Did you know that Americans are sick and getting sicker? In medicine we have all the latest technology and pharmaceuticals. We have highly trained specialists and well equipped medical centers. We have access to all the latest and greatest in medicine but yet we are becoming more and more unhealthy. Why is that? What is…

When someone is sick, worrying about the patient is always natural. But what about the caregiver? I believe the caregiver has the harder job. Now, I know being sick is never a walk in the park. I have been on both sides of that situation. The people in my life were very attentive to my…

 False   Evidence   Appearing   Real What holds you back? Are you afraid of failure? How about success? Maybe rejection? Are you living your dreams? Or are you working at a job you don’t care much about or even dread going to every day? We all have something we’re afraid of; something that keeps us from doing…

What is a balanced life really? We’ve all heard of work/life balance but few have been able to really achieve it, until they no longer have to work. We’ve heard of a balanced diet but there are many people who aren’t really sure how to achieve that either. You can balance your checkbook, look at…

As I mentioned earlier in the week, we lost my dear cousin Kathy to pulmonary hypertension. Today we laid her to rest. It was a very sad day for our family. We listened to our cousin John talk about what it was like growing up with Kathy from the perspective of her younger brother. It…

Sometimes I think it’s important to repeat information I have shared before because I think it’s something that we all need to understand. This is one of those posts. I recently read yet another article about how the sugar industry paid for research to implicate dietary fat, rather than sugar, as the major contributing factor…

Did you ever just get up in the morning and feel like things just might not go well? I rarely wake up feeling like that but today I did. I was just “off”. It’s nothing I could pinpoint but it was just that feeling. First, I slept longer than I wanted to. I woke up…

Could inflammation be causing you to lose your motivation to move forward in your life? According to this article, that could very well be the case. If you have recently been ill and can’t seem to get your mojo back, it could be due to low grade inflammation still in your body. Our bodies are…