Hello Professor and Class: This has been a exciting week in class.  I am so excited about all the new opportunities we learned about.  The Integral Assessment was fun and a great learning experience.  I found that my weakness lies in family relationships and the commitment to eat healthy.  I am very weak when it comes to eating healthy.  I stress eat and I know exactly what I am supposed to eat and what makes me ill.  It is even worse because I get headaches from caffeine and red food dyes but I still eat it and take my medication.  This occurs when I am most stressed.  I do have times when I am relaxed and focused and I eat very healthy.  It just dose not seem to be routine like it should. So Biological Flourishing is my first weakness.

My second weakness is family relationships.  Interpersonal Flourishing is a difficult thing for me to obtain.  There are many challenges within my home.  I have a son with Aspergers and a son with a anger disorder.  Then my husband is dealing with depression and he is morbidly obese.  He has high blood pressure and edema in both legs.  It scares me and I get very angry with him and I have taken action to ignore it.  This is not good for me because I dwell on it in my mind and then all of a sudden I cry or scream at him for no reason.  I have also run out of resources for dealing with my children as they are 20 and 17.  It seems everyone in my family needs to step up and take responsibility for themselves so I have decided to give them the responsibility.  That is what is making me so stressed.

I have chosen to work on both of these areas by helping myself.  I am meditating as often as I can and I work out more.  I eat less when I am at home and do not bring too much bad food into the house.  I am trying really hard to get better because I know what the end results could be if I do not.

Cherie