We need to make some changes
March 11, 2010 – 6:08 pmWhile I’ve stopped making resolutions to mark the New Year, I instead opted to focus on a personal “theme” of mind, body, and soul. Yes, it sounds terribly cliché, but I found it easy to remember as I attempt to execute the goals within this theme.
The mental purging that has become my blog over the past few months is somewhat intentional as I try to remove some of the layers that separate me from others. It’s a difficult process, but something that I know I have to do if I want to fully trust others again without always having some skepticism lodged in my head. In a sense, I’m willingly opening myself up to rejection, humiliation, adoration, love, and anything else along that spectrum.
Physically, this theme has been challenging because it means restarting old habits or adopting new ones. Last week, I attended the first in a series of classes called “Veg 101,” which focuses on preparing vegetarian and vegan meals in addition to providing information on the benefits of going veg.
I am a lapsed vegetarian (a story for another time, but long story short, being a vegetarian in your teens in a house full of omnivores isn’t easy), but I do want to get back into the habit of incorporating more vegetarian meals into my routine and learning new ways to cook the things I already do eat. The first class focused on making egg-free baked goods. The recipes also incorporated non-wheat flours. Who knew garbanzo flour could be so tasty? Well, now I do.
A bonus effect of being enrolled in the class is the opportunity to get out and interact with people I wouldn’t see otherwise. The class was fairly diverse with regards to age and the number of years people had been vegetarian, or not.
In addition to changing up my diet, I also made a vow to get back into the habit of visiting doctors more regularly as a preventive measure rather than waiting for something to be wrong. This week, that involved going to the dentist for the first time in a few years. (I know, I know…bad, bad, bad!) From grade school to part of my high school years, I was a near-weekly fixture in an orthodontist’s office. (Um, my teeth had a lot of issues.) After that ordeal, I sadly started to slack off on visiting the dentist with the exception of getting some dental work here or there.
Fortunately, I found a great dentist and despite walking out of the office building with a numb face, I was happy I went. I have to return again next week to finish up some things, but the dentist assured me that while it may seem like a big ordeal to me, they’re used to seeing much, much, much worse. I guess that will make me feel better in time, but for now, I’m thankful for the high-powered Motrin provided to deal with the gum pain once the numbing effect went away.
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