Posts by Marilyn Shreve
Rethinking Your Health–take the first step!
Rethinking your health is a “call to action” for each of you… an awakening of sorts. Rethinking your health is a reminder to take a step forward and to think about what your health means to you. Being engaged with your health means being engaged with your life. I encourage you to think about your…
Read MoreCoffee Talk
How healthy is your daily cup of java? For me, coffee is the best part of waking up—I know I am in great company. Two-thirds of Americans drink coffee every day, The latest research suggest coffee might reduce the risk for several disease including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. The Caffeine Punch No…
Read MoreYounger Next Year
The book Younger Next Year for Women, written by Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry Lodge, will give you insight on the role exercise plays in the treatment of disease and aging. People with advanced emphysema and health disease do much better with exercise. People recovering from cancer do better with exercise. People with depression do…
Read MoreHaving A Social Network of Friends and Family Combined with a Positive Mental Outlook Helps You Heal
Five years ago, I went to the hospital to have a simple right hip replacement—a “piece of cake” I thought. As a result of a car collision, I had been going to Physical Therapy for a torn labrum of my right hip. However, although I was physically active, my hip was degenerating and I was…
Read MoreHealth is Listening
Don’t ever underestimate the power of listening… it is the key to effective communication and a necessary strength that you can master. Many of the situations that you deal with daily can be complicated and sometimes difficult to understand. How intently you listen can have a positive impact on your health. Listening is the foundation…
Read MoreNow Is the Only Time You Have to Live Fully and Well
Our time alive is brief by any standard. We will not be given a second chance. Now is the only opportunity we’ll have to give our life meaning and find satisfaction in our daily lives. We will not be given a second chance. Each of us is given an unknown amount of time alive on…
Read MoreHow We Live Our Lives
There is no deeper nor more challenging question that how we will live our lives. It confronts us at a collective as well as an intimate level. While we are waiting for the circumstances of our lives to match our expectations, life is waiting for us to release our expectations and realize the potential that…
Read MoreHealth is Creating a Bridge Between Your Spirituality and Your Work
To create a bridge between your spirituality and your work means that you take the essence of who you are and what you believe into your daily work life. It means that if kindness, patience, honesty and generosity are qualities that you believe in, you make every effort to practice those qualities at work. You…
Read MoreOne Day At A Time
To make a change in our life and/or develop a new habit “We do this one day at a time in a row.” A friend of mine recently came to understand that due to her diabetes, she had to stop eating “sweets—refined sugar”. She told me: “My mind is a very funny thing, if I…
Read MoreHealth is Being Resolute
Birds on a perch, as resolute as truth. It is a simple but complicated and sometimes messy life. Seeing the world from above, finding a home below. You face different health challenges and life balance issues every day …it is all about how you meet them.
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