Unit 9 Project

Project Unit 9

I feel that it is important for health and wellness professionals to be developed psychologically, spiritually, and physically because I feel the “Practice what you preach” saying comes into play here. I know that if I go to a health or wellness professional I would expect to see a calm, happy, and physically fit individual, if I did not see that I would wonder what was going to be said to me. Now, if I were the professional I know that someone might come in and say “how can she be telling me about being healthy, she is over weight.” Which leads to the saying “practice what you preach” I cannot tell a client to eat healthy and exercise daily, if I am not doing and proving that myself. Having said that, I need to focus more on my health and lose some weight, which I am working on. It did not get on overnight, so I am a work in progress.

I looked back into Unit 3 when we were to evaluate ourselves in the areas of spirituality, physical wellbeing and psychologically. I rated myself in Unit 3 with a 4 in physical wellbeing, a 6 in Spiritual wellbeing and a 6 in psychological wellbeing. I think that for the most part I have stayed the same. I have been very focused on class and the start of the school year for my children, which also meant me going back to work as well. There has not been any great gains, however small gains. I have started seeing a small amount of weight loss, which is good, so that is a plus, but I have seen a slight falter in the spirituality due to the lack of going to church and finding my inner peace there. Church is my safe place that I feel as though I am untouchable and unrated. I am accepted for who I am, instead of who I am not.

My goals are to continue in my path of healthier living. Finding more time to focus on me and working on the fixing the problems I see fit. I for my physical health the goal I am setting is to become healthier, to lose more weight and in doing so exercising at least three days a week to start. My psychological health I am going to continue working on meditation exercises and training my mind to relax and let go of the daily activities that bog down my thinking so I can focus, regenerate my thoughts and be a better mom, wife and co-worker. Finally, when speaking of my spiritual goals, I will get my butt back into church on a regular basis and remember that God is always here for me will help to guide me in my journey to a healthier me. While achieving these goals, I will remember that I am human, mistakes happen but I will conquer and move forward.

My plan to achieve these goals will be walking and being more active in physical play with my children and my students. When talking about my psychological goals I will continue on the path of meditation and when I am walking I will institute the conscience activity of paying attention to my breathing. My spiritual goals again, are to be more focused on my Christian faith and move with God knowing that he will guide me down the right path of health.

I will make a hard copy of this and put it in a file that I will find six months from now. At that time I will evaluate how I have grown, how I have not grown and what I need to amp up to continue on growing. Keeping a daily log will help me to make myself accountable to the goals that I set for myself and that hopes I will become healthier and in return have a great start to a beautiful career.