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Ladies: No One Is Ever Too Young For a Heart Attack

Heart disease, contrary to popular opinion, is not a condition confined to elderly, and chain-smoking males. Seemingly healthy women who wear pink ribbons are also surprisingly in the demographic. Heart attacks are not just happening in nursing homes. Heart attacks are happening to the women you see at your PTA meetings, favorite lunch spots, and playgroups. In fact, heart disease is the number-one killer of women in the United States: The American Heart Association predicts that 365,000 women will have heart attacks this year, and, for those of us under 50, women’s heart attacks are twice as likely as men’s to be fatal. For chest cancer, a far more publicized illness, the latest figures from the American Cancer Society show that approximately 255,000 women will be diagnosed in that same twelve-month period. Would you be surprised to hear that cardiovascular disease kills more women over 25 than all cancers combined? Of course, the good news is there are specific actions that you ca...

5 Amazing Lessons You Must Learn From Bad Break Ups

I know one way or the other We have all had that one relationship that knocks the wind out of us. The things you thought you knew about love become all mirage in your mind because you are blinded by hurt. Bad breakups are emotionally draining. With it comes resentment and sometimes outright anger. The thing about a bad breakup is the more emphasis you put on the other person’s fault, the longer it takes for you to get over it and put the past behind. There are five powerful lessons that a bad breakup will teach you once you stop romanticizing the relationship: 1. Love is not an event. It’s a process Many relationships come to a bitter end because someone’s feelings changed. As great as it may sound, love isn’t a feeling you get when you are around that person. Love is a choice. From those choices come deliberate actions. You invest time learning about them and give yourself a chance to like the person you are dealing with. From that feeling of like grows love. You can’t rush into so...