PHYSICAL HEALTH FOR WIDOWS
This month we are focusing on self care, and we started off with a challenge to add just one new habit to your routine for the month of September. If you’re like me, you’ve probably missed a day or two. I am focusing on drinking more water and I cannot understand why this is such a challenge, but it is!
If you have taken on the challenge, I am so proud of you! Often we focus more on the outer or body-focused self care, such as getting our nails done, making time for a massage, or getting some exercise, and that is wonderful — but I want to invite you to also focus on some heart, gut, and mind self care for our inner self.
This is often a challenge for grievers. For inner self care, quiet time, time alone, and being still with our thoughts and feelings is the goal in order to re-center, to become more grounded, and to gain insights from processing. (Ouch…and I thought drinking water more regularly was difficult!) Widows find themselves alone and in a quiet home …
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