Health and Wellness

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Leaping Outside Your Comfort Zone

Leaping out of your comfort zone is not always an easy thing to do, but it’s how we learn and grow. By going beyond our comfort zones, we discover who we truly are and what we can accomplish in this world. The last few years have really forced me to step out of my comfort zone, and experience the exhilarating feeling of proving what I can do! Here are a few of the things I’ve done in the past few years, and how it has transformed my life!

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Managing Fibromyalgia Flareups feels like this woman enjoying the sunshine while standing in sunflower field.

Managing Fibromyalgia Flareups

Managing Fibromyalgia (FM) flareups feels like stepping back into the sunshine again! When the pain becomes unbearable, we need tools to bring the pain under control again. It never ceases to amaze me how much pain I’m willing to live with if it makes life easier! Mercifully, none of my family members have chronic illness or the food sensitivities that I do. It’s challenging to make separate meals for myself and for my family. I have realized though, that this is now essential to my health and productivity. Here are my 5 tips for getting my FM under control, and I know they will help you too.

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What is Friendship? Here are some friends spending time together.

What Is Friendship?

What is friendship to you? Friendship means different things to different people, and there are many different categories of friends. A quick Google search describes categories of anywhere from 4 to 14 different kinds! I think I’ll stick to the simplest list of 4 types: Acquaintances, Casual friends, Close friends, and Intimate or lifelong friends. Although each category has different expectations attached to them, it’s important to be able to recognize the behaviour of a true friend, and one who is not.

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Healthy Breakfast Tips

Healthy Breakfast Tips

Healthy breakfast tips made a huge difference for managing my Fibromyalgia. I was shocked to find out what a huge difference the food I ate made to my FM flareups. Here are my healthy breakfast tips to get the day off to a great start!

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Treat Eczema At Home

Treating Eczema At Home

Treating eczema from home can be quite successful when you use the right products. When my son developed an out-of-control rash, we were stunned as to what to do next. We weren’t sure what had caused the rash, so we tried a lot of different options before we found what worked. Here is how we got my son’s eczema under control.

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Bouncing Back From Burnout

Bouncing back from burnout is not an easy thing to do, but it is possible. After weeks of going full tilt, my body crashed and said enough!!! I’ve been paying the price for the past few days, and still trying to get back into the grove again. Here are some tips for becoming productive again after burnout strikes. You can…

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Knowing Your Purpose by helping others.

Knowing Your Purpose

Knowing your purpose can be something that many struggle with. The meaning of life has long been the subject of countless books, moves, and magazine articles. So how do you figure out what your purpose is before you hit 80? With some focused journaling and time with God, it’s not that hard to figure out. Here is how you can figure out your purpose, and start building the life of your dreams.

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Tips for the flu. Ice cubes made from water, Gatorade, and Ginger Tea, plus Nux Vomica

Tips For The Flu

Since you can last 3 weeks without food, but only 3 days without water, it is paramount to keep hydrated when you have the flu. Here are some tips to beating the flu.

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Panda and Cotton protecting each other.

What Love, Compassion, and Patience can do.

What can Love, Compassion, and Patience do? Love, compassion, and patience can do just about anything! Our beloved cats Panda and Cotton are great examples of this. They beat the odds of farm life, and have most likely outlived all of their litter mates. They are our joy and delight. Here is their story which I hope helps you see…

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