Bethany Hamilton's Blog, page 18

Find Your Natural High

Did you know that we come hard wired with “happy hormones”? It’s true! Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins* are all hormones that produce positive feelings and can be boosted by simple activities. We are built to experience a true natural high from pleasurable things like exercise, eating, laughing, affection, and sleeping. I believe we don’t need to create a false and fleeting high with...

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No Bake Apple Pie Recipe

Here is a fun spin on good old Apple Pie! This recipe is full of fresh, raw fruits and nuts and will leave you feeling satisfied by the taste AND nutritional value. Pure Americana in each healthy bite, but the date crust gives it a major nutritious spin. For the Apple Filling: 1 cup raisins 8 to 9 organic apples (go for Gala if you want it sweet or Granny Smith if you want it a little tart) 2 Tbsp...

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Dealing with Anger

Hi, Adam here. Before I had the outlet of sports to “burn off” some of my steam, I was for some reason or other an angry child that could go ballistic at any moment. Apparently I was quite the handful, or so I’ve been told by a certain loving mother. Aside from throwing the standard tantrums around nap time, I really let loose on my brothers. I remember one day, my youngest brother Nolan was...

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Beautifully Flawed Retreat 2021

Happy for great times shared, friendships created, hope instilled, the love of God poured out, and so much more than words can say! And some sad tears to be saying goodbye and the expression of emotions from such a meaningful week. Mahalo to Beautifully Flawed Foundation for dedicating so much love & care to this unique group of beautiful women, like myself, with limb differences I want to share...

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Talking About Body Love

How about your identity? I’ve been thinking about our cultural obsession with the perfect body. Especially on Instagram. And magazines. All of the platforms. It’s invasive and it’s everywhere. Perfection in the physical is often overly celebrated, in my opinion. We’ve grown numb or used to it and many of us have adopted the idea of an ideal body. But there is sooooo much more to a happy...

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Only One YOU

Did you know that Words of Affirmation are one of the five Love Languages for many people? Words matter. Today I want to share with you some words of encouragement on the topic of comparison. I also have an entire course on Letting Go of Comparison with the beautiful and talented spoken word artist, Arielle Estoria, as my inspiring guest. Our conversation and simple action steps will pump you up...

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Our Courtship

While filming my documentary Unstoppable, Aaron Lieber, our friend and the film’s director, captured some sweet moments of Adam and I sharing Our Love Story. Today I want to share some more of that conversation related to our courtship. It is kind of an old school term, but I really like the meaning and practice of it. Basically, it is dating with intentionality, even being geared toward marriage...

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Salt Water

Not sure it’s quite that simple, but I appreciate the sentiment. I sure love the ocean and getting a sweat on, and sometimes I definitely need a good cry! Salt water may not cure everything, but it can definitely help. Moving your body and breaking a sweat is powerful on so many levels. There are the benefits of a good sweat that are notable and scientifically proven too: boosting energy...

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One of My Fav Green Smoothies

When isn’t it green smoothie time!? I’m here with Kirby Dillberg, who is married to my friend and go-to natural health practitioner Dr. Dustin Dillberg. Kirby is a nutritionist who helped contribute to my book Body and Soul: A Girl’s Guide to a Fit, Fun and Fabulous Life – a good tool full of encouragement, information, recipes, and workouts. Kirby and I are gonna show you how to make one of my...

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Motherhood Update!

Micah is about 2.5 months old now. He’s out of this world beautiful and very healthy. We are thankful! He has also been sooo challenging and hardly sleeps on his own, so that has been stretching me a ton, and teaching Adam and I much patience and perseverance. I’m writing this as Micah is taking his longest ever nap by himself and the big boys are out and about with their cousins and auntie!

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