This the 9th and final installment of the healthy habits for writers series. Relaxation is not a luxury but a requirement to have your best life. All the money in the world does not make a happy full life if you don’t have your best health. School administrators, employers, physicians, clergy, people from all walks [...]
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7 relaxation tips and why they work
Posted 13 March 2010 by Shari SmothersTagged As: Relaxation, Self-Care, tips for relaxation | Categories: Health Related | 1 Comment
7 benefits of keeping a writing schedule
Posted 12 March 2010 by Shari SmothersTagged As: benefits of planned writing, keep a writing schedule | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
This the 8th installment of the healthy habits for writers series. It’s important to know where you’ve been. It’s why we study history. Well—in theory it’s why we study history. The idea is that we should be able to operate within the parameters of out present, knowing what’s happened in our past and allowing for [...]
healthy habits: 7 exercises for writers
Posted 11 March 2010 by Shari SmothersTagged As: exercise, exercises for writers | Categories: Health Related | 2 Comments
This the 7th installment of the healthy habits for writers series. How often have you worked an entire day only to realize that you are stiff and fully spent? It’s as though you went to a gym and worked out for hours— the stiffness only though. You don’t have any of the burn, or the [...]
healthy habits: 7 sources of stress and how to manage them
Posted 28 December 2009 by Shari SmothersTagged As: healthy habits, stress, stress solutions | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
This the 6th installment of the healthy habits for writers series. The following are general life areas that very important. And they can bring to bear, a great deal of negative stress. Negative stress is the chronic, debilitating stress that threatens to block your productivity. Stresses have threatened and succeeded in impeding my work on [...]
healthy habits: rest well to work well
Posted 7 September 2009 by Shari SmothersTagged As: benefits of sleep, healthy habits, importance of sleep, sleep | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
This is the 5th post from the healthy habits series. You can’t Put Sleep Off Safely It’s not because your brain turns off. Quite the contrary, in fact. Many people claim to need 3 or 4 hours of sleep and they’re fine. And, while they may actually be able to function, they are putting their [...]
healthy habits: practice proper posture
Posted 5 August 2009 by Shari SmothersTagged As: benefits of good posture, healthy habits, proper posture | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
This is the 4th installment for the posts from the healthy habits series. Even with the long pause between installments, I had to return to the set to share these things that have helped me. Do you ever have trouble concentrating? Do you feel fatigued even when you’ve slept? Two hours ever feel like six? [...]
healthy habits: what is brain food?
Posted 19 January 2009 by Shari SmothersTagged As: brain food, healthy habits, nutrition, Self-Care | Categories: Health Related | 4 Comments
I knew I was in trouble when I couldn’t focus on any thoughts. I seemed to be moving through a never-lifting fog. Only with the greatest effort was I able to hold on to thoughts long enough to complete them. Once I learned I needed to take iron, and that was squared away, I decided [...]
healthy habits: mind, spirit and body
Posted 8 January 2009 by Shari SmothersTagged As: changing habits, habits, health, Self-Care | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
A few months ago, I started my healthy habits postings and then I got sidetracked BIG TIME. This is the second entry of the 9 posts originally planned for the healthy habits series. If I told you that you need to be in good condition to run a marathon, or to begin a diet, or [...]
healthy habits: 5 lifestyle areas to review
Posted 31 August 2008 by Shari SmothersTagged As: healthy habits, lifestyle changes, self-assessment, Self-Care | Categories: Health Related | 2 Comments
This is the first installment for the post from the healthy habits series. Be sure to return for other entries in this set. Do you know what to do when your health starts to flag? You know how sometimes you get sick, your sinuses fill and apply pressure to your head to bulge, only there [...]
healthy habits for writers
Posted 25 August 2008 by Shari SmothersTagged As: health, healthy habits, lifestyle changes, Self-Care | Categories: Health Related | Leave a Comment
Lately, the topic of healthy habits as a writer keeps coming up. I needed a starting place to consider what I was going to change. I’ve been reviewing my lifestyle and my less than stellar habits. I sometimes take health matters for granted, and allow bad habits to stand. In part it’s because I’m writing; [...]
