Blogs About "health"

The 12th Scrubs in the City raised more than 400,000 for the new Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning at SickKids as over 800 guests “rocked the block” for their Block Party held at Evergreen Brick...

As a part of my empowerment plan! Gosh that sound powerful........ I am releasing an app on how to check yourself, I would love to have some of you ladies help me with this in the far flung countries that 85 Broads has spread.

If you would like to translate the English version into your language and help women all over the world learn how to check themselves properly and stay safe...

The first time I visited a labor and delivery ward in Tanzania, I was six weeks pregnant.  Even though I knew intellectually that my birth experience would be nothing like what I was watching, I could only react emotionally to the scene around me.  So many women crowded onto so few beds in a wide-open labor room.  Laboring skin to skin with other mothers-to-be, with spouses and other support left to...

When I was in college and working on my undergraduate degree, each day was like swimming upstream. I had a lot of anxiety surrounding my studying and test taking. This anxiety came with good reason— I wasn’t very good at it.  The information went in my brain and then quickly left.  When I finally did take a test, I often felt that the questions on the test looked foreign compared to...

My husband insists on putting the thermostat down as low as possible in the summer AND the winter.  In the summer, he wants the rooms as chilly as possible and in the winter, he’s comfortable in a cool room. I’m the polar opposite of him.  In the winter, I’m constantly freezing and want the heat up as high as possible.  In the summer, I’m constantly freezing in air conditioning and don’t...

Have you ever heard of TRX exercise training? If you haven’t, let me try to explain what it’s all about.  It’s suspension training that uses your own bodyweight to perform hundreds of exercises.  At times you use your arms to pull up and out, and at other times, you use your legs. Let me tell you— after one class, every muscle in your body is exhausted.  This is actually what I...

 A couple of weeks ago, we took our annual trip to Ann Arbor to move our son into his campus apartment. Before we left to go back home, we ate lunch at one of our favorite restaurants. As I walked in, there were a number of people forming a line to put their name on the waiting list for a table.  I was third in line when suddenly, this women pushed...

My week started by attending a funeral on Monday.  I’m sure you’d agree that going to funerals are not a favorite thing for anyone to do in life. However, they’re definitely part of life and hard to avoid, the older you get.  The experience at the beginning of the week encouraged me to contemplate life- how quickly life can go by without the chance to chase your dreams.

By Wednesday, I attended...

Have you ever given thought to the feeling you leave behind, after you’ve spent time with someone?

Think about what Maya Angelou said so eloquently, “ I learned that people will forget what you said, will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”.

Last year, I was having lunch at a small deli with my husband.  I was enjoying my time when I noticed two women...

Yes, you CAN! Let me tell you about an amazing experience at a workshop I went to last Friday to learn a technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).

EFT (sometimes known as “Tapping”) involves tapping on a series of acupuncture meridian points on the face and body while repeating certain phrases to clear negative emotions and painful sensations. Tapping in this structured way helps to clear energy...