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No. We don’t plan to re-run 2020. However, repeating our Ten Tips for A Happy, Healthy Life flier, that originally posted on the first Monday of 2017, feels like a good way to keep us on track for the coming year. Let’s joyfully practice these Ten Tips in 2021. Share them with family and friends […]

On March 23, 2020, I re-started TrueToMyBody’s blog – twelve days after the COVID-19 national shutdown began. Many of us felt like the person lying face down in the cartoon, which was used in that first blog post; but 2020 changed us. Now we are strong, resilient, hopeful and focused on being a force for

Today’s blog post features the two submissions for our My Best Gift Ever contest. Both entries warm the heart…Please enjoy them. It happened a long time ago, but it remains a very fond memory. I was a lonely graduate student in Providence, R.I. My boyfriend (now my husband of 58 years!) surprised me by visiting

In regards to vehicles, boats or rodeo barrel competition “Turn on a dime” means the ability to execute really tight turns on a small circle. The phrase also can mean radical change of focus or switching to something new in an instant – which occasionally can be a useful life skill. Since this is a

Last week we had two Oops! Monday morning’s blog post describing the My BEST GIFT EVER Contest did not go out and the REPLY button on the mid-week re-send of that same post did not work. Hopefully, my tech specialist now has fixed those issues. Since most of us have fond memories of receiving our

Since this post is going out on Cyber Monday, it felt like a good idea to have a My Best Gift Ever contest for the most memorable and worthy present any of us can remember receiving. For example the best, and longest lasting gift given to me was the non-tangible “Love of Exercise” received while

I had surgery for a trigger finger this last Friday, leaving me, briefly, having to function with one hand. In googling images and stories of those who accomplish the most basic activities of daily living, as well as extraordinary athletic feats, without one or both hands, feet or limbs, the thought occurred that this Thanksgiving

Two TV interview sentences came to my attention yesterday: After playing this year’s Master’s Golf Tournament, Tiger Woods said “I didn’t commit to the wind” when describing the devastating result of earning 10 on the par-3 twelfth hole.* The other line was from MMA fighter Alex Perez who said, when asked about Winning the upcoming

Balance and pinning the tail on the donkey are not far removed from each other. We make do with two out of three physical attributes – vision, vestibular system (everything going on inside the inner ear) and proprioception* (awareness of movement and position) while having fun at the party. If we hear of a neighbor

Some of us may find ourselves “to the wall” with up and down emotions this 2020 Election Day week. Guidance for today’s post comes through the cover of Dr. Melissa Munro Boyd’s delightful children’s book B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings, available by clicking on this Amazon link.