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Please join is Tuesday for
Taking Charge of Your Hormones with Roz Adams, the Hormone Lady
In this CoachCast, Roz will talk about the real impacts that hormones play in every woman’s life and how to leverage therapy, products, behavior and attitude in your effort to cope. If you are experiencing weight gain, mood swings, depression, anxiety, food cravings, bloating, memory loss and fatigue… NO you’re not alone, and YES there are answers!

Last week I mentioned my Disaster Training with CERT and how that relates to Self Care - they emphasize safety to self.  If you feel threatened, are in danger or if you’re not sure if it’s a safe environment, walk away.

Safety to self is priority #1 in order to survive.

Survival also reinforces the importance of getting our needs met. Not only the basic needs of food, water, shelter, etc., but also making yourself a priority by balancing work and play, connecting with others and tapping into your spiritual side. It means fulfilling the personal needs that you have in order to survive. Because if you don’t get your basic personal needs met, they can RULE your life, making survival a harder task.

Think about when you’re hungry. At first it is a small grumbling that you an ignore, but then it gets louder, more intense and eventually, you might get the “shakes” from low blood-sugar levels. At this point, it’s quite hard to over look and your drive and motivation turn to finding food to meet that need. And as you’re scavenging for something to eat, your decision making skills may not be as sharp - you’re focused on food!

Now imagine it’s something more of a personal need, like connecting with others.  Again, it may start with a small “grumbling” but then if not met with healthy connections, you might turn to any kind of connection, just to satisfy that need - quality connection or not.

To get started, the first thing to do is to identify your needs. Here are some guidelines to follow when considering a need:
1. It is absolutely satisfiable (if it is not, it could be an addiction or an obsession)
2. It is something that gives you healthy energy - that fuels you positively.
3. It is NOT an option in your life - you require it.

Preparing for a disaster means maintaining your personal well-being.
And to survive, safety to self is #1.

Discovering your personal needs and starting to get those met will start you in the right direction.

Make Happiness Yours,
Susan

Just a quick note today to say that YOU matter. . . .

It’s Election Day here in the United States and your Vote counts.

Regardless of who you support or what you believe, don’t let anything get in the way of your right to vote and make a difference for this country.

I’ll see you out at the polls!
Susan

Alexandra realized that her longtime friend Nicole was going through a rough patch that she perpetuated through a lack of looking within and doing anything to move forward. She also realized that this rough patch has lasted for their entire friendship. Nicole was usually a pseudo-happy self with all their other friends and complained about everything to Alexandra. (more…)

What’s more painful than chronic physical pain? The pain that lives inside, that’s what. Can you imagine being 100 pounds overweight and living with all of the stares, comments and agony that goes along with that? The inability to buy a beautiful dress, or the fear that now goes with flying on an airplane? Now can you imagine losing that weight, and still coming up short? Still feeling, deep inside, that you were not good enough. Never believing, for more than a few moments at a time, that you were beautiful and valuable. (more…)

Our bodies are magnificent instruments. Almost without any effort they operate day after day, year after year. They digest, they move, they smell, they feel and they breath. The air we breath. There is nothing in life as simple and as profound as the air we breath. The average person could probably live four to six weeks without food and an average of ten days without water. But air. Air is a completely different story. (more…)

Alexandra wrote down that although she looked forward to seeing Nicole, her longtime friend, she was always significantly disappointed when she did. (more…)

What’s the best way to hit disaster? Head on!
By anticipating the danger and being prepared. If you’ve ever been in an accident, an earthquake or simply experienced a black out - it can be scary and if you’re “caught with your pants down,” not only can it be embarrassing but life threatening.

In Hawaii, we have 2 very REAL disasters that have a history of striking our islands, tsunamis and hurricanes. In addition, we’re also known to have our share of earthquakes and lava flows (and I’m NOT talking about the drink!) Disaster is imminent. (more…)

Last week I shared a story of two women, Alexandra and Nicole and how their friendship had turned unhealthy for Alexandra as Nicole vented all of her issues onto Alexandra and yet, did not want or welcome any of Alexandra’s support. In fact, she turned on her, turning every issue back onto Alexandra. (more…)

Anger is a good thing.
Or rather, it is an emotion that can have positive benefits that too often (and perhaps too readily) are looked upon negatively. Anger can be unnerving and uncomfortable, but totally getting rid of anger would mean that you won’t have that certain mechanism to help self-preservation, establishing healthy boundaries, determining wants and needs, and just not getting hurt overall.

Anger can protect us from that which may be harmful. (more…)