I am no expert, but I want to share my cancer battles and my journey through depression with you, and some stress reduction ideas for your life. Plus strategies I have found successful and give you tools for success with your health and life. Life can knock us down through health or life difficulties but that doesn't need to stop us. Welcome friends, I am so glad you are here and that you learn something helpful along the way!
So in my last post I introduced some information about fasting. It has become a popular health practice so I wanted to give it some attention and give you more details. I have provided a lot of information below, but hopefully the short format will help you. Why Do People Fast? Spiritual/Religious Reasons: Many cultures …
Politics. Just that word can make you immediately imagine division or distrust. Or give you hives! Or make you close your ears. Common response for so many people. It's unfortunately a sign of where things are today. But what if that didn’t happen? It doesn’t need to. Politics, whether you want to admit it or …
So I won't really be able to share all that I learned during my cancer journey in two short posts but I'm hoping to share a few things I learned that might have an impact for you. And maybe get you thinking. Things change immediately once you get the news. Yes, immediately. Well that's what …
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It’s something I haven’t done for a while. A long while. Too long really. A few weeks ago I went skating. It’s been years since I have done it and much longer since I’ve done it regularly. I was very excited to go again after that, so I did. Since I had gone to an …
Where should I start? I am going to split this in to 2 separate posts but I could probably do many more, since I have learned so many things going through all that I have been through. So maybe the title should be some of the things I have learned. Here is a little bit …
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Your smile. It can be something that you share often and use freely or something that you hide and might not bring out very often. Let's admit it, if you are being really honest, you are similar to most of us and when you see yourself in a picture, you quickly make a judgment on …
For anyone who has been around me long enough, and heard me talk about my health journey in any way, you have probably heard me say this, "I wouldn’t have chosen it, but I wouldn’t change it?" What does that mean? You might be able to guess but I am going to tell you anyway. …
Regret. It's something that we are all likely going to face at some point in our lives, if not many times. Hard to avoid really. But I guess it depends on what you are regretting, why you are regretting it and how you plan to move forward past the regret. Easier to talk about than …
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Hhmm is depowered a word? I'm not too sure, but let's go with it just for me. Like so many things in life, it comes down to choice or choices. Are your choices going to empower you or remove your power? Are you going to take back power and control or give it away? Every …
You might find yourself sitting there in a situation and your biggest decision factors are what others will think of what you have done or will do. Wow! That’s overwhelming and a lot to carry. And it really seems like a no win scenario.
Melodee Glassford 