Sip of Soup

Uplifting Insights & Life-Balancing Tools

   

March                                                                                                                             2011
Dear Fellow Caregiver,  

Springtime greetings from Colorado!   Welcome to Sip of Soup, my monthly tools to help you balance your life physically, mentally, and spiritually.  May my messages give you inspiration, warm your heart and touch your soul... like taking a sip of comforting chicken soup. 

Positively Yours,
LeAnn

LeAnn

 

Positivity Power

"It's fun to eat right and exercise and play!" a boisterous third-grader exclaimed after NFL players at his school convinced him to Fuel-Up to Play60. What if we grown-ups "played" along? 

 

Lessons from LeAnn
Family Play

The NFL and the Western Dairy Council have teamed up to help us raise healthier kids. The lessons are quite simple, teaching children how to eat healthy foods and to play and stay active for 60 minutes a day. Let's join them!

 

It's great that 68% of schools are implementing this behavior, and just think how much better it would be if the whole family joined in.

 

Besides eating non-processed healthy food, try starting a new fitness tradition with your family. For example, reserve evenings for after-dinner walks or weekend mornings for biking (or tricycling!) It doesn't cost a penny to rediscover the joy of tag and other childhood games. You are sure to feel young again after a rousing game of duck duck goose!

 

Playing with your kids, your mate, or even your friends and neighbors for 60 minutes is a great way to balance your life and live your priorities. At one of my seminars a young mom shared her best way of combining both. When her kids get off of the school bus she, and her husband if he is home, walk around the cul-de-sac with them while they talk about their days. This ritual gives a family a lot more than just exercise, doesn't it? It says to the kids, you are the most important thing to me and I can hardly wait for you get home so we can all do this together.

 

If we join in Fuel-Up and Play60 we will lower our risk of heart attacks, diabetes, bone cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, backaches, high blood pressure, depression and stress...and it will increase our family's health and happiness too.

 

Wishing you good food and fun!

 

In This Issue
Positivity Power
Lessons from LeAnn
Sip du Jour
Balancing Life
Bring LeAnn to You
About LeAnn Thieman

Sip du Jour

A Healthy Quote:

"When was the last time that you played an enjoyable game? If you quit playing because it is a child's sport, then you are wrong."

George Bernard Shaw

Nobel Prize Winning Playwright

 

Health & Harmony

Balancing Life

To learn more FUN ways to balance your life and live your priorities, you can order LeAnn's book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones;" a Guide to Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health:

 

Bring LeAnn to You

To find out more about having LeAnn Thieman bring healthy balance and inspiration to your staff or organization, Click Here.

About LeAnn Thieman

Best-Selling Author, Nurse, Wife, Mother & Grandmother, National Speaker Association Hall of Fame.

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's SoulChicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and nine other  Chicken Soup for the Soul titles including the latest: Chicken Soup for the Soul - A Book of Miracles.
Author: Balancing Life in Your "War Zones - A Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health; This Must Be My Brother, Adrift in the Storms: A Twenty Year Journey to Peace.

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