Make a Date with Your Body February 20

This excerpt is from a book entitled "Coming Home to Your Body" by Carmen Renee Berry. 365 Ways to Nourish Yourself Inside and Out.

"Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other" - Ivy Baker Priest, 'Green Grows Ivy', 1958

Most women today juggle a variety of demands and obligations, often in service to the needs of others. Even though I am single, I rarely have a free minute to spare between my personal life and professional duties. Either I'm meeting writing deadlines, seeing clients, and presenting workshops or I'm spending time with friends and family. It's very easy to overlook on of the most important relationships I have - the one with my body.

Whether you are married or single, with or without children, we all have relationships that we value and therefore require attention. Make sure that, along with scheduling time to take your daughter to ballet class, take soup by a sick friend's house, meet your partner for dinner and attend the next committee meeting, you schedule time to relate to your body. Don't wait until your body has to get your attention by landing you in bed with illness or some other physical ailment.

Take out your datebook and make a date with your body. Plan something fun and nurturing like a workout at the gym, soaking in the hot bubble bath , or a soothing massage. Even though others are competing for your time and attention, put your body on the top of your priority list. That's one relationship you can't live without.