I am no expert, but I want to share my cancer battles and my mental health journey with you, some stress reduction ideas for your life, and hopefully some fun things along the way. Plus strategies I have found successful for me and give you tools for success with your health and life. Life can knock us down through health or life challenges 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!
Health, what if you lose it? There are likely a few types of initial responses to that question, but 2 that are probably very common. Well for the majority of people I think, anyway. There are those who think about this question constantly. They think about it, they dwell on it, and it can consume …
What if we weren’t created to know what’s going on in the Congo? What if we weren’t created to see what’s going in Syria? What do you think about that? Is it offensive or maybe you kind of agree with those ideas? What you ever thought about that? So many of us live our normal …
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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 …
Control. It’s something that we all would like, even if we won’t admit it to others and we can’t admit it to ourselves. You know it's true. I am right in the middle of dealing with a huge loss of control. I’m out of the country on a trip right now, and one of the …
Do you look around and just see darkness? Difficulty? Struggles? Hopelessness? Quite honestly it's hard not to, especially in the darkness of the winter season. And so many people out there only see that. You might even ask how can anyone have hope in the middle of all of these bad things going on in …
-50 DEGREES!!!! Yes -50 degrees windchill outside friends. Yikes. 😨 I like to call winter the season we regularly ask ourselves "just why in tarnation do we continue to live here?" The answer to that question could be logical or even illogical. Depends on the day I suppose. Or perhaps the temperature outside more likely. Here in Saskatchewan, we are …
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It really feels like I have spent much of my life sitting in hospital waiting rooms and in clinics waiting for medical tests. It really started when I was 16, with cancer diagnosis #1. While I haven't done every medical test possible (thank goodness) I have definitely completed a whole lot of them. Some of …
Have you done much travelling? It doesn't necessarily need to be going across the globe to a far away place. It could just maybe going to the country next door and exploring. Do you enjoy travel? Seeing new places and finding new things? Travelling and seeing different places and new cultures have so many benefits …
Coping. It's something that most of us figure out naturally or sub-consciously to some degree. Sometimes these coping skills or decisions are not the wisest though. If I am in crisis or under stress about anything, I will generally try to find a way to cope with it. Sometimes purely for sanity in the moment …
There is no doubt all of us do this or have done this at some point. Compare our self with someone else. When we compare ourselves to others, in the end we are the ones that lose. Lose joy, peace, contentment, mental health and possibly relationships. Yet, so many of us live in that mindset …
Melodee Glassford 