Getting Healthy in your life

 The book "Are You Really Okay" helped me see how making sure you are healthy in all areas of your life can affect the relationships in your life.     Debra Fileta clearly presented the case of how we have to be make sure we are okay emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually in our life.  Being healthy in these areas give us the strength to love God with our our heart, mind, soul, and strength; Mark 12:30-31.  It's important we heal from various traumas that we have faced in our life.  This book showed me how it's important we examine if we have healed from our past family emotional struggles and how they affect us later in life.   

It also revealed to me how important rest can be to our daily life and our emotional strength.  Rest helps us retain information mentally and process things emotionally.   Mental rest and physical rest are important will giving us the strength throughout the week.    As Christians,  it is important we to love God with our mind and strength not just our soul and heart.   We cannot love God with only a small part of us but we have to make sure the sum is the whole of the part of us.  

This book also examines our spiritual life to see if we are loving God with our whole hearts.   We have to examine our past to make sure nothing is hindering our current relationship with God.   In order to grow in Christ, we have to heal from the past.    Paul says in Philippians 3:12-14,  that he presses on to what Christ has done in his life and in verse 13 he pushes from his past and strains forward to the future.   In verse 15,  this pressing onward leads to a eternal focus on Jesus Christ.    

Lastly,  Fileta helps the reader understand how we process things emotionally.   When we understand,  how we process things emotionally it will clearly see how to process certain things in clearer ways.   We have to acknowledge our emotions, express them well, see how they affect others,  and ask others how I acted in a certain way.   It's important we write out how we specifically acted in certain ways to grow from these ways.    This will give us the strength to heal emotionally in our life.