DR. LESLIE VAN ROMER
Location: Sequim, WA, USA
Website: www.GettingintoYourPants.com
Website: www.DrLeslieVanRomer.com
BIO
Dr. Leslie Van Romer, author of Getting into Your Pants, and its companion workbook, Getting into Your Pants PlayBook, is a chiropractor, weight-loss cheerleader, and feel-good-about-you motivational health speaker.
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THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE
Walk With A Purpose
My 82-year-old mother, my rock and my hero, opened her eyes just as my father slipped into her hospital room.
Two days before, we six kids got the word.
"Mom's been in a bad car accident. A truck ran a stop sign at 50 mph, crashed into her car, and flipped it over--twice. She's okay, but in a lot of pain with serious injuries: broken back, neck, and sternum. Don't come and don't call."
I obeyed--partly. I didn't call, but I did catch the next possible cross-country plane.
Recovering from subsequent back surgery, my mother watched my father as he tip-toed to her bedside and carefully bent over to kiss her. Sweetly. Gently.
My mother spoke only five words: "Walk with a purpose, Ed." My father looked at me, made that familiar, funny-dad face, and promptly stood tall, straightening up his spine with shoulders back, chest out, stomach in, and head held high. He then proceeded to strut his purposeful walk around the sterile-white room.
For me, my mother's wisdom, somehow surfacing from beneath the pain, rang loud and true, beyond simply triggering my dad's antics and our much-needed giggles.
Yes, lean body mass, a diet centered on fresh fruits and vegetables, daily exercise, sleep, clean air and water, psychological comfort, stress management, and connective relationships all contribute to health, mobility, activity, and longevity.
But a lifelong sense of purpose, which may change directions but doesn't wane with retirement or age, continually fuels our inner flames, empowering us to add days to our lives and life to our days.
Whether a nurturing mother, a good friend, a helpful volunteer, or, like my eighty-five-year-old dad, working full-time in a thriving, self-built company, consciously aligning your life with your unique higher purpose allows you to be all that you were born to be while opening doors for others to do the same.
Listening to your inner voice and following your highest calling, something far greater than yourself, rewards you with life's best gifts: inner joy, a sense of peace, and soul-deep gratitude, especially for the gift of life itself.
As for my mother, now eighty-five, she continues to exemplify living her higher purpose, as the rock and hero for her six children, fifteen grandchildren, five great-grand children, and the man she still lovingly reminds:
"Walk with a purpose, Ed!" And indeed he does.
ARTICLE ARCHIVE
Heart Disease Touches All Hearts - Life is precious. Often we get distracted by day-to-day trivia – those oh-so-important must have’s and must do's on our lists. But, in the end, most things and activities don't matter; people do. That's what hit me – hard – as I tread softly past
3 Simple Steps to Getting into Your Pants – For Good! - Welcome aboard America’s diet-go-round, one which you may have ridden a few dozen times before. You plan, measure, count, weigh, sacrifice, deprive, starve, crave, sneak (as if you can really sneak from yourself), and guilt.
About seven years ago . . . The phone rings. It’s my brother. My brother never calls. My guts know in an instant that something is terribly wrong. My mother had fallen a few days before and was due for surgery to repair her broken hip. “Les
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That call came -- you know, the one that all moms dread. It was 5:15 p.m., Friday. I was taking care of a patient while several others kindly waited their turn. "Dr. Leslie, there's a phone call for you. You have to take it . . . right now." The ashened look on her face and staccato "right now" revealed all. I mustered
"I am!" are the two most empowering words in the English language.
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Not "I should" eat more fruits and vegetables. Not "I could" live without meat and cheese ...
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