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Forty is fabulous! After years of putting others first, I have finally grasped the concept that my life belongs to me. As a young woman, I lived for the approval of others. If I was just pretty enough or did enough for others, I thought, the whole world would like and accept me. Now I know that I no longer need to impress the whole world; I just need to impress me. I still love being...

Our body is an investment, so we must fuel it properly. What is 'proper'? Every day, at least 51% raw foods. Try to stay away from processed foods, bleached flours, foods sweetened with non-food sweeteners, and 'natural' flavorings/enhancers. Everything in moderacy. I work to help people fix their ailments with the use of what was has been on this planet for 100's of thousands, and millions of...

There is a phenomenon with human beings, human behavior if you will, that has always intrigued me. It is a near universal willingness to come to the aid of others, very often strangers, who have been in accidents or are in the midst of some kind of disaster. How often do we read about complete strangers putting their own life in jeopardy to rescue others. Someone will rush into a burning...

(My apologies to the readers of Growing Bolder's Blog, but I had to post this second entry - musing - today. If you read it, you will understand why.) I am writing this on September 17, 2011. I mention this because today would have been my parent’s 81st anniversary. I have a wedding picture of them taken on this day on 1930. Although they weren’t smiling in the picture, I suspect...

A lot of what I thought was aging (feeling tired, stiffness, headaches, joint pain and depression) was nothing of the sort. Instead, I was suffering from surplus body fat and sustained inactivity. Why, if the refrigerator hadn’t been 20 feet from the sofa, I wouldn’t have gotten any exercise at all. Along comes Dr. Henry S. Lodge who confirms in his book, Younger...