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Cynthia McFarland

    Community Gardens Provide Fresh Produce, Optimism and Health Benefits

    Published On: February 14, 2025By Cynthia McFarland4.7 min read

    Grocery receipts don’t lie. Prices for food and beverages are 22.33% higher than in 2020, which is one reason behind the increased popularity of community gardens. Simply put, your [...]

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    Infrared Therapy Uses Light and Heat to Provide Health Benefits

    Published On: October 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland3.7 min read

    Sometimes what you can’t see can help you.  That’s definitely the case with infrared therapy in the form of both light and heat. Our eyes can’t see infrared light [...]

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    Revamp Your Lifestyle to Make Changes for Better Skeletal Health

    Published On: July 22, 2024By Cynthia McFarland4.2 min read

    No Bones About It As we age, our bones continue to remodel, but we lose bone mass because the resorption of bone is usually greater than bone formation. [...]

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    Heart Disease in Women: A Closer Look

    Published On: April 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland8.1 min read

    From time immemorial, women have been keepers of the heart. Nurturing and tending the hearts of loved ones is what women do. But when it comes to our own [...]

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    Early Connections, Lifelong Impact: Learning from Childhood Lessons

    Published On: April 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland5 min read

    We can’t blame our parents for all our issues, but the foundation for relationship skills in adulthood does develop when we are young. Psychoanalyst John Bowlby believed that attachment [...]

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    Friend or Foe? Keeping It Real in an Era of Digital Dependence

    Published On: January 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland3.7 min read

    Keeping It Real in an Era of Digital Dependence. The 1970 hit song “Close To You” by The Carpenters wasn’t about smartphones – they weren’t invented yet – [...]

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    Getting Fit Never Gets Old

    Published On: January 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland8.1 min read

    Fitness Pro Jaime Brenkus Teaches Boomers and Beginners How to Live Healthier Longer Exercise more. Eat better.  Many of us try — and sometimes succeed — to fit [...]

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    Small Changes: Big Results

    Published On: January 1, 2024By Cynthia McFarland11.9 min read

    Forming Healthier Habits One Day at a Time Whether you call them “resolutions” or “goals,” the changes you vow to make as the calendar rolls over to a [...]

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    Sober Confessions: Finding Freedom from Alcohol and Anger

    Published On: September 29, 2023By Cynthia McFarland2.3 min read

    Finding freedom from potent combination of alcohol and anger. It wasn’t enough to get a buzz. When Jimmy Strasser drank, he drank until he passed out.  His first [...]

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    Overcoming a Severe Brain Injury

    Published On: September 29, 2023By Cynthia McFarland4.2 min read

    Overcoming a severe brain injury. I never saw it coming. The kick in the head that turned my life into “before” and “after” took me completely by surprise. I [...]

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    Operation Shoebox salutes deployed troops with care packages

    Published On: September 29, 2023By Cynthia McFarland4.3 min read

    Operation Shoebox salutes deployed troops by sending them thoughtful care packages.  It was 2003. Five of Ronald and Mary Harper’s 10 kids and their two sons-in-law were all [...]

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    Like a Phoenix Rising: Restoration from Ashes is Nothing but Miraculous

    Published On: September 28, 2023By Cynthia McFarland4.1 min read

    From living on the street to living for the Lord, Isaac Deas’ restoration from ashes is nothing but miraculous.  Looking into his eyes, you’d never know how far [...]

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    Entrepreneurship Has No Age Limitations

    Published On: June 26, 2023By Cynthia McFarland7.9 min read

    Dasie Cruz is Proof Entrepreneurship Has No Age Limitations Not a day goes by that Dasie Cruz isn’t thinking of ways to improve the business she launched in [...]

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    Standing strong and cheating cancer

    Published On: June 26, 2023By Cynthia McFarland2.5 min read

    The insistence of her beloved cat was the sign Deb Jayne couldn’t ignore. “ZuZu would lay on my bed every night and nudge my left breast. She started doing this [...]

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    A new narrative

    Published On: December 31, 2022By Cynthia McFarland1.9 min read

    For Taylor Mitchell, weight loss is her gain Taylor Mitchell knows a thing or two about transformation and change. The Leesburg native has experienced it up close and [...]

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