Mind Set |

June 9, 2010

Is Your Spouse Too Needy? Looking For Relationship Problem Advice?

Is your spouse or maybe another close relation driving you nuts with their neediness?

You love them, but you don’t love being sucked dry?

Even healthy relationships have their challenges.

The relationship problem advice you are seeking might give you as much insight into your own neediness as your spouse’s.

The source of neediness within a relationship lies with the “inner-child” needs and issues of both parties.

Both your inner child and their’s need to be considered to discover creative ways to nurture your relationship and satisfy that needy feeling.

In case you don’t know this about me, I’m a parenting instructor as well as a health coach. When I get the chance, I teach Redirecting Children’s Behavior.

Whether I teach it in a classroom or over the fence to the neighbor, I’ve seen this powerful information change lives!

Understanding why your children do what they do is empowering all by itself. Teaching them to meet their own needs empowers them and satisfies that needy feeling.

Redirecting Behavior starts with nurturing yourself and making sure your “bank” is full. Then it is important to nurture all the important relationships in your life by making deposits in the “bank” of the one you love, more often than you withdraw from it!

When dealing with adults it is easy to see how nurturing their inner child will get you a whole lot further than arguing with them.

In the case of self sabotage, the answers lie within. The answers lie with YOUR inner child.

Want to understand the inner child that’s driving you nuts?

If you are self sabotaging, or your needy spouse is mis-behaving you need to understand what might be the underlying goal of the behavior.

The first sign that this is an issue is probably going to be your irritation with yourself and/or others.

When you feel irritated, ask yourself which of the mistaken goals below might be the issue. Continue reading article →

Ideal Weight |

June 8, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Would a List of High Fiber Foods Motivate You To Eat Better?

That list of high fiber foods is the all star lineup for your healthy diet plan!

High fiber foods can help you to lose weight, prevent constipation, diabetes, and heart disease, help reduce your risk of high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, obesity, hemorrhoids, some cancers, high blood sugar, and it keeps your digestive system working properly.

Awesome foods, wouldn’t you say?

All plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds and beans, have fiber. But all fiber is not the same. Fiber can be divided into two categories and they have different effects on your body.

Soluble fiber is found in dried beans, peas, oats and oat bran, flaxseed and psyllium husks. It’s also found in fruits such as oranges and apples and vegetables like carrots.

Soluble fiber binds with fatty acids in your stomach and prolongs digestion time, helping to regulate blood sugar.

Studies also show that soluble fiber can help reduce your overall cholesterol count. But what’s even more important, soluble fiber lowers your LDL, which is considered to be bad cholesterol.

Insoluble fiber is found in whole wheat, wheat bran, vegetables such as cauliflower and green beans and the skins of fruits and root vegetables.

Insoluble fiber helps remove toxins from your colon and balance intestinal acidity. It also helps move waste through your bowel.

The recommended total daily fiber intake for adults is 30 to 40 grams. But most Americans get only about 10 grams of fiber a day.

Print this page out and post it on your refrigerator, or go grab a pen and paper! You’ll want to refer to this list until you have memorized your go-to foods.

Your Health Building Super Fiber Foods! Continue reading article →

Asthma |

June 7, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

What Do Stiff Necks and Asthma Have To Do With Heart Failure?

: Image by Paco CT via Flickr

Are asthma and stiff necks related?

What the heck do either of them have to do with heart failure?

Asthma is considered to be a disease that inflames and narrows the airways. When your airways are inflamed and narrow, you usually wheeze.

However, it is good to know that some people don’t really “wheeze”, they just stop moving air through their lungs.

When your health care provider listens to your lungs they may assume that your lungs are “clear” (or “good to go”), when in fact they are hearing an absence of air flow.

NO AIR FLOW IS MUCH WORSE THAN NOISY AIR FLOW!

Your lungs must move air or you are sunk!

Are you aware that your stiff neck is caused by the same type of inflammatory process that causes wheezing? Continue reading article →

Ideal Weight |

June 6, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Have You Asked Yourself: How Much Am I Supposed To Weigh?

Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

Why?

When you look in the mirror do you like what you see?

Unfortunately, if you are like most people, that is an uncomfortable question to answer.

I mean, even if you like what you see, does it make you feel arrogant to say … “yes, I like what I see in the mirror”?

Or perhaps if you are unhappy about being over weight, when you look at someone else who “looks good”, you feel unpleasant feelings of envy arise within you.

Jill was very unhappy when I met her. She was the new licensed practical nurse hired to cared for Mr. Mendes, a heart failure patient that I had been taking care of for many years.

One afternoon while Mr. Mendes was sleeping I stopped by to check up on the two of them. Since Jill had some time on her hands we decided to enjoy a cup of tea together.

During our conversation, she expressed how frustrating it was for her to understand the diet restrictions that Mr. Mendes’ daughter had instructed her to adhere to when planning his meals.

4“I think it is cruel to deprive him of foods that the rest of the family is eating”, she said. Continue reading article →