I was wondering whether cultivating healthy screen relationships could be an interesting choice for a post. So much of our daily communications are with these apps and nothing seems to be broken. Everything in social media paradise is hunky dory. At least, that is what our screen relationships tell us anyway. Let’s go question some…
The marketing of fitness in the United States is booming. Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent yearly participating in exercise activities, as well as supplying equipment needs, buying nutritional supplements, and using fitness oriented services. Funny though how we are still unhealthy as a national population. Did we not spend enough money or is…
In my younger days, I listened to older athletes talk about getting older and changes in performance they had experienced. It always sounded like the changes of aging took place gradually over time. It may have, however, just been my wishful thinking. Holding out a hope that I would be exempt from such speedy declines….
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…
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…