The gap between beneficial stress and harmful stress is small . This image always reminds me how the transition to harmful stress affects my health and well-being pretty drastically. One of the ways I stay idle in the optimal performance zone is through exercise.
I have been on fb from almost the very beginning. According to the movie, 8 years years. Below is my movie. It reminded me of some great moments and just how important my fb friends have supported me over the years AND especially in the last 2 years. Post by Michelle Eble.
Since 2003, I have served on ECU’s Institutional Review Board as a non-scientist. These boards have to have certain types of members on the committee. Physicians, nurses, scientists, community members, and at least one non-scientist. In fact for a while, I was the only non-scientist, and if I was late, they couldn’t begin until I […]
A favorite quote and reminder.
I have been working on several longer posts over the last couple of days, and tomorrow, we’ll have a snow day, so I’m hoping to get ahead. If you’ve not watched the following video, I highly recommend it. Brene Brown is amazing, and she’s written some fabulous books. I’ll be writing more about them as […]
This is my the desk in my office. It’s one of the first things students, colleagues, and visitors see when they walk in and especially if they sit down to meet with me. I never see it when I sit at my desk because it is turned outward. I was kinda out-of-sorts yesterday because my […]
When I began my journey to a more healthy lifestyle, I set 3 eating goals a day, and I focused on additive behaviors rather than deprivation behaviors. I needed to focus on what I was going to do, not what I wasn’t going to do. (That hadn’t worked, so I wasn’t confident it would work […]
I read a quote by MLK this morning that I don’t remember ever seeing before. I’m sure I’ve seen it, but it certainly didn’t resonant in the past the way it did with me this morning. “An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to […]
I’ve had the following image on my iphone for over two years. Every time I push the home button, I see it. If it’s one thing I’m gonna look at over and over again during the day, it’s whatever image that I choose for my lock screen. I think I’m ready to change it to […]