I am a mental health counselor who currently resides in Toscana, Italy. I am married to the most wonderful man who loves me regardless of all my flaws. Even though I am not fortunate enough to bear my own child, I am blessed to be a mother to two great children who I adopted some time back, thus creating my perfect blended family. One of the reasons why I chose to pursue mental health counseling to the Masters level is because I am compassionate, caring and a peoples person. I just turned forty-one years old this year and I am writing this fast forward autobiography describing my thoughts about my life on my eighty-fifth (85th) birthday.
As a professional counselor, one of my all-time accomplishments was the establishment of my own practice. It is very rewarding to see how my patients recover and resume their daily lives. Even though I retired ten years ago, when I was seventy-five (75) years old, I enjoyed every second of my job. I had an opportunity to cater for many people, including patients suffering from chronic diseases, the families of such patients, and the patients in the elderly homes, who comprise of the old-old, the oldest-old, and the super-centenarians. I also rendered my services to people suffering from Alzheimers disease, anxiety disorders, dementia, depressions and other mental illnesses. I applied several Cognitive Behavioral Interventions as therapeutic techniques of aiding my clients to improve their state. On a personal level, my best achievement was the adoption of our adorable children. They made my family complete and motivated me to be better person I could ever be. For this reason, I am more self-confident and satisfied with myself.
Considering my physical state, my body has changed with the course of time in that my eyesight is a bit poor as compared to my earlier years. It has affected my driving limits to only short distances. In addition, my height increased by three inches, and I am not very steady on my feet. It means that I can neither walk nor run as fast as I used to. However, I have not allowed these body changes to affect my health much, since I enlisted myself to yoga for seniors. The yoga exercises help me cope with my high blood pressure, which is very common in my family, although I take prescribed medication for the condition.
I believe that I am quite healthy, since I visit my personal doctor only four times annually, whereby most of the check-ups are done just for precautionary measures. I try to keep to a balanced diet every day, considering that my appetite is still good for my age, relax my body by sleeping for at least six hours a day and having a thirty minutes nap daily. Moreover, I do not smoke and only drink a glass of wine on a weekly basis. All these steps are aimed at improving my health and keeping me away from the doctor. I have several hobbies, which include tailoring, taking care of my garden by planting flowers and vegetables, reading short stories, cooking, and travelling around the world, especially to Europe with my friends and family.
Speaking about my relations with my friends, it has never been easy to cope with the death of a loved one. In my case, I have lost connection with the most of my friends, which is hard for me, since I do not know where they are and how they live. I have never contemplated my own death, since I believe that it is beyond my control. As a result, I take each day as it comes and, therefore, ensure that I spend more time with my children and grandchildren. For this reason, I am not involved in activities connected to any clubs or organizations in my community. I raised my children to be independent thinkers who are free to believe in any religion or culture they want. However, on the other hand, I am not involved in my ethnic or religious community.
I am happy and contended with my life as it is because I accomplished everything that I wanted in life. I have a wonderful family, I have beautiful loving grandchildren, and managed to establish my private business, thus, helping more people. I do not have any regrets except guilty feelings about some of my emotions during my teenage years. While growing up, I was not always a good decision maker. However with the passing of time, I gained more knowledge and wisdom. Some of the choices that I made in my life that make me proud include the adoption of my magnificent children and the decision to go back to school after dropping out some years back. Nevertheless, there is one resolution that I am not so gratified with, and it involves my lack of decisiveness in the issue of adoption. I waited too long to adopt my children and wasted much time thinking about the legitimacy of the procedure, my preparedness about having children and believing that I might be able to have children of my own. However even with all this, I am very satisfied with my life.
I hope to live longer than eighty five years and be a super centenarian. In order to achieve that I will eat well, exercise more and spend every last minute with my loving family members. I look forward to holding my great grandchildren and adding more achievements to my long list of accomplishments.
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