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Happy fall from Colorful Colorado! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring while living a more balanced life.

 

Positively Yours,
LeAnn
Positivity Power   
 
Last month at this time I was laughing and screaming at the top of my lungs! On the California Screamin' roller coaster that is. I decided then that every adult needs to make opportunities to laugh uproariously and scream periodically for therapeutic stress relief. That explains why I rode that Disneyland beast seven times!
 
Lessons from LeAnn

As grownups leading over-busy, often-stressful lives, we could learn a thing or two from Mickey Mouse and grand kids. One of the biggest reasons we don't laugh and scream is fear of looking foolish. It's a primary fear. Adults are more afraid of looking foolish in public than of a nuclear attack, which comes in second. What's wrong with this picture?

For most of our lives we've been conditioned not to laugh too loud or be too silly. What did you hear as a child? "Wipe that smile off your face." "This is no laughing matter." "You're making a fool out of yourself." "Grow up. Act your age."

But no matter our age, we need to give ourselves permission to belly laugh. It teaches us to be out of control, brings us into the moment, helps us transcend our problems, brings us closer to people, and helps us think more clearly. Laughing, squealing and playing with my grand kids - acting goofy as Goofy - nurtures my body, mind and spirit.
So find an amusement park or haunted house or invent a reason to laugh uproariously and scream at the top of your lungs. You'll feel great! Just ask Mickey or Goofy....or me!

Here I am practicing what I preach as I reenact the "performance" I did as a kid while my little sisters hummed circus music:

Good Times on the Old Swingset in Iowa
Good Times on the Old Swing Set in Iowa
In This Issue
Sip du Jour
A Healthy Quote:
 
"We don't stop laughing when we grow old, we grow old when we stop laughing."
-Michael Pritchard 
 
To learn more ways to nurture your mind, body and spirit, order LeAnn's book Balancing Life in Your War Zones, Your Guide to Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health.  
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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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