{"id":3481,"date":"2009-03-20T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:35:11","slug":"self-care-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/03\/20\/self-care-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Care Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 I let many aspects of self-care slide, so I endeavor to do better this year. I didn&#8217;t make any resolutions. I just made a list of the appointments I had not accommodated last year and set out to get them scheduled and accomplished. As of this date I have achieved the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eye exam (new Rx)<\/li>\n<li>Dental cleaning (with the next one scheduled)<\/li>\n<li>Mammogram (all clear)<\/li>\n<li>Knee repair (in progress)<\/li>\n<li>Annual exam\/bloodwork (all fine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first quarter of the year hasn&#8217;t passed yet and I&#8217;ve done a lot! In fact, I don&#8217;t think I have any other major health issues requiring visits to professionals. I&#8217;m not due for a pap smear until next year, and all my immunizations are up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list for self-care is to exercise more, lose some weight, and find a group with whom to meditate (perhaps the Kannon Do Zen Center). I also may, if our lives aren&#8217;t upended by moving chaos, manage to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothersplunge.com\/\">Mother&#8217;s Plunge Retreat<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in all of this exercising and meditating I will slip in the occasional knitting project, or a drawing or collage, perhaps a little poem writing, and as always, something to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 I let many aspects of self-care slide, so I endeavor to do better this year. I didn&#8217;t make any resolutions. I just made a list of the appointments I had not accommodated last year and set out to get them scheduled and accomplished. As of this date I have achieved the following: Eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}