Tag Archives: Health

Boomer Back-Beat: How I Conquered Type II Diabetes

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

Type II Diabetes is common among baby boomers. Let’s face it, we are a well fed group of people and many of us are overweight. Being overweight is the precursor for Type II Diabetes. People who are overweight will usually also have … Continue reading →

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How To Live Well With Chronic Illness

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

I had Hepatitis C for 33 years. Unlike most people who fall victim to this virus, I became very sick at the onset of its attack. That was in 1977 and, at that time, there was no test to diagnose … Continue reading →

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To Be Over-Medicated Is To Be Helpless

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

Modern medicine offers hope to those who would be hopeless without it. There are treatments available that enable us to either cure or live with diseases that meant death for those who suffered in the past. Often,when we are sick or … Continue reading →

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Learning To Trust Instead Of Worry Is A Process

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

It is natural for human beings to worry. We live in an unsafe world. Anxiety is a seemingly reasonable action in protecting us from future harm. It is the act of looking backward to prevent what may lie ahead. It … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Abuse, Healing, and Full Health

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

I’ve spent a lot of my time in the last decade writing and conversing with people online. I hear too many stories of people who have been or are being spiritually abused. This isn’t a new problem but the label of … Continue reading →

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Isolation:Shut In and Shut Out Of Life

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

Isolation imposed by ill-health is the equivalent of serving a prison term in your own home. To become a shut-in is to be shut out of life. Human beings are made for relationship with others and when relationship is cut off, … Continue reading →

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Healthy Aging: Seasons

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

There is no place I would rather be on a summer’s morning than beneath my cottonwoods tending to my gardens. The connection I feel to nature as I work among my plants, is physically and spiritually healing. God speaks to … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Health:Spiritual Abuse

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

If there is anything that we humans are adept at, it is that of abusing one another. Often, if we are not abusing someone else, we are abusing ourselves. If not ourselves or one another, than nature or God. All … Continue reading →

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Healthy Aging: When Your Body Betrays You

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

One day, everything was going well. I was leading a busy and happy life. Then I received a call from my doctor and suddenly, I found myself traveling down another road. That one phone call changed everything. Actually, I had … Continue reading →

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Healthy Aging: I Hope I Die Before I Get Old!

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Pam Witzemann

Remember when we didn’t trust anyone over thirty and we thought we’d never get old? A lot has changed since then including me but I still haven’t lost my desire to stay young and I’m still more afraid of getting … Continue reading →

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