Posted November 6, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Goals and Wellness

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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

~Henry Ford

Goals are an interesting thing. We do best when we have a goal. With wellness, having a goal is important, that is for sure. When I did an online search for […]

Posted October 30, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Not a Rehearsal

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Something about what Dale Partridge has written goes right to the core. Life is too short to waste even one moment, much less a day, week, month, or years. I was pondering the truth of this, when a fun webpage titled “Develop a Can Do Attitude” caught my attention. It ties […]

Posted October 23, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Latitude Matters

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“We have quantitated the ability of adequate amounts of vitamin D to prevent all types of invasive cancer combined, which had been terra incognita until publication of this paper,” said Cedric Garland, DrPH, adjunct professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and member […]

Posted October 16, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Tribe

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A small church around the corner has a book club. They have recently been reading Sebastian Junger’s book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. According to news reports, Tribe is Junger’s last book about war. “As last words go, it’s a good way to end, as this particular monograph may end up shaping—and […]

Posted October 9, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Squiggles and Squares

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A search for personality profiles will yield over 19 million webpages. Why do you think something with so little scientific evidence commands so much of our attention? Because, instinctively, we all agree with Martha Washington, when she said, “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not […]

Posted October 2, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Safe Soap

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Sometimes the best ingredients are the ones that are missing. That is soon to be the case when it comes to soap.

Soon, according to NBC news, antibacterial agents will no longer be found in soaps, and that is very good news.

“Companies will no longer be able to […]

Posted September 25, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Exchange of Ideas

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“If you have a penny and I have a penny and we exchange pennies, you still have one cent and I still have one cent. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, you now have two ideas and I now have two […]

Posted September 18, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Cupping

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When legendary swimmer, Michael Phelps, jumped into the pool to win his 19th Olympic Gold Medal, he did so with peculiar round blotches on his back. Thankfully, an online news article cleared up any questions about it by explaining the ancient art of cupping.

Cupping is a process by which glass […]

Posted September 11, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Live a Balanced Life

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“Now we realize that our days are not really ours. We can plan them, but we can’t really control them. That’s just the way it is, and it’s okay.”

Many of us still consider 9/11 as a day to remember. This quotation from Hazelden Foundation reminded me that, for some, […]

Posted September 4, 2016 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Que Sera, Sera

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Resistance leads to persistence. Whatever you resist or push against simply persists and pushes back in equal measure. Instead, transform resistance into acceptance by practicing “Que Sera, Sera … whatever will be, will be…”

This was the Brahma Kumaris daily thought. While most of us have some sense of the […]