Does it have to be either/ or? Okay gentlemen, help me understand this: I heard 11 different advertisements for Erectile Dysfunction solutions over a span of 3 commercial breaks! This one local radio station had 11 ED ads within three commercial breaks!?! Let’s put this in perspective: The average commercial break is 3.5 minutes andContinue reading “Surgery vs Food…”
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Honoring Henrietta Lacks
Happy Black History Month! NPR released an article where I pulled this statement, “This year’s theme, Black Health and Wellness, pays homage to medical scholars and health care providers. The theme is especially timely as we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected minority communities and placed unique burdens on Black health careContinue reading “Honoring Henrietta Lacks”
Nourish Your Soul
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/group-of-high-schoolers-step-up-during-volunteer-emt-shortage-in-sackets-harbor-new-york/ Over these past few years, it has been challenging to find news that warms the heart. I was so excited to see this news clip about teenagers stepping up to the plate to help their community. Sackets Harbor Volunteer EMS Department lost many of its volunteers during the pandemic. These teens decided to addressContinue reading “Nourish Your Soul”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 6
Week 6: Practice Pull out your coping techniques! Today is the day we preserve the space to fine-tune the tools we have identified to combat our triggers. Now before you brush off the notion of practicing, remember: muscle memory is crucial for executing anything effectively, and in order to do that, you need to haveContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 6”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 6
Week 6: Mind Mapping You have made it to week 6; way to go! You now have a better understanding of your health challenge. You can define what your challenge is and have identified triggers. Now it is time to come up with coping techniques to combat your health challenge. Let’s face it; very fewContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 6”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 5
Week 5: readjust Happy Friday Wing Woman Crew! Did you revise your health challenge action step? If so, how’s it going? Keep performing your action step daily and continue to collect data on all the what, when, who, where, and how of it. It is not essential to know the why behind our actions butContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 5”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 5
Week 5: Looking At Your Observations You made it to Week 5! Congratulations. I’m so excited about your commitment to your health! It may not seem like much but, you have done an excellent job completing your one action step daily and collecting the data. Our unhealthy habits don’t form overnight; we can’t expect toContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 5”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 4
Week 4: Where Welcome to Week 4 and congrats on your efforts towards addressing your health challenge! Full transparency: December has kicked my butt! But I am hanging in there with the Holiday Health Challenge. How has your health challenge been going? Last week we started to look at the why behind why you haveContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 4”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 3
Week Three: “when” How did your health challenge go today? Yesterday you took a look at the “what” of your challenge. Today, assess the “when”. When does your health challenge appear: does it come at a certain time every day? Does it happen before or after a particular activity? Does it only occur on aContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 3”
Holiday Health Challenge Week 3
Week 3: Take Pause You made it to Week 3! Congrats! This week we need to unpack what happened when you implemented your action step during Week 2. We are going to continue with our action step throughout this week, but we are going to pause to reflect on what you discovered last week: whatContinue reading “Holiday Health Challenge Week 3”
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