This week has overall been very productive. I have been really focusing on the gym and trying to improve muscle function throughout each workout. Although my life is very stressful I have been using some techniques discussed in the previous chapter and It really has been helping me balance my life as a whole. I continue to push forward each week closer and closer to my goals. I weighed in at 229lbs today which is the heaviest I have ever been. I am really happy with how this blog has been helping me focus on my goals and track my progress through this facebook group.
This chapter discusses very important factors of living a healthy and happy life. Although I thought that I knew everything about relationships considering I have been happily in one for the past two years I guess I really don’t . There are things that we need to work on together to help grow and progress our relationship further than it already is. Something that I think that I need to work on not just with my intimate relationship but all of my relationships(family, friends) is communication. It sounds so simple because since we were kids we have been trying to communicate, we would “flail our arms, cry, scream, smile, frown, and make sounds and gestures to attract attention or to communicate what we want or need”(Donatelle, 2019, P.83). Communicating is key to any healthy relationship and we sometimes just simply forget to do so.
While reading this chapter I really got interested in the family aspect of relationship. Simply due to every relationship starting from your family. We tend to forget or take for granted our family members and not show them the love they deserve. But our relationships outside our family start from learning from how we were taught “to care for, love, and socialize with one another”(Donatelle, 2019, P.73).
Overall this Chapter really showed me how to grow in any relationship. Also how to develop new and healthy relationships in life. All of these factors play a huge factor in mental health without having healthy relationships we would have no one to acknowledge us and learn from.
