You may have noticed that I haven’t been writing or posting very much lately. Some of this is intentional, since I’ve been taking time to focus on my health. I am determined to overcome the illness I’m dealing with. I have been learning a lot of helpful information and will continue to do so.

The other reason is, with all the changes taking place in my life, I have not had a clear idea of what I want to do next. I have been, to a degree, stuck.

I know, from past experience, that when you don’t know what to do either do nothing until you have more clarity or, as is my case at the moment, do what feels like the next step.

Since whatever I do will be within the personal development industry, the best place for me to start is by writing about what’s going on in my own life.

I’ve learned in my two-plus decades as a writer is, that if I’m dealing with a challenge personally, chances are a number of other people are experiencing something similar.

With so many people, especially in the U.S., going through a health challenge either themselves or with a family member, I want to share my thoughts and suggestions about what getting a serious diagnosis can do to a person.

The biggest thing that happens, and fortunately something I know a bit about, is not letting depression take hold.

In addition to the impact the diagnosis has, we have the fact that most of the drugs that are treating a persons illness list depression as a side-effect.

Caution: If you feel you or a family member are clinically depressed, please get professional help.

If your moods are simply feeling down and not clinically depressed, here are some things I’ve found helpful:

• Focus on what is working and what’s going right.

• Stay appreciative for what you have and the life you’re enjoying.

• Clean up your diet. Foods like sugar and gluten can cause mood swings and contribute to feeling depressed.

• Commiserate with people in similar situations. Join a support group either live or on Facebook.

• Most medical treatment centers have relationships with support groups for every condition.

• Never give up! Continue to look for answers and information your can use.

• Hydrate – drink lots of pure water daily.

• Take a multi-modality approach.

Taking a multi-modality approach is my personal recommendation and is not meant as medical advice. I’m simply sharing with you some of what I’m personally doing to maintain and regain my health.

Putting all your eggs in one basket

Something that saddens me is when I see people relying on a single treatment, hanging all their hopes on it. Personally, I’m not putting responsibility for my life in anyone’s hands but my own.

That said, I am, of course, receiving medical treatment. However I’m also adding several modalities to support that and I’ve put together a “Health Team” of different disciplines to cover all bases.

I’ve created a Treatment Pie with a three pronged approach:

Traditional medicine – I am not willing to put my life at risk by ignoring what’s available with main stream medicine.

Holistic Medicine – I’ve made a hobby of learning about holistic health for many years and am working with several holistic professionals. I’ll go into that way in more detail in a future post.

Energy medicine – This is a recent addition to my health arsenal. Though I’ve been familiar with a variety of energy healing modalities for many years I had been overlooking this extremely powerful approach to health until recently, after having read several books on the subject.

I’ll be commenting more about these books in future posts, however in the meantime, they are:

Mind to Matter  by Dawson Church

You Are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Biology of Belief  by Dr. Bruce Lipton

I’ve increased my self-care and am taking advantage of several of the services available through my local wellness spa.

In future posts I’ll share some of the modalities I’ve been experiencing and what they’re doing. In the meantime, I welcome your, thoughts and questions.

Please share this with anyone you feel will be helped by this information. And please take the time to appreciate the people and all the good in your life.

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The animal kingdom lost a champion this Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Dr. Charles “Tom” Schenck was our dear friend and veterinarian for more than twenty years.

Interestingly, we first learned about Tom in the Pet forum on Compuserve, prior to the Internet. Our cat, Ming, had been diagnosed with kidney failure and the Vet we were going to wanted to put him down.

Obviously this devastated us both, especially Georgia, who had Ming since he was a kitten.

Having been active online since 1989, I immediately went looking for help in the Pet forum. Someone there suggested we contact Dr. Schenck at Edgebrook Veterinary Clinic in NJ.

Tom practiced a combination of Holistic and Traditional medicine, along with Acupuncture. He treated Ming and instructed us on how to administer fluids to help his kidneys. Ming was with us for another five years before his passing.

To say that Tom was a big part of our life is an understatement. We’ve remained friends to this day and he was Doctor to our cats Ming, Pasha, Smokey, Frosty, and Bentley their entire lives.

Tom was a dedicated Healer who treated and saved what must be thousands of animals throughout his fifty-two year career. He worked until he was longer physically able.

He will be missed by anyone who had the privilege to know him.

May God bless and keep you Tom.

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As adults, we have been conditioned to limit our dreams and desires. We’ve learned, over time, to settle for whatever we get.

Children, on the other hand, have no trouble dreaming and are remarkably successful at manifesting what they want.

Learn to take charge of your destiny and create the life you were born to live by following these simple steps

What do you want?

Write down everything you can think of that you want to do, be, have, and contribute.

Don’t edit. Just write it all down.

Let your mind run wild. Pretend you’re a child again.

There are no limits.

We’ll come back to this list in a future post, but for right now just complete this simple exercise.

This step alone greatly increases your likelihood of your success.

If you were to ask 1998 Olympic Gold Medal winner and Sportscaster, Tara Lipinski, how she was able to win the gold medal at the age of fourteen, she would tell you how she (Read more at Thrive Global)

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