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Happy July from sunny Colorado! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my free bi-monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring for yourself while caring for others.

 

Positively Yours,
LeAnn

Positivity Power   

 

Most healthcare workers spend less time outdoors than an inmate on Rickers Island! You have the freedom to set your daily schedule and to create the life you want to live. So make a plan to soak up this summer sunshine!

 

 

 

Lessons from LeAnn

Studies prove that people who spend time outdoors are more positive and healthier. Exercising in natural environments produces greater feelings of enjoyment and revitalization, increases energy and positivity, and it decreases tension, confusion, anger and depression. Because it is so enjoyable, people who walk outdoors exercise longer than those on indoor treadmills.

 

Sunshine (on sunny or cloudy days) is good for your body. It's the best source of vitamin D, which is proven to fight inflammation, osteoporosis, cancer, depression and heart attacks. Sunlight improves digestion, metabolism and your immune system. It increases white blood cells in your blood and red ones too, which increase oxygen.

 

Being outdoors is good for your mind too. Light is a natural mood enhancer. Sunshine increases the production of endorphins and serotonin which perk you up and increase your joy.

 

Sunbeams are also good for your spirit. Let the warm rays fall on your face like a benediction, soothing your body, mind and soul.

 

So take a walk, sit in the sunshine and smell the roses. Go outdoors and see the sunny side of life (literally!)

 

 
   
In This Issue
Positivity Power
Lessons from LeAnn
Sip du Jour
About LeAnn Thieman

Sip du Jour

A Healthy Quote:  

 

 "I am sick of four walls and a ceiling. I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass."

-Richard Hovey

      

To learn more about caring for your mind, body and spirit and to improve your happiness and health, explore LeAnn's new initiative, SelfCare for HealthCare: Your Guide to Physical, Spiritual and Mental Health.  





About LeAnn Thieman

Best-Selling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Nurse.  

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's SoulChicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and 10 other Chicken Soup for the Soul titles. Her book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones" shares lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Her latest book and initiative is SelfCare for HealthCare

: Your Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health.  

 

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