Advice is such a funny thing. Certainly everyone loves to be able to give advice, it makes you feel like you are being a good friend. Giving advice makes you feel smart, like you have something important and interesting to say. Also, giving advice gives you a chance to talk about yourself, which everyone likes to do.
Getting advice is so incredibly hard. You want to hear suggestions and cures and remedies, but there is a tremendous pressure to respond so gratefully. Sometimes the advice is just not going to work or be at all useful - the nutritionist telling me to eat more red meat - its just not going to happen.
When you are getting advice, you really want to listen and generally my friends have been really helpful and kind, (thank you Christa for throat coat tea and honey!). There is a huge stress that comes when you receive a lot of advice.
I have been feeling like I need to take everybody's advice, except that it can all be so different. For example, should I sleep more and keep my body calm and well rested? Or should I make sure and take that walk and try to get to the gym a few times a week, like my body had been used to? The advice that I should listen to my body is also hard to take, I want to be back at the gym and I loved my cardio classes, but there is so much stress right now on my time and trying to keep everything scheduled...
I certainly have a feeling that I am not doing enough when I am unable to take everyones advice. I still feel bad about all the milk and dairy that I eat, when the accupuncture lady told me that dairy feeds cancer cells! Where did she find that piece of information???
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