Category: Health and Wellness
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Watching Movies at Home During COVID-19
This weekend I would normally be out of the house watching a movie at my local movie theater. I would have already checked the listing of new releases earlier in the week and started making plans. I would have gone online reading the reviews and ratings on the films I wanted to see. But because…
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Zoom Videoconferencing Helps Me Live Work and Play During COVID-19
I don’t know about you but I have seen an increase in the request to join a meeting through Zoom videoconferencing. I would dare to say that almost daily if not weekly I get an email invite to a webinar, meeting, seminar, townhall or chat. If you have not gotten an invite for Zoom in…
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My Blindness Doesn’t Determine My Happiness
Ever since I lost my vision in the late 1990s to Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) syndrome, which is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic, bilateral uveitis, I made a decision that I would strive to live a happy life. I was determined that my blindness would not control me and I would figure out how to live…
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How I Manage Anxiety Around the coronavirus
Each day more and more info comes out about the coronavirus. I am sure you have heard and read the reports so I won’t go over it here on my blog. As a result, I could allow this constant bombardment of news and information to sweep me away causing me severe stress and anxiety. But…
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Making Peace with My Lack of Sleep
This week, March 3-9, is National Sleep Awareness Week. The Sleep Health Foundation contends that sleep is the third pillar of health, alongside diet and exercise. I would strongly agree because for the last 14 years I have battled with a sleeping disorder. Like so many others I took my sleeping for granted but now…
Empish J. Thomas 