Welcome to the New Year! Sales of all the things we need to live a healthy life replace the past month’s parade of holiday sales. Helping people achieve their New Year Resolutions is big business….
Browsing Category Life vision
Evaluating my wellness vision; a year later
As 2011 comes to an end, I am evaluating my wellness vision. In late 2010, a fellow weight loss surgery buddy was talking about building his personal wellness vision. It intrigued me. I didn’t know…
Temptations, Tis the season!
Temptation. When I hear that word, I think of an evangelist preaching at a big tent revival on the perils of falling prey to the temptations of sex, liquor and sinful living. The reality is…
Shedding Negativity
It is Thanksgiving week and last night I was fortunate to hear a very motivational speaker at my local weight loss surgery support group. The guest speaker is a breast cancer survivor who told her…
Courage and Mastery of Fear
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”—Mark Twain I particularly like the above Mark Twain quote about fear. The most common quotation used when talking about fear is “Only Thing…
Is it time for a Time to Heal for bariatric patients?
This past week I came across two excellent blog posts by Jone’ Carpenter, a cancer survivor. In the posts, the blogger spoke of her life after a summer 2010 diagnosis of breast cancer and her…
What a difference six years makes
Six years ago I lay in an emergency room losing consciousness surrounded by nurses and doctors with alarms going crazy. I had experienced a mild heart attack and severely reacted to a nitroglycerin injection. This…
Three Flavors of Networking and the Weight Loss Community
Networking is hot today. It has moved way beyond idle chat and trading business cards at cocktail hours. The advent of social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter has opened new networking venues. Networking…