Uplifting Insights & Life-Balance Tools

March 2016

Happy wintertime from beautiful, snowy 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,

Positivity Power

Most of us made numerous resolutions when we welcomed the new year. Many of us promised to take better care of ourselves, to exercise more, and maybe lose a few pounds. Yet there are two more life-saving SelfCare resolutions I plead with you to make today.

Lessons from LeAnn

When was your last Pap smear or prostate exam?

When was your last mammogram?

If the answer is "more than one year ago," I urge you to stop reading this eSip, pick up the phone, and call your healthcare provider.

Still reading? Need more encouragement? (Okay, nagging?)

You have heard me tease that we are often so busy taking care of other people, we forget to take care of ourselves. We teach our patients the importance of monthly self-breast or testicle exams, but do we practice what we preach? We lecture them to get annual exams, Pap smear and mammograms, but do we? For those of us over 50, have you had your colonoscopy? (Why did it take me five years to schedule that? It was so easy!)

Past eSips reminded us that we are always juggling ball of responsibilities in our lives. We need to determine which are rubber (and replaceable) and which are glass. The glass ones, usually the people we love and our own health, if dropped, can be irretrievably broken. Don't drop them.

Not tomorrow, but today. Make that call.

In This Issue

Positivity Power

Lessons from LeAnn

Sip du Jour

About LeAnn Thieman

Sip du Jour

A Healthy Quote:

"It's time to care for ourselves as attentively as we do our patients and all those we love. We deserve it."

- LeAnn Thieman

To learn more tools for SelfCare, order a personalized copy of LeAnn's book detailing these and more life-balance lessons, Balancing Life in Your War Zones: A Guide to Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health.

About LeAnn Thieman

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

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Chicken 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.

To see past eSips on balancing life and living priorities: