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9 Easy Steps to Get You in Shape and Lose Weight Faster
Did you ever think that you could get fit with no gym requirement? Whether you want to learn how to challenge yourself, set goals, or begin a weekly workout routine, you can track your progress in a journal writing down any breakthroughs you experience.
By Silena Le Beau8 years ago in Longevity
Victims of PMDD?
We need to talk. I just saw yet another PMDD post on Facebook that calls us "victims" of this condition. I cringed but nearly scrolled on by until something made me scroll back on up and reply. It was a feeling in my gut, a compulsion, that if I ignored would make me complicit in a cycle of abuse.
By Cheeky Minx8 years ago in Longevity
Listening to Your Own Silence
Sometimes the most recognizable form of disruption that we, as humans, register is noise. That noise comes in the form of yelling, stomping, slamming, bar graphs, lists, obligations, financial problems, schedules, friendly banter, unnecessary banter, 24-hour news cycles, and unexpected rocky bumps in the road. The list is as long as the dictionary. I can ask you to sit down and write out every form of internal dialog that you had with yourself since you woke up this morning and I bet that you would just be able to graze the surface.
By Seth Tyler Black8 years ago in Longevity
Life, Grief...
Grief’s a funny thing. Not hilarious, but funny as in weird, the way that it can creep up on you silently or smack you full in the face and destroy you. It doesn’t wait until a convenient moment when you can prepare for it and meet it with hope and determination. It’s almost as big an asshole as the cancer that causes it for so many people. Grief was never taught manners, it has no sympathy for you, and it certainly doesn’t care that you have things you need to be doing. It’s been said that it’s a necessary evil of life; one of the steps in a process to recover from loss. I don’t see it as a step so much as a recurring theme when it comes to loss; one that never completely goes away, but one that eases with time, guidance, and distractions. In 2012, within the span of two months, I lost two of the most important men in my life to cancer. There are days when it doesn’t feel real, and as though I’ll wake up and see them again, hear their voices, and share in their laughter. Crushing, cruel reality breaks in and grief visits again. There are barely words to express the hopeless feeling that nothing will ever be the same again. That when all I want in the world is to talk to them, instead I have the knowledge that they can’t hear me, or respond the way I need. I believe their spirits are living on in me, in everyone they touched in their short lives, in the sky, the trees and the earth. I don’t believe there’s a God who has a reason for taking them away from me, or any higher power who has control over these things. It sometimes feels as though a grander scheme is at work, but at the end of the day, every one of us is responsible for how our lives turn out. Preaching and crying to someone who can’t hear you and cannot physically give you comfort or strength seems fruitless to me.
By Caitlin Hartlen8 years ago in Longevity
Out of the Ordinary
It was in the middle of summer right before I started my freshman year of high school and I was about to turn 15 years old. I can still remember when I heard the term “autism” when my parents received the news from special educational diagnosticians at Scottish Rite Hospital. At the time, neither my parents nor I really understood what Asperger’s Syndrome (high-functioning autism), or autism was or what it meant. My parents had heard of it before but never really gave it much thought. They seemed a little puzzled and devastated due to the fact that I didn’t have traditional autistic traits. I remember my parents sitting me down along with my two younger brothers, who were getting very emotional to discuss it. I kind of dozed off, cutting off reality, puzzled, and not fully understanding to what was happening.
By Victoria Leake8 years ago in Longevity
Cardio Kickboxing: Why Everyone Should Try It
You might be thinking: how in the world could I ever punch and kick something? Sounds a lot like me almost a year ago. I'm probably the last person you would expect to be throwing jabs and uppercuts for fun, yet here I am.
By Kristianna Pennisi8 years ago in Longevity
How To Gain Lean Muscle for the Summer
Do you want to know how to gain muscle whilst losing fat? Read below to find out how! I first went to the gym in 2008 as a 6-foot 1-inch boy aged 15, and weight roughly 9 stone (130lbs). Today, I am roughly 15.5 stone at roughly 10% body fat. I was, at my heaviest, roughly 17 stone.
By Kieran Bowyer8 years ago in Longevity
