Another celebrity gone...
This entry was posted on 2/13/2012 8:40 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
It is with a heavy heart we have to say good-bye to yet another celebrity...tragic as always. It is sad to see someone with a gift that lets go of it for drugs or alcohol or depression...we know there are ways to help and people who want to help, but it still seems hard to make it happen.
There is no way of knowing if Whitney Houston could have found a way out of her spiral. No way of guessing or speculating what might have worked or what she had done so far and what might have helped reignite the spark she used to light the hearts of her fans. It will be years before all of the stories come out about what she did and what she was like...she seemed to have it all and seemed to want to throw it away for an escape from her reality. Tragic.
We help people. It is the career choice we made. We have never encountered someone that could not be helped, but we deal with real world situations and real people...sometimes it seems that celebrities become something other than real and consequently cannot be helped by conventional methods. But we do know what has helped hundreds, thousands, even millions of people feel better about themselves.
Exercise and lifestyle. It is not a cure...it is a tool. A tool that can help improve the body's ability to fight back against stress and illness and worry. A tool that can help manage and improve some body image issues and confidence issues. A tool that you can carry around with you anywhere and use at anytime. A tool that is actually a belief that you deserve to be happy and deserve to be healthy. It is a tool, that, in moderation, can be the best treatment and preventative step someone can take as a step towards a healthy and happy future.
Money cannot buy it. Position cannot acquire it. Food cannot feed it. But stress, and the inability to fight it to your advantage, can take it away. it can make us doubt our value, and doubt our worth. It can rob us of our confidence and block the memories that convince us we DO deserve to feel at ease. It can take away our reality that we are allowed to be flawed human beings in search of greater good. It can make us resent our place and what we have done by allowing us to compare ourselves to people with completely different circumstances.
Maybe Ms Houston lost sight of that. Maybe she put so much pressure on herself to stay famous that she lost sight of the person she had become. It is a shame it may not have had to happen. We can only imagine the people close to her begging her to seek out a solution. Hopefully it can help someone else before it happens again. RIP Ms. Whitney Houston. You opened our ears with your voice...hopefully your actions can open someone else's eyes.
