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You Are Not Your Enemy

There was a long post on Facebook a while ago that has been resonating with me ever since. Not necessarily about the post itself, but the context of the original subject. The originator spurred great debate by bringing up the “Fit Mom” discussion that was rampant a few years ago. I am not going to go into detail about this issue here because, to be frank, I grew sick of hearing about it. I have…

All Sizzle and No Steak

The more I have gotten into blogging and podcasting the more I see instances of so-called “fitness experts” hawking either their own products or something they are paid to sell, no matter what the underlying healthiness of said product is, and it is getting ridiculous. I actually saw a post once on a healthy (at least it was advertised this way) eating site titled “recipe of the day” … It was…

How to Handle Chronic Stress and Cortisol

Stress can be a hard thing to describe to people, especially if they are one of the few that either (a) handles stress well, or (b) has very little stress in their life. Most people can do neither, and those that are (b) are known as psychopaths. We ALL have stress in our life. To say we don’t would be, as they say, these days, #FakeNews. Stress is a silent killer. It causes all kinds of…

How to Harness the Power of Positive Thinking

In statistics, regression toward (or to) the mean is the phenomenon that if a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to the average on its second measurement—and, paradoxically, if it is extreme on its second measurement, it will tend to have been closer to the average on its first. When interpreting data, regression toward the mean must be…

Much like Alex felt when being made to watch violence at the same time as he was being made sick, the end result is that you are who you are, and you will adapt to accept any changes made to you in order to meet the true inner self.

“Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?” As I am working through continued motivation issues, lines from my favorite movie keep popping up in my head. The mere fact that “A Clockwork Orange” is my all-time favorite movie tells you more about my psyche than you really want to know and should probably warn you against posts…