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Health and fitness begin in your mind. Can you eat better? Can you exercise 3 – 5 times a week? Can you give your own body the love you’d like to shower on a partner? Health is your number one commodity as you get older. Stay healthy by taking little steps towards a better, stronger, you.

Fitness and health are the currency of growing old. Let’s do it with intention. Don’t hope to catch up later, get on a health kick, eat better, sleep better, love better. Your fitness and health are the most important things in your life. (Maybe after mental health, in my case.)

Finding the Happy Side of Difficult Divorce Street – FLIP IT

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:October 1, 2013
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Health and Fitness Joy Money Parenting Self-care Single-Dad
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There is no time like the present to flip your anger into absurd, cackling, fake laughter. It's a known fact that your physical body doesn't really know the difference between real laughter and fake laughter. So if you give a big ol' Pee Wee Herman laugh, your body really thinks you are laughing. The endorphins and physical joy comes back into your system, fires up the happy side of your brain, and can bring you part of the way back to center.

I Love You, Dad

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:September 25, 2013
Post category:Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness Married Life Parenting Spirituality
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And at that moment, I also felt the joy of my father's love upon me. He might have left the planet 15 years ago, but his love is still within me. And each time I can really hear and connect with my own kids, my heart lights up with a little bit more healing of my 5-year-old self, my wounded little boy.

A Return to Wholeness After Divorce

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:September 21, 2013
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Health and Fitness humans of divorce Married Life Money Parenting Relationships Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality
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In divorce, when you lose everything, what you still have is your kids. And while you are deep into the recovery of your own feelings, paying attention and parenting from a place of wholeness is critical.