Spiritual Stuff

So this comes in a form of a little story and it was actually really, really...it's

kind of even hard for me to talk about because it brings up a lot of stuff. But on July 4th,

we lost Kuma... but then we found him! Yay!!! Okay so here's what happened, here's the deal!

So my brother and his girlfriend came up to our house at Sag Harbor for 4th of July weekend.

Josh and I went to do some Yoga and so we left Kuma with my brother who also has a dog.

So there's this big huge English Bulldog and little tiny Kuma hanging out in the backyard.

Again remember, 4th of July weekend, Kuma's eight-months old. Apparently, fireworks went

off and totally freaked Kuma out and he did something that he's never done before which

is fu**ing bolt! He ran away. He ran outside of our yard and Josh and I were driving back

from yoga, and I seen my brother walking down the street. Like my brother's a pretty tanned

dude, like big dude. Just looks miserable white and like panic-stricken and his girlfriend

Kelly was freakin' crying, and we're like, "What is happening?"

They're like, "Kuma ran away. Fireworks went off. He ran off and we can't find him." My

stomach dropped. Thank God I'd just went to yoga because something in me felt like everything's

going to be okay and I was like, "Am I just totally zoned out or am I crazy right now?

But whatever, let's just go with it." So we spent the next two hours you know, driving

around the neighborhood, asking people you know and as time goes on, everything just

started feeling worse and worse.

I called the local radio station. I called the police. We did everything that we could

and about two hours had gone by, and Josh and I sat and we said, "Okay, what's the next

action that we need to take?" So we sat down and we started making handwritten signs that

says, "Lost Dog! His name is Kuma," and with our phone numbers on it and everything. So

we got in the car and we started driving around.

We put up like two or three signs and then we said you know, "Let's go to this little

local place called Cromer's. It's a tiny little like deli/grocery store in the neighborhood

but it's about a mile away. Now a mile away across a very busy road, we're like you know,

we figured just if anyone finds him maybe they'd be there. So we're driving up and we

get into Cromer's and we pull into the parking lot, and a lady was standing there holding

Kuma in her hand and he was like, panting.

We're like, "Holy sh*t!" I just broke down. Obviously we found him, we brought him back

home. It was fine. The interesting thing is he's such a smart little guy. That's the only

place in town that he knows of. Like we drive there to get groceries and he doesn't know

where yoga is so he couldn't go there. Anyway, we get back to the house, we tell my brother

and Kelly you know we found the dog. Everyone's so happy, we took down the signs, we call

the radio station.

Everything's cool. Then it hit what I call "emotional hangover, we had an "emotional

hangover." I remember thinking to myself, there was a couple of hours before we were

going to go to the beach and hang out, and I've had a lot of work to do lately. A lot

of writing and creating and things to do, and I was like "God, I should be working right

now. Kuma's back, everything's fine. Everything's cool!" And I was like, "You know what, girlfriend

needs to take a friggen nap!" I was exhausted!

You know, one of the things that happens if you have an emotionally charged situation.

You know God forbid, a death, a loss in the family, a move, something just devastating

happens to you in your life. Your adrenal system just goes on fire and especially for

women who can like just take a lot of emotion and really have it up here, and when our adrenal

system gets taxed you feel exhausted.

If you happen to be anything of like a work alcoholic like I am, you know you may feel

like, "Oh I should be over this right now," or feel guilty because everything's okay or

feel like you should be coping better. And what I've learned is that when you have an

emotional hangover, you really need to chillax. Like you need to chill the fu*k out and just

give yourself a little bit of time to take a rest, to eat really healthy and nutritious

food. To reach out to people that you love and just let them know that maybe you're having

a little bit of a hard time, and you know you just need a little extra support.

But most of all, it's like you have to take care of your body and emotional hangover,

think about it. If you went and tossed back like five or six margaritas the night before,

you'd sleep in because your body needs to rest; it needs to recover. Same thing is true

with emotional hangovers. So if you've had an emotional hangover yourself; if you've

ever experienced anything like this, I would love to hear your story!

Plus if you have tips on how you deal with emotional hangover, things that you know help

you just kind of move along faster to really take care of your body and just be good to

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