I'm Back......

Yes after a long break I'm back.  I had a nervous breakdown last May and the anniversary of that is arriving in a couple weeks.  Instead of approaching the milestone with difficulty I'm approaching it with a healed heart and mind.  The road to recovery after a 20-day hospital stint (10 days in-patient, 10 days out-patient), taking medication for the first time in my life to control my moods and Bipolar I diagnosis, hitting a deep seeded emotional low and escaping from it, has been a long but very educational one.  I've been to a therapist every 2 weeks (was every week for about 6 weeks) since and it has been the best thing I did for MYSELF.  I've also attended NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health) group support meetings with others suffering from mental illness.  And I've had the most wonderful support system in my husband and son.  Without them I would have had a much tougher road to how.

ANYWAY - I just re-read a blog I posted from December 2011 and I've decided this is where I have circled back around to.  I read it with disbelief because it was 1 1/2 years prior to my breakdown.  Oh how much I was harboring.  I was like a pressure cooker ready to explode on the inside and didn't even know it.

SO from today forward I'm adopting my own observation from December 2011 but this time without the emotional baggage I've managed to release.  Oh yea, AND I restarted my fitness/healty nutrition living this week and I already feel better.

Life, Like Wine, Gets Better with Age

Been quite some time since my last post - just lost that feeling of needing/wanting to blog. Well it's back - at least for today.

Over the past several years many women of a certain age have commented on how wonderful life is at age 50 and beyond. I've become one of those women of a certain age. I'm not certain how we get to this stage but it is wonderful to reach that stage. I'm pretty sure it comes with the wisdom of knowing that it really doesn't matter what others think of you and your approach to life - it matters how you treat others, view the glass as half full or half empty, and handle with grace and strength the inevitable daily wrenches thrown into one's life, whether it be related to home, family, work, relationships, you name it.

Each day IS a NEW day and you can choose to hold onto those difficulties experienced in the days and weeks prior, or you can choose to start fresh and attack the world with a smile and a positive attitude. Mind you this does NOT mean being a pollyanna and it does NOT mean that you don't stumble at some point during the NEW day. It just means that tomorrow, or even in the next hour or several hours, if you are fortunate enough for tomorrow to come, you get to start over and have that new day be the best day ever.

Happy New DAY to all!