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
My illness started out like any other intestinal virus, not pleasant but certainly not serious. My symptoms abated around 2 am. Later that morning, I ran a low-grade fever and felt like a wrung-out dishrag, my usual modus operandi after a stomach bug. However, as the day wore on, my fever rose, and the stomach … Read more
The effects of stress on my body lingered for months. Red, painful hives erupted beneath the top layer of skin on my hands and arms; visible but unreachable. Finally, after enduring weeks of itching and peeling skin, medication alleviated some of the discomfort. Perhaps your child or teen wrestles with anxiety. Or, in our post-pandemic … Read more
When we hear our physician speak the words “healthy lifestyle,” our thoughts may turn to the gym, to our refrigerator, or a bulging waistline. What should we give up? What can we keep? How can we change? But what does a healthy lifestyle really mean? Finding nourishing choices and achieving balance in our lives is … Read more
It is God’s intent that we prosper and be healthy as our souls prosper (3 John 2). I believe that a healthy lifestyle is a choice. Of course, because we live in a broken world, we are subject to that world because of sin and free will, but wisdom and the Holy Spirit (as He … Read more