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Living well is Being well!
Living well is Being well!
Choose to live a healthy and fulfilling life. Wellness is more than being free from illness: it is a process of change and growth towards a mentally and physically healthy lifestyle.
In order to live a higher quality life, maintaining optimal wellness is key. Everything we feel and do relates to our well-being and directly affects our actions and emotions. In order to subdue stress, reduce illness, and ensure positive moments in your life, you must achieve optimal wellness.
To achieve optimal wellness, one must apply it towards every possible endeavor. You can apply a wellness approach towards your environment, community, career, belief systems, physical activities, self care, healthy eating, self esteem, and creative activities. Applying wellness in your everyday life will allow you to achieve your full potential and live with passion and purpose.
My name is Daisy Mitchell, I am a 61 year old with Hemoglbin SC Disease.
Hemoglobin SC disease, is a type of sickle cell disease, which means it affects the shape of the red blood cells. Red blood cells contain a protein called hemoglobin, which is responsible for carrying blood throughout the body. People with hemoglobin SC disease have red blood cells that are differently shaped and therefore do not carry oxygen as effectively. Symptoms of hemoglobin SC disease include anemia and episodes of fatigue and extreme pain (vaso-occlusive crisis). The severity of the symptoms can vary from person to person.
Hemoglobin SC disease is caused by mutations in the gene that tells our bodies how to make hemoglobin. These mutations cause changes in the shape of the red blood cells. People affected by hemoglobin SC disease need to be especially careful to avoid infection and should be checked regularly by doctors to make sure all of the organs in the body are functioning properly. In times when the anemia becomes severe, a person affected by hemoglobin SC disease may require a blood transfusion. A bone marrow transplant may also be recommended depending on the severity of the symptoms.
When I was 11 years old I had a difficult crisis. I was in the hospital for two weeks. It was in the early 70’s and even though I was crying out in pain the doctor said there was nothing wrong with me. It wasn’t until I was 35 years old that I learned that I had Sickle Cell Disease and not Sickle Cell Trait as my family thought.
Those years brought many challenges many more crisis and hospital visits. I went in the Air Force at 19 and was discharged because my hemoglobin count was too low for military standards. I married young and became a hair stylist for many years. After the divorce I went back to college and received an Associate’s Degree. The next several years I had back surgery and a complete hysterectomy.
The surgeries left me with daily chronic pain and I began to have more pain crisis, blood transfusions and 3 red blood cell exchanges. My dream to teach was put on hold so to support myself I started writing books under the pen name of Jessie Xavier. Since that time I remarried a wonderful man that is a gift from God. I have had three cervical surgeries, two shoulder replacements and a hip replacement.
I went back to school and received my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology Christian Counseling. I’m now a Wellness Coach helping those with chronic illness to manage their disease with making heathy eating choices, alternative medicine and mental, spiritual and emotional wellness.
I would tell those with Sickle Cell Disease or any chronic illness to listen to your body. Do not allow bitterness and anger to control your life. Stand strong in your faith. Keep positive people in your life that will encourage you in your passions. Your life has a purpose!
I take an holistic approach to wellness. I implement many different modialities into my wellness journey. We are Spirit, Soul and Body! My prayer is that this website will be fluent as I add to it based on what has helped me age with grace.
I want to start this website with a four week webinar on my wellness journey. The first week I will share what has helped me take care of my body. The second week will focus on emotional health and wellbeing. The third week will include spiritual wholeness. The fourth week I will do a Q and A to answer any questions that may arrive from any of these talks. If you have found your way to this site it is not an accident. You are meant to be here at this moment. My prayer is that you will find something that will lift your spirits and brings you comfort and peace.
1. I have to make sleep a priority.
If you’re tired, even if you feel that you need to get more done, give yourself permission to sleep. I ignored this simple notion for years because I always felt that I had to accomplish something in a certain amount of time. Now that I have embraced my limitations, my body thanks me for it. Admittedly, my condition keeps rest and sleep from being as refreshing as they might be for other people, but it still makes a difference. I have a magnet on my refrigerator that says, “Today has been canceled go back to bed.”
2. I eat well adding herbs and supplements when needed
We’re encouraged to be increasingly mindful of what we eat nowadays, and for good reason considering the state of the food we consume. I’d like to encourage you, however, to turn your attention inward for a moment and think about eating as more than a bland necessity or ethical conundrum. Food is fuel, and we need it to function optimally
Eating well means feeding your body what it needs, in the most natural way you can manage and afford. Changing how you eat doesn’t need to be an all-or-nothing thing. I drink plenty of water and I love teas for desired taste as well as a complete array of wellness teas.
Relish the food you eat too, and take your time. Paying attention to flavors, textures, and smells, even the mechanical act of eating can soothe our bodies and reawaken us to the sensations of being alive. I like following the using the Ayurveda method that incorporates all six flavors – sweet, salty, sour, bitter, astringent and pungent – into my meal preparations.
3. I Listen to my body
When something hurts, something somewhere has gone wrong, and your body is trying to tell you that. We often pay no attention to pain unless it becomes unbearable: that tooth ache isn’t so bad, it can wait for a while; the sharp tugging in my shoulder is a result of repetitive strain but it usually goes by the time I’m home, so no need to worry.
These things, no matter how small, shouldn’t be brushed aside because they represent damage to our bodies. Ignore them and they could come back to haunt you later.
Because I’m still clinging on to the self that existed before I was feeling so rubbish, I tend to think I’m untouchable. I end up taking on way too much and then running around like a maniac. I can probably manage about two days of this sort of activity before I collapse and need to rest my body.
If we squeeze every second out of our day at record speed, our flesh, bones, muscles, organs—the whole lot—will eventually suffer.
Since accepting my physical condition, I’ve become a slow life advocate. I have to live slowly for the sake of my body, and you know what? I quite like it!
I have learned that if I listen to my body I can quickly tend to my current needs. Sometimes I can feel that my low energy level may be due to low hemoglobin count or an infection somewhere in my body. Because I have chronic pain I take physical therapy twice a week and make sure that move my body by taking walks, bike rides or dancing.
4. I have close relationships with my doctors
The dynamic between physicians and patients refers to the communication patterns and the extent to which decision making is shared between both parties. Effective physician-patient communication is an integral part of clinical practice and serves as the keystone of physician-patient relationships. Studies have shown the approach taken by physicians to communicate information is equally important as the actual information that is being communicated. This type of communication incorporates both verbal and nonverbal interactions between physicians and patients. iEffective communication has been shown to influence a wide array of outcomes including: emotional health, symptoms resolution, function, pain control, and physiologic measures such as blood pressure levels. iWhen miscommunication occurs, it can have severe negative implications in clinical care such as impeding patient understanding, expectations of treatment, treatment planning, decreasing patient satisfaction of medical care, and reducing levels of patient hopefulness.”
I make sure that I know what my lab results are on a regular basis. I also have specialist that care for specific problems my body may encounter.
5. I make sure to be touched often
The cortisol-lowering effect that a hug, massage or other form of touch can have on someone who is sick can also offer healing effects. “Cortisol, when up, increases blood pressure, heart rate, and inflammation — it can make healing harder, physically,” Lee says. “But when you decrease cortisol, heart rate can go down, blood pressure can go down, and the immune system is more able to do its function.”
Oxytocin can also aid healing in the sense that it can help you feel like you’re not alone, like you’re socially connected, which helps to improve psychological healing, explains Lee. “When you’re psychologically healthy and anchored, that’s really important in dealing with a major illness.”
One review underscores how the benefits of touch likely come from a mix of both a mental reaction (that feeling of inclusion and support) and a physical one (the increase in oxytocin and pain-relieving substances, both of which downregulate the stress response). Another study found that healing touch therapy and massage helped relieve pain in cancer patients.
“At this time of physical distancing, when touch is limited, we’re being forced to be more intentional about our word choice,” I love to video chat with my family and friends seeing their smiles ands along with hearing their voices are extremely warming to my soul. .
My husband gives the best massages and I use different devices like a self-massager and a ten’s unit when in an area of my body that needs deep penetration.
What is our soul? Our soul, though unseen, is just as real as our body. By our soul, we experience things in the psychological realm. In fact, the Greek word for soul in the Bible is psuche, which is also the root word of psychology. Our soul is composed of our mind, which enables us to do things like think, reason, consider, remember, and wonder; our emotions, which enable us to have feelings like happiness, sorrow, anger, relief, and compassion; and our will, which enables us to choose and make decisions. Our mind, emotion, and will make up our soul, which is our personality, who we are within.
5 Ways I Care For My Soul
1. Eliminating Stress Types of Stress
While the body's reactions can vary, there are four types of stress:
2. Making myself a priority: Do you ever get that feeling that you’re being pulled into a million directions until you feel like you’ve lost your center, your essence, and your being? Everybody wants you to do something for them, and, of course, you want to help, and you want to be there for them, be their rock, a shoulder to cry on. You know you need to take care of yourself, but that takes a back seat.
The feeling of satisfaction you receive when you help someone is undeniable; when you are there for them, you feel needed. There’s a price to pay, of course.
This emotion or feeling of acknowledgment comes with that price. It’s like a double-edged sword. You keep giving and giving until you feel drained, emptied, and you can’t recognize yourself anymore.
You ask yourself, “How does doing so much good leave you feeling so empty?”
You beg your soul to feed on all the good it’s doing, but it continues to feel starved You can’t escape the cycle because you’re stuck on repeat, and no one seems to want to click on the next button anytime soon.
I always wanted to present myself as always being available. People will always test your limits and sometimes take advantage of your seemingly good nature. For this reason, boundaries are necessary and, yes, healthy.
When I regularly carve out time to do what I want for yourself, it sends a positive message to your brain and releases endorphins that improve feelings of self-worth and confidence. Besides, it allows me to discover my values and realize what I’m passionate about. I love nature and water. I try to make sure to take walks or sit outside as much as possible.
3. Being Creative. Pursuing my passion gives me energy. I love to write and publish books. I didn’t know that I even had the ability to write until I was no longer able to teach in a classroom. My desire and passion to teach didn’t change I just had to find another way to do it. Had I not taken time to discover who I was and what I wanted. I don’t think my life would be this fulfilled.
I make my own soap, deodorant, toothpaste, message oils and etc. I love using essential oils because of the healing benefits and properties they carry to make me well. I had to study and learn about oils. Learning new things is also good for the soul. I recently started making jewelry using crystal healing stones and copper.
4. Meditation, Music and Laughter
Meditation practice to quiet the mind. New meditators may find it helpful to remember the following guidelines.
5. Having a great support system. My support system consists of friends and family members that I stay in constant contact with. They are not just there during the good times but equally so when times get tough. These are the people who encourage me as I am there for them. As human beings, we benefit from our social relationships and they challenge our adaptability and health. We strive to connect with others, and the number of contacts we make with others (including friends, acquaintances, and family members) best predicts both our physical and our emotional health. Our social support acts as a buffer or protective layer against the wide variations of transitions we experience during our lives.
Studies show that higher levels of social support correlate with lower levels of cholesterol and improve immune function. Even having a pet is a form of connection that is important to a person's health.
Studies have also demonstrated that poor relationships and social support can adversely affect the immune system. People with supportive social networks have better overall health, lower rates of cancer and heart disease, less coronary blockage (as measured by angiograms), shorter hospital stays when they do get sick, and better resistance to infection than those whose social bonds are not as supportive. People who are isolated have higher-than-average rates of many types of illnesses, including arthritis, hypertension, heart disease, viral infections, cancer, and tuberculosis.
The Names of God
The name of the independent, self-complete being—“I AM WHO I AM”—only belongs to Jehovah God. Our proper response to Him is to fall down in fear and awe of the One who possesses all authority. Exodus 3:13-15
This name means “the God who sanctifies.” A God separate from all that is evil requires that the people who follow Him be cleansed from all evil Leviticus 20:7-8
God is beyond measurement—we cannot define Him by size or amount. He has no beginning, no end, and no limits. Romans 11:33
God is all-powerful. He spoke all things into being, and all things—every cell, every breath, every thought—are sustained by Him. Nothing is too difficult for Him. Jeremiah 32:17-18; Jeremiah 32:26-27
God is the embodiment of perfect goodness, and is kind, benevolent, and full of good will toward all creation. Psalm 119:65-72
God’s love is so great that He gave His only Son to bring us into fellowship with Him. His love encompasses the world, and embraces each of us personally and intimately. 1 John 4:7-10
“The God who provides.” Just as He provided yesterday, He will provide today and tomorrow. He grants deliverance from sin, the oil of joy for the ashes of sorrow, and eternal citizenship in His Kingdom for all those adopted into His household. Genesis 22:9-14
“The God of peace.” We are meant to know the fullness of God’s perfect peace, His “shalom.” God’s peace surpasses understanding and sustains us through difficult times. It’s the product of fully being what we were created to be. Judges 6:16-24
All that God is, He has always been. All that He has been and is, He will ever be. He is ever perfect and unchanging. Psalm 102:25-28
God is not simply the highest in an order of beings (this would be to grant Him eminence). He is transcendent—existing beyond and above the created universe. Psalm 113:4-5
God is righteous and holy, fair and equitable in all things. We can trust Him to always do what is right. Psalm 75:1-7
God’s holiness is not a better version of the best we know. God is utterly and supremely untainted. His holiness stands apart—unique and incomprehensible. Revelation 4:8-11
“Jehovah heals.” God alone provides the remedy for mankind’s brokenness through His son, Jesus Christ. The Gospel is the physical, moral, and spiritual remedy for all people. Exodus 15:22-26
All things are God’s to give, and all that is given is given by Him. He can receive nothing that He has not already given us. Acts 17:24-28
God is all-knowing. God’s knowledge encompasses every possible thing that exists, has ever existed, or will ever exist. Nothing is a mystery to Him. Psalm 139:1-6
God is everywhere, in and around everything, close to everyone. “‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord.” Psalm 139:7-12
God’s merciful compassion is infinite and inexhaustible. Through Christ, He took the judgment that was rightfully ours and placed it on His own shoulders. He waits and works now for all people to turn to Him and to live under His justification. Deuteronomy 4:29-31
God presides over every event, great or small, and He is in control of our lives. To be sovereign, He must be all-knowing and all-powerful, and by His sovereignty He rules His entire creation. 1 Chronicles 29:11-13
“God our banner.” Under His banner we go from triumph to triumph and say, “Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57). Exodus 17:8-15
All God’s acts are accomplished through His infinite wisdom. He always acts for our good, which is to conform us to Christ. Our good and His glory are inextricably bound together. Proverbs 3:19-20
Out of His faithfulness God honors His covenants and fulfills His promises. Our hope for the future rests upon God’s faithfulness. Psalm 89:1-8
Unlike human anger, God’s wrath is never capricious, self-indulgent, or irritable. It is the right and necessary reaction to objective moral evil. Nahum 1:2-8
Grace is God’s good pleasure that moves Him to grant merit where it is undeserved and to forgive debt that cannot be repaid. Ephesians 1:5-8
Jesus called the Holy Spirit the “Comforter,” and the apostle Paul writes that the Lord is “the God of all comfort.” 2 Corinthians 1:3,4
“God Almighty,” the God who is all-sufficient and all-bountiful, the source of all blessings. Genesis 49:22-26
Jesus taught us to pray, “Our Father” (Matthew 6:9), and the Spirit of God taught us to cry, “Abba, Father,” an intimate Aramaic term similar to “Daddy.” The Creator of the universe cares for each one of us. Romans 8:15-17
God the Son, Jesus, is the head of the Church. As the head, the part of the body that sees, hears, thinks, and decides, He gives the orders that the rest of the body lives by. Ephesians 1:22-23
Knowing our temptations, God the Son intercedes for us. He opens the doors for us to boldly ask God the Father for mercy. Thus, God is both the initiation and conclusion of true prayer. Hebrews 4:14-16
“Master” or “Lord.” All God’s people ought to acknowledge themselves as His servants, with His right to reign as Lord of our lives. 2 Samuel 7:18-20
“Strength” or “Power”: He is transcendent, mighty and strong. This name displays His supreme power, sovereignty, and faithfulness in His covenant relationship with us. Genesis 17:7-8
Sources: The Knowledge of the Holy, by A.W. Tozer; Names of God, by Nathan Stone; and God of Glory, by Kenneth Landon.
Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
The Bible says, “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, [Jesus Christ], that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Jesus said, “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly”—a complete life full of purpose (John 10:10).
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