All Entries in the "Health and Fitness" Category
Your breasts or your life!
This post has questions and a few tips on that. I am not a doctor. (Photo Dr. Michele Y. Halyard, Mayo Clinic) I am a cancer conqueror – a term I prefer over survivor. I’m wondering whether women especially Black/African American women are choosing not to be treated, diagnosed, or have a mammogram, change life styles, and do other things to take care of themselves and their bodies out of their fear, family history, cultural beliefs about hospitals, or myths about the Big C… Tips include creative expression and more.
“The most inspirational event I’ve ever attended.”
“The most inspirational event I’ve ever attended.” That’s what was said about this year’s Positively Powerful Women Awards Luncheon. It’s a different sort of luncheon. And like all things new, started with a dream. With the support of personal and corporate friends who believed in it too, this year’s Awards Luncheon inspired, empowered, entertained, and educated a filled to capacity audience at the Ritz-Carlton Phoenix. It began when [...]
The Winner’s Summit: All that and more.
Enthusiasm. Passion. Engaged. Informative. Caring. Business-like. Connecting the dots. Collaborative. Customer service. Use of social media. These and many more accolades go to the event producers and planners who get it right. As a speaker, I experienced this most recently at The Winner’s Summit produced by Deborah Hardnett. The audience was prep’d and ready for my message “Transformation’s In The [...]
Health: Eat to Live Long, Conquer & Prosper!
Okay I admit it, I thought that I was relatively well-educated. That is until I got breast cancer. Bang! (This post is for you men too.) My ignorance on proper eating was horrific. Maybe you too grew up like I did: loving fried foods, fruits…sometimes, the c-foods for desert always - cakes, candies, cookies, chocolate, pies [...]
Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust
If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… [...]
Respectful Aging LGBT Services
Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation: Use the client’s terms: [...]
When it comes to our health, are we poorly informed?
Is it fair to say that all of us would rather be healthy and avoid illness? Are we really lazy and not wanting to do the type of research necessary to fully understand the options that are available to us? Could I be eating better then I am, excising more? This much I know is [...]
London National Gallery-Aging Creatively Project
There is Positive and Continuous work done to learn more about how seemingly passive activities may result in providing our aging populations with ways to manage there wellness better. The London National Gallery has a program part of which is directed towards people who have suffered a stroke. Ageing Creatively is a programme of practical [...]
Positively Healthier – Something to Think About
One of the ironies of the hunger in the United States, unlike some other countries, there is no shortage of food, just an abundance of waste. Good food (our interpretation) is overpriced, food that is said to be not good for us, foods loaded with salts, sugar and fats, are under priced. So an inquisitive person might extrapolate from all of this, let’s get healthier/nourishing food to the people who need it
Not Always in our Best Interest
There are some things that we are pretty sure of, things that we know work and are are good for us. Yet we go out of our way to support efforts that are clearly not good and that serve to undermine what it is that we know will work. We continue to promote foods that [...]
