As you know–Father’s Day was a couple weekends ago. It seems like every time Mother’s Day rolls around–the commercials ramp up for expensive gifts, flowers, and daily reminders to not forget your Mom and let her know how much you appreciate her. As a Momma, I really love this and I enjoy feeling special. But…
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Becoming Whole Part 5: Spiritual Wellness
We made it to the finish line! Woo Hoo! I know it’s been a rather difficult journey of looking into ourselves and evaluating where we are in all of these areas of wellness and looking ahead at where we would like to be. I think it is fitting to end this series with Spiritual Wellness….
Becoming Whole Part 4: Emotional Wellness
We are nearing the end of our Wellness Wheel journey. I don’t know about you–but, I’m exhausted. As typical of me in reaching the month of February–I’m done with making goals, let alone sticking to them. But, I am committed to this whole notion of trying to live my life differently than I have been. …
Becoming Whole Part 3: Environmental Wellness
So far in our discussion about the Wellness Wheel we’ve covered Physical Wellness and Social Wellness. Now, it’s time for us to discuss Environmental Wellness: Environmental Wellness is the ability to recognize our own responsibility for the quality of the air, the water and the land the surrounds us. So what IS our responsibility as…
Becoming Whole Part 2: Social Wellness
In my last post we discussed Physical Wellness (you can read it here). This week, let’s circle around the Wellness Wheel clockwise and talk about Social Wellness. Social Wellness is the ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world. Oh boy. I won’t lie. This is probably one of the…
Becoming Whole Part 1: Physical Wellness
Last week I explained that this year I am hoping to focus on becoming whole–as a person. This is the Wellness Wheel that I am using and am hoping to outline specific goals in each of the 5 areas: To start things off–let’s begin with: Physical Wellness This is the month that everyone I…
Where’s your focus?
It’s always hard for me to write my first post of the year. I always try to imagine what anyone that happens upon it would be interested in reading: Are you wanting to start a new fitness regimen? I’ve got oodles of experience on this one. Diet plan? Ditto on this one too. Plus, I…
Tis the Season to hopefully save some money. Fa la la la la. La la la la.
The Christmas season is upon us and many of you, like me, have always spent this time of year scrambling around looking for gifts, spending huge amounts of money and hoping and praying that we can keep the debt beast at bay. I have a lot of weaknesses. A lot. But one that has zapped…
God changed my plans today
I love lists–I love making them, I love thinking about them, I love checking things off when I’ve completed them. It’s like an obsession for me. I have learned that having some sort of schedule is essential, because without one chaos ensues. So why is it so hard? Day after day, I make a plan,…
Inward Groanings and Outward Hope
Normally I am a very upbeat and positive person. But, lately I’ve been feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders and every day brings a fresh onslaught of things to be scared of, saddened by, and stuff that just angers me. Every time I scroll Facebook I read of traffic accidents that…