Author: Stephanie, Naturally
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American Addiction
We have all wrestled with whether to give money to panhandlers at a red light. Often holding signs that proclaim the need for work or food, when offered work or food they say “just need some cash for gas now”. Do we assume they’re addicted to something? Maybe they’ve just latched on to a tax-free…
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Words For Your Younger Self
A phrase keeps repeating in my recent reads, thoughts and prayers> It’s ‘ancient paths’. Were we ever meant to walk these modernized roads? It seems the advances by science are making science more necessary to cure us of all the ails leaps in food manufacturing made. We must get back to things made by God.
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Smiling Sympathy
Grief is a part of life. We never fully heal from it, we just learn to live alongside it, in harmony. We must respect it’s power to induce tears. My recommendation – smile and hug the grieving! But resist the sweet, sympathetic tones please. There’s dopamine in it for you.
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Rainbow Bridges and Other Goodbyes
Love leads and when lives end, grief rushes in and tries to take its place. I’m on a journey to keep the love alive, move forward WITH the grief. It will come along too. I will learn to cohabitate with it.
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Cognition Killers
How many times a week, maybe daily, do you think I cannot get my thoughts straight or what’s the word I’m looking for? Then you talk to a coworker or friend and find they complain of the same! Lately, it seems everyone thinks this brain fog is real. It’s happening all the time in my…
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Obesity Is Fully Genetic. Full Stop.
The epitome of fake news is a marketing piece disguised as a news story, complete with interview of a highly degreed obesity physician. I’d argue obesity needs to be treated by a nutritionist and personal trainer.
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We all see the elephant, right?
In April of 2020, this awful dooming feeling wouldn’t go away. It was with me all the time, weighing like a dynamite packed vest. This wasn’t normal, healthy or in any way good for humanity. Locked down, our leaders were getting power drunk and closing businesses and forcing people into their homes. “Home” isn’t always…
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Gut Health. Poised for Hijack?
Gut health could be the key to mental health, plus immune function plus overall better wellness. It’s often overlooked and in jeopardy of having bigpHARMA hijack the means to a healthy gut! Take your own gut health seriously and find heaps of benefits in doing so.
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Wilderness Connection
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat,” Laura Ingalls Wilder Humans spend an extraordinary amount of time indoors, despite being innately, intrinsically linked to the great outdoors. Millions have learned to thrive in urban environments, though I can’t imagine how. It turns out, research studies tend to agree. Study after…
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Solo Soul Searching
It’s been two years and four months since I took a tent camping excursion into the Bankhead Forest, completely solo. It was just over a month into the nightmare that some called a ‘pandemic’, which continues on today, but the peace gained on that trip has long since faded. As I looked through a few…