Prevention of Early or Returning Breast Cancer
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
– Benjamin Franklin
This time of year when I see professional football team players wearing pink, I feel women aren’t getting the whole message. Our focus on breast cancer awareness needs to broaden to include breast cancer prevention. It’s not just about finding cancer; it’s about preventing cancer. Both strategies are essential for saving lives. If you want to learn about and possibly support organizations that are investigating causes and prevention of breast cancer, go to zerobreastcancer.org
Read MoreChanging Perspectives to Honor a Promise
A Promise Made
We had made a promise to my 20 year old daughter that I didn’t want to keep. Actually my plan was that my husband, David would make the promise happen, but due to bad ankle, he was on the bench for this one. The promise was to find an apartment in NYC for Gretta’s junior year in college. We had made the deal based on two conditions; she would find a suitable roommate and get good grades. Her best friend in NYC, McKenna was more than a suitable roommate and she made the dean’s list both semesters last year. It was clear I had to honor the deal.
Moving through a Life Transition
Life has a way of bringing you back to places that you thought that you had left for good. William Bridges author of The Way of Transition.
Moving Your Sugar Battleground
Picking your battleground. For years, I fought the sugar battle in my kitchen and pantry especially after dinner. Like a hound dog with an exquisite nose, I found myself snooping for sugar in my refrigerator, kitchen and pantry in the evening. After years of fighting that battle at home, I moved the battleground to the grocery store. If I don’t have sugared drinks, cookies, ice cream, candy, pies or cake in my house, I can’t drink or eat it. So it really means, that I can’t buy it at the store anymore. If you don’t buy it, you are committing to a big positive choice about sugar.
Weighing In
When actively dieting, a weigh in is risky business especially if the number stays the same or goes up. Suddenly a good day is a bad day, a bad number sending us to a dark place full of frustration. Giving your scale that much judging power about your efforts is unhealthy and inaccurate for a number of reasons.
The number on your scale is only one small indicator of your success with weight management. Your number on one day is not an overall indicator of how your weight control efforts are progressing. When it stays the same or goes up, you need to consider other factors and give the number a better context.
Read MoreComfort Always: The Animal Factor
Many of my clients work in high-pressure jobs full of relentless multi-tasking and never ending deadlines. Others are chronically ill and struggle to navigate their “new normal” or a worsening prognosis. In both instances, stress undermines their quality of life. This is why I frequently do stress inventories with clients to identify their current top stressors to determine which ones can be modified and a plan to do that. What I have found time and again is that some of the most powerful and sustainable de-stressing occurs with clients who are connected to animals.
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