Emotional health is really vital to our overall wellbeing. When this vitality is stunted, we suffer greatly. According to a couple of doctor's I have researched, we respond in one of two ways: addiction or disease.
We have to listen to our gut and to our emotions and our spirit needs to able to communicate to us too. There are confounding obstacles to these processes built into our society (at least in Western culture) making it a challenge to live well.
As I get time, I hope to share details to remind myself and whomever stumbles across this path what is at stake, how important it is to continue to strive for wellness in these areas and the tools some of us have used along the way.