We can never tell what stressful events Life will offer us. Perhaps we cannot know what current relationships and situations in our personal lives are getting ready to explode into chaos - chaos that will leave us reeling for weeks and months to come. We can’t even say for sure whether or not we or our loved ones will make it through this very day to be reunited again.

If you had asked me two months ago how things are going – if my life were stable… I would have replied with the utmost confidence that life was grand. My kids are doing wonderfully. I am happily married. Things are very smooth indeed.

As of this writing I am toward the end of my divorce negotiations, and living in a strange apartment! My kids are struggling to adjust to a new separated life and I find it hard to concentrate. My entire future changed in one brief moment…and a few weeks later nothing around me looks the same.

Thankfully, I have the support of some key people in my life. I have my spiritual beliefs. And - I have my health. During the last year I have taken my health seriously. I cleaned up my diet. I began to exercise vigorously. I figured out what supplements I need to take regularly. I recommitted to my spiritual path.

I dropped 40 pounds. I sleep better. I have much more energy and I lost that mildly depressed feeling that seemed to haunt me. I simply can’t imagine going through this kind of grief, pain and stress without this level of health. This very difficult situation might have been completely overwhelming otherwise.

So, I deeply thank the columnists and advertisers in Healthy Times for showing me the way to health – and for inspiring me to take the steps I needed, and still need, to take. I am honored to be a part of this local movement that seems to be catching on more and more with each issue.