishing the class and maintaining my integrity and belief in myself. 
  4. What has been difficult? keeping up with my goals and maintaining my motivation and interest in the class. 
  5. How will this experience improve your ability to assist others? By learning how to obtain whole health within myself I will be in better position to help others.
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2 comments:

  1. Lisa ZJune 27, 2011 at 7:12 PM

    I find it difficult to add to this evaluation, I still believe what I said. I will do my best to utilize what I have learned in this class for myself and others that I work with including my family and friends.


    Lisa

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  2. Lisa ZJune 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    second required comment for unit 10.
    sitting here looking out over shaver lake.. and all of Gods glory. I can appreciate what it might be like to find whole health. every thing works together the way God intended it to and This includes us having a balanced health and perspective for our lives. I will continue to work towards finding a balance in my life between my mental, psychological, and spiritual health.

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