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Peering into the Future: My Senior Well-being Self
One of the very first things I did when I got laid off a couple of months ago was to dive into some of the morning group fitness classes at the Glens Falls YMCA that I would not usually be able to attend due to work. One thing my partner and I noticed when we…
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Meeting Your Body Where It’s At: Managing Acute Pain with Well-being
I’ve had a great time writing my recent “For the Love of” posts. They covered the gamut of my various well-being passions, including physical activity and dance. Now I’d like to chat about my experience with acute pain, my most recent experience with it, and how it affected my physical and mental well-being. I’ve gained…
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For the Love of Dancing
If you’ve been following my blog of late, you’ll see I am on a kick to pay homage to the various well-being activities that have been a big part of my life, all under the Bend Burn Breathe (B3) ethos. Most recently, I’ve mused about my love of meditation and mindfulness, which falls under “bend,”…
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Breathe into It: Interests, Hobbies, and Passions
My latest “For the Love of” posts have focused on the first two of the three Bend Burn Breath tenets. Before I share more “For the Love of” posts, I want to chat more about the third tenet of the Bend Burn Breathe well-being ethos. “Breathe” is all about living more creatively and playfully, and…
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For the Love of Meditation and Mindfulness
I have so enjoyed writing my latest “For the Love of” series, where I share my long-term fitness passions of yoga, weight training, and spinning; I have decided to continue my journey of odes to other areas that make up my Bend Burn Breathe well-being universe (you can see that vision laid on on my…
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For the Love of Spinning
This post is part three of my three-part series based on the original fitness-inspired “Bend Burn Breathe” ethos – all about my passion for yoga (bend/flexibility), weight training (burn/strength training), and spinning (breathe/cardio). Together they make up what I like to call the three-legged fitness stool. You can catch up by reading my two previous…
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For the Love of Weight Training
Just after I posted my latest blog post, For the Love of Yoga, it dawned on me that it would be fun to continue to write about my two other fitness passions that formed the original basis of the “Bend Burn Breathe” ethos. “Bend Burn Breathe” was born out of my long-standing love affair with yoga,…
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For the Love of Yoga
If you just read my last post, “Navigating a Lay-off with Well-being: The Three “E’s,” you’ll know that I am managing a recent (and unexpected) lay-off. As I enter week three of my journey, I am finding an overwhelming sense of gratitude and appreciation for yoga in all its forms. I am returning to it…
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Navigating a Lay-off with Well-being: The Three “E’s”
Last week, I was unexpectedly laid off. My position had been eliminated. It was the first day back from a lovely week-long vacation and the last thing that I expected. After my initial disbelief, I went into stress-default mode and began what was a bit of an obsessive job search to see what the job…