The Circle of Life

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Dorothy Sander's avatarAging Abundantly | Women Over Fifty | Empty Nesters | Caregivers | Aging Gracefully

Disney's Lion KingFive days ago, I celebrated my 63rd birthday. Some days I think the internet and social media are just a fantasy world in which some of us choose to live from time to time – for me, birthdays are one of the best days to be alive and well and living on Facebook. Wow! I can pretend! It sure beats the many years when my kids were small and my husband was either out of work or laid out by work and birthday celebrations were pretty much all my doing. The day I broke down and bought myself a birthday cake simply because I wanted one was the second most liberating moment of my younger life. The first has to be the day my husband said to me, “Why are you cooking for me, honey, and why the heck are you making my lunch? Don’t you have better things to do?”…

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“Depression is a disease of civilization”

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tell me a story
“Depression is a disease of civilization”
TED Talk Speaker Stephen Ilardi
Post Created by Jennifer Kiley
Posted Thursday 14th August 2014
TELL ME A STORY

Humans were never meant for this world.
We were never designed for the sedentary,
indoor, socially isolated, sleep deprived,
vastly lazy pace of human life. Our genes
haven’t changed that much.

Depression has continued to increase.

There is a need to have a change of
life style. What did our ancestors do
that we are doing to protect ourselves
from the overwhelming illness of
depressed.

There are way to Work on Depression

Exercise is medicine. It changes the
brain & the body. But we don’t exercise.
It slows down the aging process. If you
live you don’t need exercise. What we
need to be is physically active.

Brisk walking is good. If you are
able to. 30 mins. 3 x per week.

We need Omega…

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