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Rethinking Your Health–take the first step!
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Coffee Talk
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Younger Next Year
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Having A Social Network of Friends and Family Combined with a Positive Mental Outlook Helps You Heal
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Health is Listening
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Now Is the Only Time You Have to Live Fully and Well
By Marilyn Shreve
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. ...
Continue Reading How We Live Our Lives
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Health is Creating a Bridge Between Your Spirituality and Your Work
By Marilyn Shreve
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, ...
Continue Reading One Day At A Time
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Health is Being Resolute
By Marilyn Shreve
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 ...
Continue Reading Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change
By Marilyn Shreve
We believe in home and that our home should restore us from the stresses of the day and ready us for tomorrow. We believe in seeking the balance between hustle and rest and learning to find contentment in both. We believe in kindness, knowing we are made better when we all work together. We believe…
Continue Reading Make Yourself Stronger
By Marilyn Shreve
More than ever we need qualities like grit, resilience and drive as well as physical power and stamina for a healthy mind and body. Fortunately. having one can make building all the others easier, research has found. Studies indicate that increasing your physical strength ” allows you to see that you can do difficult things…
Continue Reading The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses
By Marilyn Shreve
Michelangelo had his Pope Julius II, Mozart his Colloredo. But they did not make excuses about the restrictions placed upon them. They made masterworks that changed the standards of art and music. In the US healthcare system, the medicines are complex, and the regulations are stifling but using the complexity of our healthcare system as…
Continue Reading Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!
By Marilyn Shreve
The Pledge of Allegiance just thirty-one words… whether we are aware of it or not, these thirty-one words carved out a place in our hearts—in the shape of a true patriot: a love of liberty, a defender of faith, a promoter of unity, a champion of peace, a protector of democracy and a guardian on…
Continue Reading For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters
By Marilyn Shreve
A new study in the journal Global Epidemiology authored by Dr, Brendan Case (Associate Director for Research at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program gain and Dr. Ying Chen, research associate), it makes the case in its findings that married women were more optimistic and had a greater sense of purpose. Their findings’ were striking. The…
Continue Reading Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way
By Marilyn Shreve
We sometimes forget that, as recently as the 19th century, people suffered through gruesome surgeries without anesthesia. The first part of the 20th century saw only slow progress in clinical medicine. Even by the early 1970s, doctors, for the most part, could only observe the human devastation caused by serious diseases. Physicians had little in…
Continue Reading AWAKENINGS
By Marilyn Shreve
Spring, a time of awakening. Everything is clear and fragrant. “Live in each season as it passes: Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” Henry David Thoreau Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. By finding beauty in the ordinary , you can add…
Continue Reading Declutter Your Mind
By Marilyn Shreve
“If you don’t know what to do with it, or where to put it, or why you ever bought it in the first place, or if looking at it depresses you, throw it out,” say Leslie Raycraft my friend and CEO of Posh Organizing in Connecticut. According to Gail Blanke, a personal life coach, here…
Continue Reading It’s Time to BREATHE
By Marilyn Shreve
Studies have shown that increasing the flow of oxygen to the brain and lungs can help reduce stress and impose endurance. As we face change in our world, just a thought to help you remember to breathe.
Continue Reading Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!
By Marilyn Shreve
Record your holy cow revelations. Answer the big “why not?” questions. Make your own life…in dreams there are no impossibilities. Capture new ideas that encourage you to press on regardless. Expand on those magical callings that give your heart wings. Celebrate the dreamer in you. Life is the grand adventure and only a life worth…
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