Category: Health & Fitness
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The Uncomfortable Step to Healing You Likely Didn’t Consider
It was a series of uncomfortable steps in my healing after surgery, this reduction and eventual removal of the bandages protecting my wound.
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This Is How I Want to Age Well
It was the one rose that remained of the exquisite bouquet my husband had given me, but it was enough to impart the message.
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The Most Important Fabric of My Gym Life Is Made of Yarn
If you struggle with faithfulness to your own health and fitness, I’d recommend you find your own Connie. Or join our happy team. We’ve got enough yarn.
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Even a Purple Pinky Toe Can Teach You a Life Lesson
My purple toe reminds me that we need all our body parts healthy and whole and working — and we need to follow God’s instructions first and foremost.
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This Year’s Word Has the Power to Make Me Ask Difficult Questions
I have chosen “different” for my “Word of the Year.” As in, “How am I different because I choose to trust in God?” I ask questions; I seek Him for answers.
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What’s in Your ‘Book of Ailments’?
Sometimes I see beyond my husband’s superficial silliness to his real message — and God’s message. It’s well worth the insight!
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Guess What Happens If You Don’t Replace Bad Habits With New Ones?
Habits, like cats, inhabit our lives. They take whatever space we yield to them. The trick to keeping bad habits at bay? Fill the space with something else.
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‘I Love My Scar,’ This Breast Cancer Survivor Told Us
A young mother learns to abide in God and finds joy despite her journey through breast cancer, including chemo, a radical mastectomy, and radiation therapy.
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This Coach Got Better, Not Beaten by the Crash That Nearly Killed Him
Marion Chisholm Is on a Mission to Win at Sports and Life The first time I noticed him was in my early-morning step aerobics class. He had taken a space in the back and done the class without a step, which wouldn’t have gained my respect, except that he was using forearm crutches. Wow. He…
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What Can Yoga Do for You? This Story Might Inspire You
This 72-year-old says yoga’s focus on balance and alignment is healing and critical to her ability to function, especially as she ages.
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Pave Your Road to Success With God Intentions; Don’t Settle for Good
What we need are not “good” intentions but “God” intentions — and add our attention to those and to God Himself. Then we can succeed.
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How a Slick Yoga Mat Showed Me Value in Strengthening Little Muscles
What if we followed our instructor’s guidance, fully engaged our mind and core, and mustered our strength against opposing forces so nothing could move us?
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Is Multitasking Sapping Your Spiritual Strength?
It definitely affected mine I had been going about the business of writing all wrong, and it took a confrontation by God to set me straight. My conversation with Him went something like this: “Do you remember that you kept waking up earlier and earlier TO SPEND TIME WITH ME — and then, instead, you…
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Just Above the ‘Window to the Soul’ Is the Truth Teller
Your eyebrows are telling your secrets. Unfortunately, taming them so they don’t tell all requires time and talent and too much cash.
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When the Gym Reopened, I Was First in Line
The gym has reopened after the coronavirus shutdown, and I’ve returned. You aren’t there. I’m sorry not sorry you haven’t returned for the same reason you aren’t back.
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Why Put So Much Effort Into a Body That Is Wasting Away?
If you had to use a fragile clay pot to contain something precious, wouldn’t you take the utmost care with it?
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This is more disturbing than stepping in gum
I’ll give you a clue. It involves bare skin. You can call me “Sweet Cheeks.” Or “Sticky Buns.” But don’t hold my past against me. Even if it is recent. And memorable. My Tuesday at the gym started like any other. I hit the pool for some warm-up laps. Took a shower. Quickly changed into…
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How do you know when something is really broken?
Isn’t it possible for something to get worse in such tiny increments that I fail to recognize “worse” until it’s completely broken?
All Things Work Together 