An acquaintance on Wednesday told me that his multiple physicians didn’t seem to want to spend much time with him because there is nothing more they can do for him. He said he had his annual Medicare physical and all the physician did was review his medications and his labs and then ended the visit. I said, “Well they call it an annual Medicare physical but it isn’t really a physical, it is an annual wellness check to review meds., labs, and appropriateness of current treatment plan.”
I continued on “As humans we are composed of body and soul. The physician is only interested in your body. If there isn’t any more to be done to fix physical problems they move on to other patients. However, I am a psychotherapist, and psyche means soul, so maybe we should also do an annual spiritual wellness check. So what’s your spirit like these days?”
He looked at me a little perplexed and then seemed to soften and said, “Well, they tell me I am grumpy.”
So I have been thinking what indicators should be covered on an “annual spiritual wellness check?”
Should people have an annual spiritual wellness check-up on their soul just as they do for their body?
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