An expert on caring for both children and aging parents.
She has been a delegate to the last two White Conferences...
Motivational Speaker, Author and Personal Power Expert
DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker and Personal Power...
Tweet Monday’s show was all about taking control of our brain and using four steps – relabeling, reframing, refocusing, and revaluing – to change our habits and end unhealthy thinking. One of the best ways to do this is to catch yourself thinking a negative thought and immediately change it to a positive thought. As [...]
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Category Archives: Take Away
Monday’s Take Away: Turn the Negatives into Positives
Monday’s Take Away: Shift Happens
Tweet Shift happens. Change happens. In your own life, it’s possible that a lot of change has taken place. For example, many people take a job or make a career choice out of need. In a desperate financial time, their “bridge job” becomes their career. They intended to only stay with this particular company for [...]
Read MoreMonday’s Take Away: Heart Disease Risk and Prevention
Tweet Dr. Lori Mosca shared a great deal of valuable information with us on Monday about the risks factors for and prevention of heart disease. Because heart disease is so prevalent and is 90 percent preventable, there are many “Take Aways” that can help us be better prepared and knowledgeable should heart disease become an [...]
Read MoreMonday’s Take Away: Take Those Meds!
Tweet When it comes to chronic pain, physicians often prescribe pain medication and it becomes the family caregiver’s decision whether or not to give the medication to the loved one in pain. Many times, the family caregiver opts against filling the prescription and following “doctor’s orders.” There can be many reasons for this, but one [...]
Read MoreMonday’s Take Away: Don’t Wait!
Tweet Oftentimes we develop ailments or health concerns, but instead of seeing a physician, we make excuses for our symptoms or deny them all together. By avoiding or ignoring our health situation, we could be making it worse! Our health care providers exist to examine our condition and help catch health issues before they turn [...]
Read MoreMonday’s Take Away: There Are No Bad Children
Tweet There are no bad kids. Children do not intend to be bad with their behavior; they’re just trying to understand their environment and their limits. Viewing a child’s actions in this way enables parents to look at ways to help them develop boundaries and act within them. There are three steps to discipline, but [...]
Read MoreMonday’s Take Away – Create Special Moments
Tweet As we listened to Jolene Brackey share ways to enhance moments with a loved one with Alzheimer’s and create moments of joy, several things stand out as being ultimately important when relating to a friend of family member with the disease. You cannot control the disease; you can only control your reaction to it. [...]
Read MoreDr. Merle’s Take Away – Rebuilding the Community
Tweet We seem to have come to a strange definition of the roles and responsibilities of the adults in the village. When I was growing up there seem to be eyes everywhere. If I did something wrong, by the time I got home somehow or other my mother already knew what I had done. I [...]
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