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October: A time to RESET & RECALIBRATE
(a blog I wrote for our wellness center on the monthly theme) I didn’t realize when I made this the focus for the month, how
October 22, 2023
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(a blog I wrote for our wellness center on the monthly theme)
I didn’t realize when I made this the focus for the month, how badly I was actually going to walk through the meaning of it. I could feel it brewing inside of my heart and thoughts… I was longing for some time to reset. Looking back, I realized August and September had both been extra full and emotionally taxing months. The amount of weekends we were away was at least half of them; and by away I mean, out of state, traveling involved, etc.. On top of that, school started, sports are going, new routines are being and needing to be developed, and life threw us a curveball all in the mix of all that. By the last week of September, I was just trying to come up for air.
It was time to recalibrate my life. Isn’t the first official month of fall just the most appropriate time to do so? As the season sheds itself of the old and prepares for its next season; I tend to notice I walk alongside that process.
Typically my husband and I meet about once a week on Sunday evenings. It can be brief, just reviewing the week, schedules, appointments, any upcoming games, evening dinner plans, you know, life! And sometimes we get onto more family, life, marital topics up for discussion that need talked through. As you can probably tell from the tone of this blog, we hadn’t met in weeks.
First Sunday in October, “honey, let’s get our planners out, time to update the calendar!”
It’s crazy how fast you can be pulled out of the simplest habits or routines that serve your family so well.
What went from let’s reset our calendar, look ahead over the final quarter of the year, etc. turned into a full mental, emotional, spiritual, triggered by a physical “breakdown” (if you will), to a breakthrough in every area, in a matter of a few days of the first week. Woah… was it a rollercoaster. I felt like God allowed me to walk into the low dark valley, only to remind me where He is in all of it. I worked through so many emotions trapped away from my surgery, that I didn’t even know was there – released! I worked through mindsets that I kept cycling through, repented of them, and broke them off! I hit another extreme of physical pain I didn’t think I could hit again after the surgery, only to remind me of the most important things my boundaries are to set around for. And remind me of the promises I made myself while laying in that hospital bed only 9 months ago, that I hadn’t kept at all. So! Without going into crazy more detail, I think you can pick up what I’m putting down regarding the need, and desire to refresh some areas of my life. As the first week comes to an end, I’m filling my heart with gratitude that I made it through, that I’m out of the low part of the valley, that my best friend, Holy Spirit never left me, instead came alongside of me, and poured grace, love and forgiveness into me. I am blessed, and I am refreshed. I feel reset and recalibrated in a very wholistic way! I am ready and filled up to take on this quarter and prepare for 2024.
It’s for reasons like this that we open up this discussion and have these kinds of themes for our months. Yes, we are a wellness center, so many months are focused on nutrition, inflammation, etc. But to negate that our mental, emotional health, our life routines and family habits aren’t a part of a healthy Lifestyle, would be naive.
I encourage you to check in with yourself. Note if anything is feeling overwhelming that can be released. Anything that’s been a time distraction and not serving you getting where you want to be in the next season of your life (that can be as early as the beginning of 2024). Can you set it aside for a few months? In one week of setting my distraction aside, I’ve been measurably more productive. I know this choice will expound on itself, and I will see the fruit of it soon:)
Have a blessed, productive, shedding of the old, preparing for the new – month of October!
In health,
Dr. Sonja
(a blog I wrote for our wellness center on the monthly theme) I didn’t realize when I made this the focus for the month, how