UH.. I wake up everyday and realize that my 30 year HS reunion is in 2012.

My 30 was 2 yrs ago.

I've gone to weekend retreats and spas.

Everyone comes to me for stress relief -- training or massage -- and I have to release my pressure cooker of a life too.

I prefer to pamper myself beyond my means and go to an expensive resort about 3 times a year.

Today I walked 10 blocks to the store and picked out groceries before realizing that, while my wallet was in my pocket, my money was at home.

Took over 40 minutes to walk home, get my money, then walk back to the store.

Then they tell me that "You were gone too long, we put everything back so it wouldn't get damaged." Even the non-frozen goods. Stupid people.

Wasted an entire evening pretty much with this crap. If I ever needed a stress center, it is now.

'"heavy bag" im tellin ya cheapest therapy goin.!

I don't know about a stress center- but sometimes I feel a padded room and a straight jacket calling me!

YA BABY

I don't know what a stress centre is....

Going off what Melody wrote, I suspect it is like a retreat...


then yes...after both my parents and an aunt passed away within 3 months of each other, had been divorced in the same time frame... had witnessed a tragic accident at my place of work, and was being called as witness for the prosecution, into the accident...in the same time period, have my kid's dad decide he preferred to live in Canada, and cut ALL ties, emotional and financial.... I needed to go to a retreat, or a really short walk off a high cliff...

I went on a 7 day silent retreat called Vapassna...a silent meditation...

would I do it again?

yep, if all those stressors appeared together again, as in compounding external stressors, I would need to be there...

We are no good to ourselves or our families, when we are so out of balance.