See the Good in Everything
Category: fitness
BENEFITS OF ANTIOXIDANTS FOR TBI
By definition, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive chemical species containing oxygen. They are a formed under normal conditions in the body as byproducts of cellular respiration. Additionally, ROS levels in the body are elevated in response to a number of environmental and pathological factors, to name a few: Stress Poor diet Cigarette smoke Air […]
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My Journey So Far – My Recovery After Being Being Shot in the Head
Life Transformation – The Monomyth
I had a physical therapy appointment one morning and my therapist told me, “Everything that me, and all of your other therapists, are telling you will appear as a lot of random information coming in from different directions, however, it will all come together and make sense someday.” As my therapist was trying to teach […]
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Life Transformation
Today somebody asked me, “How do you find the strength to keep pushing forward? You have improved so much from where you started, and I know a lot of people would have given up in your situation. I am just in awe of your story, and I want to know how you became so determined.” […]
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Webinar Poll
THIS IS FOR MY BUSINESS CLASS, PLEASE TAKE MY POLL. Imagine if I were to host a webinar about the turning points in our our lives that change life as we know it forever. I will share my story about being robbed at gunpoint, shot in the head, becoming paralyzed, losing my dogs, home, everything […]
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Be Kind to Yourself
My first blog post that I ever wrote, posted below, was called, “Be Kind” and I thought it was worth revisiting. Many of us live in a fast paced society where we do not have enough time to care for ourselves, some of us have a lifestyle where we have to much free time on […]
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Returning to College
After the shooting incident I was hospitalized for seven months and a speech therapist would come into my hospital room and repeat three words to me. Blue, bed, sock. They asked me to repeat them back, but my brain simply would not allow me to do so. No matter how hard I tried, I could […]
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Becoming your Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” In life you find what you seek and if you pursue excuses for your failures, or seek reasons for why you cannot succeed, you will never find solutions to the challenges that are holding you back. […]
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Do Not Be a Sheep
I was once in a critical thinking course, mandatory per my communication major and the professor had the students of the class to think about a time when we were manipulated by others due to our lack of critical thinking skills. My professor instructed the class to first read an article, in the paragraph below, […]
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Nolan McDonnell 