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The image on the left was taken eleven years ago on the streets of Manhattan. It was very difficult to keep up with my teenage son. Finally, I told him to go ahead and sightsee without me. After he disappeared into the crowd, I found an ice-cream shop. . .my drug of choice to help me cope. The image on the right is me today. I’m going back to New York next week to visit a daughter and son-in-law. I can walk for miles now!
This morning during a podcast interview, I realized once again that it’s the hard times we go through that teach us the greatest lessons.
It was the years of ongoing struggle to find a solution to the addiction to high-fat, high-salt, processed food and sweets that has ignited my passion to now help others get free.
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Winter fun in Indiana: playing with my two grand pups Fern and Frankie. Photo credit: Yaro Photography
For the past decade, I have used light therapy first thing every morning—either my UV therapy light or a morning walk outdoors without sunglasses.
I have also intentionally exercised most every morning too.
Addiction and depression go hand in hand.
I do everything I can to stay out of both, because both hijack God’s best for my life.
And let me be honest, throughout the winter months I have to fight twice as hard to exercise and do the things that come so naturally to me the rest of the year.
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