Istarted last month with a major fall that ended up with a trip to the Emergency Room. So, I have become much more careful in the way that I get out of bed at night and my husband put up a night light near the bathroom. My head has been quite painful – where I hit it, but I finally picked the medical glue out of my head (along with quite a bit of my hair), and am slowly recovering.
Pacific Tales kept me busy trying to find old friends to share their stories on my podcast on Spotify. It has been interesting. Some people are very eager to be part of it, yet others are very against it. My experience so far is that those that have participated have enjoyed it quite a bit. I enjoy learning more about our friends and they usually give praise to God for all the good they have had in their lives. So, I believe it can inspire others to do good. Here’s my latest podcast: (you will need to open it on Spotify)
We just finished General Conference. It was like a marathon. There were five sessions in two days. It was very inspirational and the Holy Ghost spoke to my heart, especially when I knew I needed to improve. I loved President Oaks talk and have had to repent and change my attitude about going to church. Also, our Prophet, President Russell M. Nelson announced 13 new temples and encouraged us to make use of them as often as possible. COVID is still a problem, so we have to make appointments online, but we have an initiatory scheduled for next week. ‘Isi goes to the temple at least twice a week for sealings and still does Patriarchal blessings so he is very busy giving service, but I have been kind of laid back and need to get going again. I used to be a temple worker and really enjoyed it until COVID made everything more difficult.
I am still having therapy and learning so many skills in managing stress and depression. Here are a few of the skills I have learned: Find a safe place (somewhere you can go to as a refuge when you are feeling stressed that you feel safe), a container (a place you can put your worries into (written on a paper so you can put them aside until you are in a better place and able to address them better), tapping (where you tap certain pressure points on your head, face, chest, etc. that will give you some relief and take your mind off your problems), and the last one that I am still working on is to prioritize a list of words in categories such as: important, very important, somewhat important, and not important. Then you take only the words in the very important list and prioritize them – which should tell you something about yourself. It is quite a difficult activity and one that takes much effort to recognize what means the most to you. Some of the words that means the most to me are: hope, belonging, inner peace, creativity, and self acceptance.
My high school buddies got together for a luncheon and we had a fun time. They went up the canyon to stay at a cabin at Sundance but I wasn’t feeling so sure on my feet yet, so they went without me.
Yesterday, I went with Liana, Ileina, and Princess to get our nails done. I asked for a tropical theme:
We hope to be going to Hawaii for our anniversary/birthdays this month so we had the booster shot. I was very sick from it!! We have the reservation, we have the tickets, we have the hotel, just need to pass the COVID requirements………wish us luck!!
