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Staying healthy does not always mean focusing on your body alone. Rather, your emotional health needs some attention as well. If you feel good emotionally, chances are you feel physically better too. But can your emotional health truly effect your physical health?
Personally, I say yes. Yes, yes yes!
Case in point. I suffer from gastroparesis, or a slow emptying of the stomach. This is a clinically diagnosed chronic illness for which there is no cure. Some days are good and some are bad. But the bad days can easily be triggered by stress or neglect. If I drink too little water, don’t get enough exercise or eat an unhealthy diet, my stomach can begin a series of somersaults that are soon replaced by physical pain.
My daughter has a mild form of reflux in which she only needs medication a few times in the summer, at best. But the minute school begins, she starts to need her pills daily for the first two weeks. Why? She is stressed, which causes her stomach to contract and become painful.
Emotions are powerful things. If you feel elated, your body often feels strong and healthy. Whereas if you are overwhelmed or overworked, your body will probably show signs of weakness. This is when you are most susceptible to catching a cold or other illness.
Don’t you think this is as a perfect reason to get a massage this weekend? Or perhaps a pedicure, haircut or blow dry? Men, this means a big screen TV game is in order! Because your emotional health indeed effects your physical heath.
Surprisingly, my regular exercise in turn effects my emotional health. Every other day I power walk with my daughter in tow, ending with more than 100 crunches, weights and lower abdominal exercises. Some days it takes everything I have to start the process, but once I do I am happier, less stressed and feel both emotionally and physically better. So remember that physical fitness doesn’t just stop at exercise, but carries over to your mental health. Take time for yourself. Indulge.
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Was I taught at a young age that a slim figure is the best figure? After all, who can forget watching Tinker Bell gazing into the mirror with a critical grimace at her hip size? But honestly, who wouldn’t kill for those curvy slim hips? Yet the message was quite clear… skinny is best.
I don’t know what it was that made me view my body image in such a negative light. “My hips are too wide. I have a big butt. I’m not thin enough!” Was it the super slim women on television? Or the few cheerleaders who turned up their noses at me as they walked by?
For all of you loyal Shoot-Me-Now readers, this is the ONLY time you will see me in a bathing suit. Positive body image or not!
As an adult I look back and understand just how good I actually looked. Three babies later, my hips are wider and my stomach four cans shy of a six pack. But I have come to appreciate who I am and what I look like. My body image? It is forgiving and accepting.
Will my daughter follow the same path? Just last week she was gazing at herself in the mirror. “Mom? I want to be pretty. Can we get some new clothes? And a haircut and pedicure? Won’t those make me pretty?” Alarms rang in my head at these innocent words.
Throughout my daughter’s life I have done everything I can to nurture a positive self image in her. I’ve explained that beauty comes from within. I am sure to point out “beautiful things” about people who don’t resemble anything you would find on the cover of a magazine. But somewhere, somehow she must have begun to believe beauty is only skin deep.
I think she will be a work in progress, as are all little girls as they peek into the future. For now, she sees I am comfortable in my own skin, despite what society may consider my many flaws. She enjoys participating in my exercise program and watches me eat healthy low-fat food.
We’ve discussed staying hydrated too. She is always asking for a taste of my water, which is sometimes flavored with Crystal Light Green Tea Peach Mango packets. Crystal Light’s “Water Your Body” campaign has inspired me to drink two extra bottles of water a day. And delicious bottles they are!
Although I’ve come to accept who I am, I’ve stepped up my exercise program in the last six months. My daughter doesn’t have to know I’m getting a little help with Crystal Light Metabolism +, does she? There are some things you just have to learn with age.
Do you have a positive body image? If so, what do you attribute to your success in being happy with whom you are?
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