Personal Narrative: Nurturing Relationships

This week I have completed my personal activities. I had 3 activities to complete one being Random Act of Kindness, The second being Nurturing Relationships, and the last Taking care of your body. I was glad to see the scores I got, it gave me activities I am passionate about, but also need to work on to better myself.

Activity # 1 Nurturing Relationships

The first activity I had was Nurturing Relationship. I’ve been in a long term relationship for over seven years and this is something that I believe is important to nourish a relationship and keep it thriving. The book provided great suggestions on managing conflict within a relationship, the activity I chose was to express appreciation and affection. I called him or texted him every other day to let him know how much I appreciate him and how proud I am for being such a hard worker. Not only did this make him feel appreciated, but it brought us even closer as a couple, and that’s what’s important to me. Another activity I’ve worked on in Nurturing Relationship is managing conflict, this is a strategy we’ve been working on for a couple of months. So when I get mad about something instead of raising my

For this activity the book gave me many great examples such as meditation, spiritual such as praying, and physically. The one that I picked to do first was to start and take care of my body physically, I felt like this activity was most important to me at this time. Just as the book suggested for those who are just starting with exercising to start slow and pace yourself. So that’s exactly what I did, I made a plan and penciled them into my day. Along with starting the exercising I have started to eat healthier. I am now eating to fuel my body as of were as before I would eat anything that taste good. I have only been doing this for a little while, but I can feel I have more energy throughout the day. Now I’m just trying to make it a