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Besides taking good care of your body, it is important to take care of your emotional and mental health. If you are usually well-balanced emotionally, that is really great!

You obviously want to feed your body and your brain good nutritious food and gett plenty of sleep. You are saying no to chaos that tries to steal your sense of peace and the people who are trying to sneak it into your life.

However, if your sleep is disturbed, your food isn’t digesting well, leaving you with stomach aches and bowel problems, and you are having other symptoms like headaches, it is time to take inventory of what you are allowing to “live rent-free in your head”.

What goes into your head and abides in your emotions have a huge impact on how your body functions. Have you ever heard the term “garbage in-garbage out”? If you are eating junk-food, your body and your emotions will react.

Perhaps you are watching violent movies before going to bed. Don’t be surprised if you have bad dreams or can’t sleep through the night. Discussing heavy subjects before you go to bed (like financial debt), can also cause insomnia.

Although some doctors prescribe a glass of wine to relax you, that could get to be a habit and cause other issues. A few sleepless nights and your work-day responsibilities will begin to suffer. Kick relationship garbage to the curb!

Before you run to a psychiatrist to lock you up somewhere and fill you full of medications, take a long hard look at the choices you are making in your life that could be causing you some discomfort. Are you so wrapped up in other people’s problems that you don’t have the time and energy to deal with your own?

My advice is to care from a distance, but don’t adopt them. Rescuing them only makes them feel less capable of handling their responsibilities; and they will eventually resent you for it anyway. Change will only happen when their behavior becomes more painful than they can tolerate.

Feel wounded, broken, and confused? Give yourself permission to take a ‘time-out’. Take a written relationships inventory. Look at it like a business. What stays brings profit. What is eliminated is what causes your business to go bankrupt. Simple as that! When you see it all on paper, it will become clear.

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