Keeping with an exercise plan, or any healthy lifestyle choice for that matter, is difficult. For every reason we have to do something good for ourselves, we can always come up with loads of reasons to not do it. The weather is too hot/cold/rainy to go outside… I ate a carrot stick yesterday, so I…
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Choosing Strength Over Weakness: Self Advocacy in Healthcare
Who would have thought that self-advocacy for one’s own healthcare would become such an essential part of caring for ourselves and loved ones? But it is. Maybe the pandemic experience accelerated the process, but the resulting impersonal characteristics of the healthcare machine have become very visible. Where caring for one’s health was something that could…
Do We Label Life Too Much?
Funny how every life experience demands a label these days. In healthcare and fitness circles, complex physical conditions must first be reduced to a pathology with a trendy sounding acronym. That “disease”, and I use the term loosely, astonishingly happens to be best addressed through the use of the products they just happen to be…
Nature’s Balancing Act
Balance is everything in Nature and the consequences of imbalances can be quite severe at times. Nature does not fool around. As an example, our bodies perform an intricate balancing act with salts and other minerals (like sodium, potassium, and calcium) in our normal physiology. The ability of muscles and nerves to function is based…
Why We Need Grown Up Play
There is something therapeutic when we create play after we have grown up. The source of healing for some present day wounds may lie in our past “Turn off that TV and get out of here. I don’t want to see you again until lunch.” Mom had an economical way with words when I was…