Grip Life

Your health is important so today we are going to Grip Life to its fullest by addressing the seven health elements outlined by Dr. Elizabeth W. Grubbs in her book Grip Life.

Welcome to this edition of Newsgram!

So…how you doin’? How’s your health?

Last week I was having one of those days, you know the kind. Nothing was going right and someone said to me “well, at least you have your health” and you know…as much of a cliche as that is there is a lot of truth in it.

Good health is something to be grateful for. At the very least it’s a lot cheaper to be healthy. Trust me on that. My son is a Diabetic. So today we are going to examine the different aspects of health because according to Dr. Grubbs author of the book Grip Life, there are seven of them and the first one is the most obvious, Physical Health.

Dr. Grubbs – Physical health can be movement for just about any age because you can do low level exercises if you’re over sixty-five or seventy or what have you. Physical health can certainly relieve stress and it has to do with body wellness. Some people use physical health to maintain their weight.

One of the areas we tend to take for granted in this country is Mental Health. Poor mental health is a medical condition and we should treat is just like our physical health. It’s too often ignored. There are lots of reasons for that, I’m guessing it’s because we aren’t always in tune with the symptoms and it can be hard to detect.

Dr. Grubbs – Mental Health I think is one of the most important ones. Because it’s mind wellness. If you don’t have your mind you don’t know what your doing physically, mentally and you may not be able to succeed vocationally because it will influence your employment rating beside that you have financial health and certainly mental health could influence your financial health especially if your getting that money from a salary or through a job or if you need to master your budget.

She says the best way to maintain or acquire a normal, productive life is to avoid neglecting any element of your health which includes all seven areas. Physical, Mental, Financial and Vocational health are four of them and based on what you’ve heard so far these are easy enough to understand but what about Social Health? How active are you in your community or with others at work? This is a huge issue. How is your network of family and friends? It’s important to look at.

Dr. Grubbs – People seem to shun people who have been in mental institutions or have had some mental illnesses in their family now they may not invite you to the sorority or to various different organizations or different types of socials whereas if the group thought you had something to offer to the group might invite you to be a member.

You might have more to offer than you know.

Speaking of your community, another aspect of health is Spiritual Health, it’s a factor no matter what you believe.

Dr. Grubbs – Different people believe in different things. I really don’t try to push my belief on anybody. I wrote that because I grew up in a Southern family that valued family, valued God and certainly valued education and personally i said well let me check a few bible verses and see if they relate to each of these elements of health and i found out that did and I use those because I certainly believe in Christian living I thought well if everybody lived by the ten commandments this might be a better world.

Amen to that…

Dr. Grubbs – Sometimes if you give that stress, talking to somebody who is not gonna tell anybody. you close up in a room all by yourself and talk to God. That has helped me. I don’t know if it’s helped anybody else but i do believe in doing that. That’s how these different elements can influence each other.

And that’s a key point right there. Understanding the different elements is one thing but understating how they intertwine to affect each other is something else entirely. A good example is the family dynamic. What kind of home did you grow up in? Different families have different dynamics, different values, different structures, rules and beliefs.

Dr. Grubbs – The head of the family would influence the other people in the family and then those people would live that way from their influence in teaching and influence the community and communities can impact states and states impact nations and nations impact the world so it has a rolling impact on

Pretty interesting right? Your health, your choices, your life has a far reaching impact. One of my favorite movies is “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Clarence, George Bailey’s Angel in Training, once said to him “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”

When you think about it that way, all of a sudden it’s not about you anymore. It’s your life but it’s also about everyone you come in contact with. Let’s outline a plan for a healthier you.

Dr. Grubbs – The biggest room in the world is room for improvement.

Another great quote to remember. The book is called Grip Life and in it there is some space provided for you to write down your improvement plan or areas that you want to work on. It’s all about healthy living for you and for all of us for generations to come.

Dr. Grubbs – I love sweets when i was growing up and I do now but I now but I know not to pack ice cream in my freezer or bake cakes or whatever because my grandmother would preach that and I notice that said you have too many sweets that’s not good for you, you know I mean one a week but now I have tot have some kind of self control. You have to practice self control and I think the elderly lady was very wise and she knew what she was talking about and she would walk every day and all that. She lived to be one hundred years old and her sister lived to be one hundred and seven. I’m thinking well I ain’t gonna get there but I do want to live as long as I can.

I hope she does get there and I hope you do too. Dr. Elizabeth W. Grubbs has plenty of wisdom to share. She has lived in and out of the United States. She has seen extreme poverty and extreme wealth in the same cities. She has obtained degrees and other experiences in education, counseling, and supervision from Tuskegee University, Livingston University, University of Mexico, and Wayne State University and her book Grip Life is available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Xlibiris.com and many other places and that will do it for this edition of Newsgram.

Dr. Grubbs was featured on the Books on Air podcast. Listen to the full length interview.

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