Fitness

A Healthy Writer – Caring for Your Body Is Caring for Your Pen

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If I don’t care for my body, writing becomes much more difficult. The outside of the body always affects the inside. What happens to your body works its way into your heart and mind. And that means being a “healthy writer” involves more than intellectual vigor and creativity. It means more than reading widely and inspecting deeply. These things are important, but they focus on the inside. And healthy writers don’t just care for their insides; they care for their outsides. The inside and the outside are bound up together. Downplaying one is a disservice to the other. Or, if you want to think of it this way, caring for your body is caring for your pen. 

Spiritual Health and Fitness

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We give a lot of attention to physical health with constant headlines scaring us about cancer-causing agents and obesity among other ills. The “U.S. healthcare industry is massive” with
spending over $4 trillion in 2021 (that’s over 19 percent of all the goods and services produced in
the U.S.) and forecast to be over $6 trillion by 2028. 1 Emotional health is also on a lot minds due
to the alarming jump in irrational, violent, and criminal behavior since the Covid-19 pandemic
with over 90 percent of Americans say we were in a “mental health crisis”. 2 Yet, how many
people do you hear expressing concern over spiritual health?

Avoid These 3 Mistakes as A New Runner

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Have you ever brought up the idea of becoming a new runner to your friends or coworkers and they seemed repulsed? Negative conclusions drive people away from the amazing art form of running. “Gross,” they say, or “Why do you do that to yourself?” Maybe you have had that experience, or maybe you are that … Read more

Healthy Eating for Picky Kids

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Planning meals and cooking is time-consuming as is, but it becomes even harder when you have picky kids in the house. These picky eaters can be fussy about food because they’re naturally sensitive to particular tastes, textures, or smells. They may also learn this behavior from the adults around them. These tips will help you … Read more

How to Create a Healthy Lifestyle — From Fiction to Nonfiction

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As fiction writer I learn things about the real world during my research journey. One book’s research led me to steps for healthy living, secrets to create a healthy lifestyle, and a knowledge of blue zones. My journey begins when I enrolled in a healthy eating class at church, the instructor William Zahler, author of  … Read more