Take Good Care

As a life coach I work with women in transition – whatever that may be. Career change, empty-nester, new child, marriage, divorce, aging parents, moving, death of a loved one, broken relationships, health changes… The reasons for transition are as many and varied as we are!

I have personally experienced all of the above, but the last one really kicked my tail. I was diagnosed with a hereditary kidney disease when I was thirty. While not a good thing, it is not life threatening, requiring lots of water and regular check-ups. When I moved to the desert 6 years ago I was at my lowest weight in years, felt great, and could be outside every day of the year. I did not find myself a new nephrologist…

In the spring I started to feel crummy and my waistline expanded crazily. Both kidneys were in trouble, and I had a 10cm (baby head size!) ovarian cyst. I went under general anesthetic three times in four weeks. I don’t have scientific evidence for this but I am pretty sure that alone could kill you.

It is now six months later and I am amazed at where this path has taken me and what I have learned – and continue to learn. From time to time, as it unfolds, I will share with you my journey. I hope you will share yours too, whenever something resonates with you. I have often said that, no matter how wonderful your relationships with the men in your life may be, intimacy with other women provides something you can get nowhere else. My hope and intention are to make this blog a safe and open place for us to share, listen, encourage, and lift each other.

To that end I will leave you with this…TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. I know you are givers, lovers, wildly generous, and self-sacrificing. Those are wonderful traits. Learn to balance them. If you crash and burn what will happen in all those areas where you are last in line? I know. I know. I hear you saying, How do I find the time, the money? What in the world does it even mean to really take care of myself? We will explore that too. For now, just take 10 minutes to get quiet somewhere (maybe in a hot bath, or at the park) in the next couple of days and think about what that would look like – physically, spiritually, emotionally, or psychologically - then come on back and let us know what came up for you.

Laus Deo,
Beth