Since spiritual health is also something for which I am accountable (and which has been made part of a treatment plan with my internist), I'll be posting on that, in these threads, as well.

My initial mutual interview with my new priest has just been completed. She will be following up on the referrals the internist requested for people that I can see for the "heavy lifting" of PTSD in monthly or semimonthly visits to her, and to them. We talked in depth about discerning spiritual attack, and dealing with it. Also family systems paradigms currently applicable and how to enlarge common ground using family systems metaphors. One that covered a LOT of ground was: re-balancing a load of dirty towels to get a batch of clean towels out of the washer without tearing up the water lines in the process. We also touched on mutual friends from HS days (we attended the same HS but had never met back then), and "Life in the Fishbowl" which is pretty much the same in any ordained person's neck of the woods. We set up some interim stuff to carry us thru vacay, and made a plan for post-vacay/continuing work.... she affirmed everything I am doing and declined to bring anything to my attention for confession.

The nightmares and projectile pooping have stopped. (The bedtime prayers have resumed.)

Now, on to the day's long-awaited PT. The facility has great equipment and a nice, tiny warm-pool with a TREADMILL. I am asking to go faster, and they are telling me to go slower; we meet in the middle. Their aquatic PT-ist is PT first and aquatics second, so she is teaching me some great muscle-isolating stuff I'd never had a chance to learn-- and I am orienting her to the local aquatics scene and some Extreme Aquajogging stuff I used to teach. It's a good fit and a good partnership. I hurt now, just enough, so that I know her slowdowns were correct-- she DID find places I had not known I had, LOL-- but not so much that I think we'll be that slow in two days. My schedule opened up so that a workout I had thought I would miss is now scheduled into the plan. And I can still pack a pool bag and get there on time. And, LOL, the money? They don't want any yet. I have plenty of time to marshal resources to get the benefit of this precious time.

~S~