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My Path to Wellness
My Path to Wellness Finding my way to a healthy body, mind and spirit This is the story of my chosen path to find my optimal health. It started when I was a child. My mom was obese, and when I was 5 she told me “you just wait, one day you will be fat like me.” I heard it as a threat. She was always in a moo moo dress and the kids at school would laugh at her as they would ask who's mom she was. I was walking home alone shortly after first grade started. Not because I wanted to, but I didn't want to listen to the kids making fun of her any more.
By Connie Sahlin5 years ago in Longevity
Fresh Start
Out With The Old, In With The New At this point of my life, I think I've earned the title of "Fresh Start Queen." Specifically speaking to leaving the old in the past and ushering in what's next! I became aware of this process in 2018 but it began way before then. Before I get into it, you should know that I'm attempting a one-in-a-lifetime career as an Actor, Producer and Writer. I moved to Hollywood, La-La Land three years and ten months ago. Man, my 4 year anniversary is around the corner and time has flown by! I've had around 7 different housing arrangements within these past 3 years and let me be the one to tell you that, you have no choice but to keep it moving!
By Leah Ella5 years ago in Longevity
Zero Gravity Massage Chair
Gravity Massage Chair, now if you where a modern day king or queen these are the chairs you’d be sitting on. If you are looking for the ultimate I mean ultimate in relaxation from a chair this is it. Think about it do you really think NASA would develop a chair what was uncomfortable to fly a shuttle or rocket to out space? No! I couldn’t think of a more stressful situation then getting to space and I’d definitely would want to be in a zero gravity massage chair while doing it! Another great thing about these chairs is they are proven to relieve back pain and muscle tension. They also can increase your circulation to help reduce pressure on your spine and heat.
By Nancy Thigpen5 years ago in Longevity
The Peace I've Found.
Sometimes I think about how, for someone who's only twenty-two years old, I seem to be dealing with a nice and heavy hand of health-issues. You ever carried around a bowling ball in your bag? Probably not, and I haven't either, but for the sake of analogy I just mean to say: You can imagine that, after a while, it would get pretty heavy. I've just been fighting these issues for so long it might be time to admit that it's finally gotten to me.
By H.L Parchment5 years ago in Longevity
Tarot: The Major Arcana
We begin our journey through the Tarot by examining the archetypal images that call forth psychic forces, forces which lead to interpretation of present and future events--the "is to be," in other words. Those cards are referred to as the "Major Arcana," and they represent long periods or great events and turning points in the life of the Questioner.
By Tom Baker5 years ago in Longevity
The Five F's of Wellness
So often, the word "wellness" becomes synonymous with a healthy weight. To me, however, wellness encompasses so much more. While nutritious food choices and an exercise regimen that work for you are important, I believe that wellness should also consider the mental and spiritual aspects of living. My wellness resolutions for 2021 aim to improve all areas of my life that I consider important. My "Five F's" of Wellness for 2021 are food, fun, faith, family, and fire.
By Malia Hebert5 years ago in Longevity
Newfoundland
Celebrities are Gods. Comparison plagues the world consistently. It seems as if nobody owns their own life. Everyone wants to be the next star. Deep down, within every human soul, rests a burning passion to become something more. A potential seed planted in everyone, this “selfishness” is far from wrong. However, so many of us have received false programming; the lot of humanity fails to recognize their personal strengths, instead choosing idolatry, mixed with envy, towards a fellow brother. What we fail to realize is that the only way to experience a dream come true is to willfully be the hero! Due to lack of confidence, not many stand strong enough to picture themselves fulfilling their dreams; therefore they praise someone else achieving these feats for them. A training of their mind would serve humanity tremendously.
By Getyourmindright5 years ago in Longevity
The Relationship between Gratitude and Regret
I don't know why I did it. Maybe it was because she had started losing fur, slowly. Bit by Bit. She walked with a fragileness I'd never seen before. I had a gut feeling she wasn't going to be here much longer.
By Nacreous5 years ago in Longevity
A Fat Girl's Manifesto
***TRIGGER WARNING*** There's no way to tell where it all really, truly started. It could have all started as a playful joke about the cookies and snacks I'd stacked high on my plastic lunch tray to compensate for waking up late and being forced to skip breakfast.
By Aaliyah Hanna5 years ago in Longevity
How I recovered from an unknown illness
CRIPPLING FEAR We live our lives daily not knowing what’s going on in our internal world of our bodies. We get up and lie down imagining that all is well even on our bad days. It all takes that one stimulus to trigger or awaken what has been festering deep within us. It is this event of the stimulus that puts us in fight or flight mode; true survival instincts begin to kick in depending upon our own beliefs. In relation to this, we receive subconscious messages through our dreams, feelings, mental states, environment, or our relationships, to name a few to let us instinctively know what’s presently occurring to us to bring us back into balance. Whether acute or chronic, the body never not finds a way to communicate with our conscious minds for protection, safety, maintenance, and growth & development.
By I AM5 years ago in Longevity
Finding Stillness in the Real World. Top Story - January 2021.
Most folks would agree that 2020 left us wanting more peace in our lives--and searching for tools and tricks to deal with the isolation and the anxiety that living in a time of pandemic can bring.
By Cid Rhinehart5 years ago in Longevity
Young and Kind
Working at a middle school is hard on its own. The year of 2017 I volunteered at a middle school in California. Monday-Friday spending 10-14 hours working, teaching, and creating lesson plans. I was not easy but every day I woke up ready to give 100 percent to each of my students. This was only a one-year commitment so I knew that I could sacrifice a year to help these students. 2017 was not an easy year for my family. No one is ever prepared for the loss of a close family member, let alone four of them. I lost my uncles, two aunts, and a cousin.
By KP5 years ago in Longevity