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Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss with Pastor Rick Craig

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In this interview, Dr. Chuck and Pastor Rick Craig discuss the tough subject of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss and ways for families to navigate through such a tragedy.

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Rick is the author of When It’s Time. This is a great book that talks about end-of-life issues, and a very emotional thing that’s discussed in your book, Pastor Rick, is miscarriage, stillbirth and the loss of an infant. Tell us about your experiences there and give us some tips on how to navigate through this.Pastor Rick: Well, I think we’ve all heard the phrase that, “losing a child is the hardest thing ever you could go through in life,” and I think that’s very true. Dr. Chuck: It’s not supposed to happen. Pastor Rick: Not supposed to happen. In fact, in that chapter there’s two different ladies that I interviewed, Carolyn and Cassie, both of them had similar experiences and both of them had the same statements is, “the number of questions that they were asked after their babies had passed away was overwhelming,” just overwhelming. So in that chapter, they give some pretty good ideas on how to help someone process through that. I take it from a different perspective and I talk about so many questions that I’ve had about that is, “do I have a funeral, memorial, a service for my baby?” Again, we’re talking about miscarriage, we’re talking about stillbirth, and the answer really stands from your own personal convictions. For example, if you are a person who says that baby was not a human yet because the baby was not born and you do not have that connection with that baby, a lot of those people say it’s not necessary. They still grieve, but it’s not necessary. Now, if you have personal convictions, you’re a person of faith and you say that, that baby was a human and that baby was my baby, and I want to honour that baby by having a service for him or her. Then I walked with them through that and how to do that. Now most people don’t know, but funeral homes and cemeteries have a section of the cemetery where there’s no charge for infant burial. Most people don’t know that, it’s free of charge and they do that out of respect and honor for the family. So, they even have little, tiny caskets, little, tiny ones, and some of them might only be this big. But the funeral homes are, most of them are wonderful people, and they want to serve families in their community, so they do that for families. So, that chapter is really based on what is the difference of a stillbirth versus miscarriage? What do you do if you do not have any personal convictions, meaning a person of faith, how do you process through that? Do you have a service? How do you take the first step? And then, if you are a person of faith, then how do you design to service for an infant? So, it’s a very, very important factor and it’s one that you even hate to bring up to someone who is pregnant. But in reality, if they were asked that question, “what would you do if you had a miscarriage or stillbirth?” And I could tell you that 99.999% of the people, the women out there, would say “I have no idea.” Dr. Chuck: But it’s something that you typically don’t think about. It’s always the other person. Pastor Rick: My recommendation would be for any female that is pregnant, is to read that chapter. And it sounds gruesome and it sounds like a dark place that you don’t want to go and you really don’t want to go there emotionally and mentally. But I think everybody should read that chapter to have heads up as, “well, what if something does happen? What am I going to do?” And it’s a subject matter that very few, if any, have ever approached before until they experience that event, and that’s a hard one to experience. Dr. Chuck: Well, I think that’s wise. Yeah, you know, Pastor Rick, you’re bringing up so many things that we should talk about, but we don’t talk about for many reasons, because they’re emotionally charged, and then also it’s just the fact that we’re just so busy nowadays. We don’t take time to stop and think about those, and I think that’s one of the real values of your book. You know, you talk about pre-need and you talk about at-need. At-need are those who just, it happens, you haven’t thought about it. I think what your book speaks to is, it speaks to both groups of people, helping those to prepare, and then also giving some tips for people who they come to this life experience of death and they just can’t wrap their minds around it. It’s just kind of a great guide. By the way, Pastor Rick’s book is called When It’s Time and his website is whenitstime.org. Pastor Rick has been a pastor and a counselor, and, of course, so many of these stories and these resources and these tips come from Pastor Rick’s long history of ministering and serving and dealing with people in their need. Pastor Rick, it’s just great to just to hear these things. They are things that we really don’t want to hear and don’t want to talk about, but just really appreciate your courage to just, to get out there and put this book out. I think it’s really valuable for people. Pastor Rick: I hope everybody gets a chance to read it, because it puts a light on so many subject matters that people just don’t want to talk about or don’t know about. Dr. Chuck: Pastor Rick Craig, whenitstime.org, you can find his book on Amazon and we’ll provide you with some links. Pastor Rick, is great to have you on Spoonful of Courage. Pastor Rick: Thanks, Dr. Chuck, appreciated it. Purchase Pastor Rick Craig's book "When It's Time" by clicking the button below. 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Rick Craig has over 35 years of success developing and leading organizations, both in the private sector and in ministry. He has been an ordained Christian pastor for over twenty years, with a focus in church leadership as a Campus Pastor, and the ministries of pastoral care, local and global missions, and discipleship.

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Rick’s primary ministry today includes speaking engagements and seminars introducing his book, officiating funerals / memorials and grief counseling. His education includes degrees from Vanguard University and Golden West College with a Life Coaching Certification from Western Seminary in Rocklin, California.

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Dealing With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)

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In this video, Dr. Chuck talks about gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) signs and symptoms and what you can do to treat it.

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Here’s what you need to know about heartburn, and in this segment of Spoonful of Courage, I want to give you three things you can do to help that burning feeling in your chest. I’m Dr. Page, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life.

 

Did you know? Almost one third of Americans suffer with reflux. The incidence is rising, especially in the younger population. GERD occurs when acid from your stomach leaks into your lower esophagus. Thus the name gastroesophageal reflux. The thin lining of your esophagus wasn’t made for acid, and when fluid from your stomach ascends into the esophagus, the acid literally burns the lining of your esophagus. That’s why they call it heartburn. If you’re having these burning symptoms, see your practitioner. Remember, there are some other things which you need to rule out, like angina pectoris or pre-heart attack symptoms or gallbladder symptoms. All these are two common maladies which can also mimic heartburn. 

 

So what causes GERD and why is acid reflux on the rise?

The answer is really pretty simple. For most people, it’s that spare tire around your tummy. We’re seeing more reflux these days because the population in general is getting heavier. Belly fat increases the pressure inside your tummy, leaving less space for fluids. This increased abdominal pressure also opens the muscular valve which sits in between your esophagus and stomach. 

 

So here’s tip number one, you’ve got to develop a plan to lose some weight.

The second step begins with minimizing your caffeine intake. Coffee and tea are not the only culprit. Chocolates and peppermint and some medications have the same effect. These things weaken the muscular valve that protects your esophagus from caustic stomach fluid. Remember, caffeine lasts about six hours in your system. So, if you’re a big coffee drinker like me, you’ve got to stop those afternoon cups of caffeine, or if you drink tea at night, you may be setting yourself up for nighttime reflux symptoms. Caffeine and other products open your valve, the lower esophageal sphincter. So when you go to sleep, acid reflux is back up into your esophagus.

That brings us to the third thing you need to know about GERD. Most folks have symptoms at night when they lay down. When your body is flat, stomach fluid goes the path of least resistance: up. So one simple way to counteract this is to elevate your bed, keeping your body flat. If you bend with a wedge or pillows, you apply more pressure on your stomach. In some cases, bending makes reflux symptoms worse.

 

So here's three basic things that you can do which will help with acid reflux:

          1.) Work on your weight.

 

          2.) Minimize caffeine intake, especially six hours before bedtime.

 

          3.) Put some bricks or boards underneath the headboard of your body. Let gravity work for you instead of against you.

 

Now here’s something that’s going to take some courage, try drinking your coffee black. All that cream and milk adds lots of calories to your daily intake. That cream or milk may be adding six or seven hundred calories to your intake per day. Especially, once again, if you’re coffeholic like me. The same goes with sweet tea, think about it.

I’m Dr. Page and thanks for being with us on Spoonful of Courage.

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God Holds Us in His Arms

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In this devotional, Dr. Chuck talks about how God holds us in His arms, discussing the passage Deuteronomy 33:27 where Moses talks about God’s everlasting arms.

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Here’s your spoonful of courage for the day. In the last video, I discussed the fact that we need to hold fast to our confession of hope, but I want to give you a different perspective, and I want to tell you a story about my oldest son, Jacob. He’s now 21 years old, but when he was a toddler he had a very different way of saying or asking for me to hold him. He would say, “Jacob hold dada, Jacob hold dada,” that was his way of wanting me to pick him up and hold him in my arms. Well, in Jacob’s mind he was the one that was doing the holding, he was holding daddy, but the reality was just the reverse. It was his father who was holding him. 

You know spiritually speaking, I think sometimes we have Jacob’s perspective about things, we think that we’re the ones that are holding on to God, and even in the last video I was talking about the fact of the necessity of doing that. But just from a bigger perspective I want to remind you it is God, our heavenly father, who holds us in these chaotic times. 

Let me read to you a passage in Deuteronomy 33:27, it says, “the eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms,” and if you think about this, God, our heavenly father, is our refuge that we can come to him and we can crawl up into his arms. And based upon his unmerited favor towards us, based upon the completed work of Christ and what he has done for us that we cannot do for ourselves, we are now his children. And the fact that he holds us in spite of our inadequacies, in spite of our goof ups, in spite of all of those things, that god loves us as our heavenly father. Isn’t that a great assurance today to know that he’s in it for the long haul in our lives, that he loves us and that his everlasting arms are going to hold us up? 

In the Old Testament, this word is a word called “hesed”, it means that God’s in it for the long haul despite what we do, that God will do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and that’s the best news I can think of. May you fall into his heavenly arms and stay there. 

I’m Dr. Page, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life. Remember, God holds us in His everlasting arms.

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Handling and Processing Emotions

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In this interview, Dr. Chuck talks with author Bruce Pulver about the importance of recognizing and processing our emotions in a healthy manner. 

/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}Handling and Processing Emotions with Bruce Pulver Dr. Chuck: Welcome to Spoonful of Courage, I’m Doctor Page, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life, and I’m here with Bruce Pulver. Bruce, good to have you on the show! Bruce Pulver: Thanks for having me back, this is fun! It’s good to be here. Dr. Chuck: It is fun! And by the way for our audience, we have several segments that you can find on our website and at various places and check out more about Bruce. Bruce is the author of Above The Chatter, Our Words Matter, and you can find that also at the same website, dotcom. But Bruce is an author and speaker, and he uses a unique way of us looking at the words that we use every day and changing the way we think about and using those words to change the way that we think about our life events. And one of the chapters is the “Woah Nelly!” chapter. I believe that’s chapter 15 of your book. And by the way, Bruce, I did read your book. So, surprised that surgeons can read, aren’t you? But anyway, so you know, we all go through the gamut of emotions: depression, anger, loneliness, all kinds of feelings that race through our minds. And I think of the time that I was set up for failure and I put a hole in the wall. Anger, you know, and we all have those feelings of anger. Anger can be a positive or a negative thing, and I want you to tell us a little bit about how do we handle emotions and how this this process can change the way see our circumstances. Bruce Pulver: Wow, yeah, emotions. So for me, I think emotions are, they’re good, they’re part of life, they’re part of our spirit, they’re part of our soul. So that I wouldn’t, you know, stifle them and always put on a certain kind. We’ve got to have ’em, right? We’ve got to go through them, right? You know, I guess we talked little bit about my job loss and, man, every emotion possible. 25 years with a company, right? Believing you’re doing okay, and this wasn’t the first one. We talked, I think, in some emails we’ve exchanged. I’m the proud, proud recipient of three layoffs in my career. And you know the only thing that was the same about every one of those situations? It was me. I’m the only thing that was consistent in downsizing in company number one, in company sold number two, and reorganization number three. So, you know, every emotion, right? The first emotion was, “wait, man, you’re kidding right? You got the wrong guy. You got the wrong Bruce, it can’t be me.” And then it was anger- you know all of that, right? Every word you can think of. And then came self doubt, “well, maybe it was me. Maybe I just got lucky. Maybe I was just in the right place at the right time.” But then at some point you kind of have to say, you know, who wins? Who loses if I don’t win? I don’t mean win like the championship, but pick myself back up. Who, besides myself, is going to suffer and be impacted if I don’t control my emotions, try to harness them for good? Right? So here’s two- here’s one word that could mean two different things. We didn’t plan this: the word “bound”, Chuck. Bound, I’m bound. What does that? What does that mean to you? First thing that comes to your mind? Dr. Chuck: That means being strapped. That means being shackled, being restrained. Bruce Pulver: Love that, but let’s look at it another way. If I said, “Chuck, you are bound for greatness.” How does that word bound just change in the way your emotions feel about being bound? Dr. Chuck: It kind of reminds you of being like cocooned, like a caterpillar cocoon before they become a butterfly. Bruce Pulver: You might have been restricted, but really, if you say, “I’m bound and determined, I’m bound for greatness, I’m bound for glory.” It’s the same word, it’s just how we think about it. So, our emotions do- you know I’m not a neuroscientist, so I don’t know how all that works on the chemicals in the brain, but I know for me, for Bruce Pulver, again, the mouse in my own laboratory. Dr. Chuck: I failed my psychiatry rotation too, so you’re safe here, Bruce. Bruce Pulver: I just have found, through the use of how I think in the words that I use, allow me to make some choices. They allow me to make choice of how I may not be able to control the circumstances, right? We all hear this, but you can control how you respond to them. Kind of gets to the point where, if you can think that life doesn’t happen to you, but life is happening for you, it means you’re going through something, you’re not stuck there. So you had talked about the word- the hole in the wall and the anger, right? And so maybe the word that we can use and then we write these vertically and I just look at the letters. To me, you know, we all have experienced anger in some way or another, and I’ve learned a lesson- two lessons- from the word anger. Our first one would be my acrostic “anger”: A No Good Energy Robber. At the end of the day, being angry is like taking poison and expecting someone else to be impacted by it. It stays with us. The second lesson that I learn is “anger” is just one letter away from the word “angel”. You drop the R and make an L, it becomes “angel”, and I think the world needs less anger and more angels right now. Dr. Chuck: It’s good, it’s very good. We’re here with Bruce Pulver, Above The Chatter Our Words Matter. He’s an author and speaker and speaks in a lot of businesses. He speaks at all kinds of groups, healthcare entities and and what have you. And he helps people change the way they think. And it begins, Bruce, with what you’ve been so good at explaining to people. It begins with a word. Words are expressions of our thoughts. Bruce, it’s been good having you on the show. Don’t forget to text “spoonful” to 66866 and don’t forget Bruce’s website abovethechatterourwordsmatter.com. /*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))} For more interviews with Bruce Pulver click the links below:

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Jesus the Light Bringer

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In this short devotional, Dr. Chuck discusses John 9:2-3 where Jesus and his disciples encounter a blind man, and what the purpose of this story means for us today.

/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}Jesus the Light Bringer Dr. Chuck: Here’s your spoonful of courage for today, I’m Doctor Chuck. Are you ready for Jesus to pass by? When he does, anticipate a change of attitude. Jesus and his disciples left the Temple and had a discussion about a blind man, John 9:2-3 says this: “His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.'”  When trying times occur, our minds go into overdrive. Like the disciples, we point fingers, we ask: “why did this happen?” We tend to place blame on the guilty and give credit to the heroes. Now the disciples fail the question. They’re thinking. What about the reverse scenario? Is everyone who is born healthy and wealthy because they have done things right? Of course not, we don’t always deserve credit when the circumstances are positive. Let’s look up to the great physician. He challenged his followers to see things through a different set of lenses. Instead of playing the fame, shame and blame game, Jesus encourages them to become aware of the opportunities tough times sometimes bring. The Lord brings a new factor into the equation: grace.  Jesus reminds his disciples to look up, recognize the opportunities and life’s troubles, and become aware that God is at work. This mindset moves beyond the natural. Instead of looking out or looking down, grace thinkers look up! Not only do we need to look up, we also need to look then on the inside, reflect on this universal. Like the blind man, no one deserves God’s healing touch of grace. We can’t earn the opportunity for Jesus to pass by our way. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’re all guilty. The Bible declares no one measures up to this standard; everyone misses the mark. Everyone deserves to carry the burden of guilt, shame, and judgment, and on many occasions we are to blame for our suffering situations. Like the blind man, we need someone to pass by and open our eyes, and, like the disciples, we need someone to heal our thinking and transform how we see the brokenness in our world. The man who passed by was more than somebody, a teacher, a leader, or an inspirational speaker, Jesus was the light giver, and his light brings sight. On the cross, Jesus passed by all of humanity, offering the opportunity to see life in a new way. This life begins with a touch of God’s grace. To receive this gift, we must obey the sight giver. The blind man had to stumble through Jerusalem, find a pool outside of the city gates, and wash his eyes in the pool. In that life-giving water in the pool of Siloam. Sight begins with light, and Jesus is the light of the world. We can come to the sight giver and the light giver, and our eyes will be open. I’m Doctor Chuck, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life, and we have a free downloadable bible study for you about this passage in the description below. /*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))} Free downloadable Bible study Click here For more devotionals with Dr. Chuck, register by clicking the button below. Register here

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Simple Steps to a Healthy Lifestyle

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In this interview, Dr. Chuck and Alan Winters of Vigaroom discuss simple steps that people can take in their diet and everyday life to improve their overall health.

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With processed, packaged foods being the norm and fast food restaurants offering quick options for our busy lifestyles, most Americans’ diets are comprised of highly processed foods filled with chemicals and preservatives to give them a longer shelf life. Unfortunately those chemicals don’t give us a longer shelf life, quite the opposite in fact. To discuss this, Dr. Chuck sat down with health and wellness coach Alan Winters, the co-founder of Vigoroom, to share his story and the simple steps he took to a healthy lifestyle. “My story of getting healthy actually starts when I’m about 16 years old,” Winters says. “I’m a really scrawny kid. I’m about 5’7″, Chuck, I barely weigh a 120lbs. My mother takes in my pants- and they’re slim to begin with,” he humorously shares. The first thing Winters did was get active, “I really get passionate about swimming, and I got it from my dad who was a pretty active swimmer. And, I started in to the degree that once I start, I can’t stop. Which teaches me this lesson when it comes to some lifestyle and behavioral issues.” From this, Winters shares what he learned, “Once you get a habit, a good habit, it’s more painful not to do that thing that you have got in the habit of doing than it is to do it, which is kind of the reverse way people see some of these healthy life style things.” So what good habits did Winters learn from this? The answer was simple: clean eating. “What is clean eating? You just eat real food, like real food, like it’s not in a package, it’s not macrobiotic, it’s not organic, you know, it’s just real food,” Winters explains. “I look at it really simple, 80% of the time you should eat food that is recognizable. That would include fruit, can be meat and cheese. It’s not limited to like restrictive diets, but it should be real food. So, I always say if you look at something that’s in a package and you don’t know some of those ingredients because they’re long chemical names, you probably should avoid it. If I have a glass of milk, it probably is just milk. If I have a steak, it’s a steak. If I have chicken- again as long as it’s not filled with antibiotics- it’s fine, or eating vegetables is fine.” Another thing Winters emphasizes is cooking. “Cooking is a good thing! Cooking means you know the ingredients that are involved with what you’re going to eat.” In addition to paying attention to what kinds of food we put into our bodies, it’s also important to be mindful of the amount of food we put in as well. One thing many of us are guilty of, especially during the holidays, is overeating. “I grew up in a family where my mom said to my brother, and my brother is a cardiologist in Georgia, she said to Craig and I: ‘clean your plates because children are starving in Asia,'” Winters shares. “Now, if you’ll look at it, Chuck, it’s kind of funny. By my finishing my food, starving children in another country will be better off. It makes no sense, right?” Winters humorously remarks. And he’s not the only one who’s heard this growing up, many of us are told as kids that we need to “clean our plates.” Which if you’re trying to get a growing child to eat their vegetables is fine; however, this often carries on into adulthood as a habit of overeating. “Let’s face it, weight management is such a huge issue and tied to so many other bad health issues. If everybody just got sensitive to the fact that ‘I’m full enough. Even though there’s more over there I could take, I’m actually pretty satisfied, and that’s good for leftovers for tomorrow. In fact, I could freeze that and enjoy that next week or next month,'” Winters says. “It’s really basic stuff. It’s also stuff it’s not hard to get in the habit of, I’m full enough. I ate real food and I’ll make enough that I’ll freeze some and I’ll have it another day.”    So what are the takeaways from this? Eat real food – Avoid foods that are highly processed and filled with chemicals.  80/20 rule – Eat real, nutritious food at least 80% of the time. It’s ok to cheat from time to time (20%), but for the most part eat real food. Don’t overeat – Listen to your body when it feels full, do not eat to the point of being stuffed just because there is still food on your plate. Package it up for leftovers that can be eaten at another time. Also, wait 20 minutes after eating before getting a second portion; that’s how long it takes your body to realize its full.  By following these simple steps, you can be on the right track to a healthy lifestyle.

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Exercising and Stress Reduction with Dr. Susan Smith Jones

In this interview, Dr. Chuck talks with Dr. Susan Smith Jones

Heading 1 Dr. Chuck: Welcome to Spoonful of Courage, I’m Doctor Chuck, the best guy to see on the worst day of your life, and I’m here with Susan Smith Jones now. She is a holistic expert and we’re talking about her new book, Uplifted, and I just kind of want to bring out the question. You know, Susan, so many people in our culture today are just stressed out. I mean, they’re just stressed to the max. What is your take and what are your thoughts about why people are so stressed? And how do we begin to see life from a more holistic viewpoint? Dr. Susan: Well, that’s great questions, and everyone I know is more stressed out than they ever have been, and what causes other people’s stress maybe doesn’t cause me stress. It could be weather related, deadlines, commitments, fights with family members, the price of gasoline, inflation, rising crime in cities. So, it could be different for everyone. But when you don’t manage your stress well, so many things happen in your body. It increases blood pressure, it makes it more difficult to sleep, causes constipation, suppresses your immunity, causes aches and pains, it reduces the effectiveness of your cardiovascular system, so many things. So there are many ways you can handle stress. One of the best ways we’ve talked about is to make sure you get enough sleep at night and keep your body hydrated. Another is make sure you exercise on a regular basis religiously, and that doesn’t mean just on Easter and Christmas. Dr. Chuck: So let’s back up. For the person who’s just trying to begin an exercise program. Dr. Susan: Yes. Dr. Chuck: What do you recommend? Dr. Susan: Well, walking is one of the most underrated of all activities. My grandmother Fritzy used to say to me, “walk your dog every day, whether you have a dog or not.” And Henry David Thoreau said, “an early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” And there was a wonderful study done at USC, close to where I am, and they took a group of stressed and anxious people. Of course, none of your audience would qualify, because your whole audience is chill. Dr. Chuck: Yeah, we’ve got it all under control here. Dr. Susan: But they took this big group and divided them into two. They had one group walk around the track, a flat track, for 15 minutes, getting their heart rates to at least a 100 beats per minute. So it wasn’t like jogging or running, it was almost like a stroll, and then they tested the body with EMG, electromyography, to see the amount of tension in the muscles. The second group did no exercise, but they were given a tranquilizer, and they discovered that the group that actually did the aerobic workout, their tension in their body, was 20% decreased after 15 minutes, much better than the group given a tranquilizer. Dr. Chuck: It’s the natural endorphines of the body were being released. Dr. Susan: Yes, and now I was just going to say, there was another study done in the UK by Doctor Malcolm Carruthers with 400 people, and he discovered that 10 minutes of an aerobic activity doubles the level of the happy hormones, those endorphines, in your body, that give you a wonderful, happy feeling. And, that is one of the reasons I make sure, unless something comes up, that I get the work out done in the morning, because I want the blessing, like Henry David Thoreau said, of that work out all day long. It makes you a happier person, it makes you more creative, and it puts confidence under your wings. It gives your skin a healthy glow, it helps you get the weight off. So, but with your exercise, you want to do some aerobic and some strength training, a little weight training, two or three times a week. But you also have to do flexibility exercises, like stretching, something like yoga, something that will help you, because doing aerobic and strength training, while they’re great for you, they tighten you, firm you. want, and I think, Doctor Chuck, you are as young as you are flexible. Dr. Chuck: Interesting observation. If you ever go to a nursing home, Doctor Susan, you’ll notice that everybody is drawn up, people nursing homes, and you know I think flexibility is one of the things we don’t think about very often, but just the significance of of stretching every day as you get older, you see people and they begin to scrunch up and everything. Dr. Susan: I know, I know. Dr. Chuck: You know, I think for longevity purposes that’s one of the best things that you can do. So, aerobic, little bit of strength, and a little bit of stretching 10 minutes a day goes a long way. And I’ll tell you something, you know, Doctor Susan, maybe it’s too much information, but my pool is filled with algae, and I haven’t been able to swim for the past three weeks and it’s been driving me nuts. I mean I’ve noticed the difference of just 10 minutes of not being out there swimming, and so now I’ve decided I’m just going to swim in the green gunk anyway. I feel so much better just getting out there and swimming, and so I want to encourage people to take that first step. Dr. Susan: Maybe part of your exercise is cleaning out the algae. Dr. Chuck: Doctor Susan, now you’re meddling because you sound like my wife. So, we’re going to stop on that spoonful of courage, and we’re here with Doctor Susan Smith Jones. You can find so much information on her website susansmithjones,com. She’s got videos, she’s got audio, she’s got all kinds of stuff that are going to help you see the big picture of life, and so this is one of several interviews that we have. Susan, it’s really been an honor to have you on the show. Dr. Susan: Thank you so much. I’m looking forward to our next visit. For more interviews between Dr. Chuck and Dr. Susan Smith Jones, click the links below

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Wired for High-level wellness with Dr. Susan Smith Jones

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In this interview, Dr. Chuck talks with Dr. Susan Smith Jones

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How Our Words Matter with Bruce Pulver

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In this interview, Dr. Chuck talks with Bruce Pulver about changing the way you can look at words and how our mindset about them matters.

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You’re goin to want to stay tuned on this episode, because Bruce has a unique way of looking at the words, that process through our mind and it’s interesting how this started. Bruce, tell us how you, how this came about, that you began thinking in this way about the words that are operating in your mind. Bruce Pulver: Yeah, sure, so I had what I call a “bam!” moment in life. Dr. Chuck: Hopefully it wasn’t a hammer! Bruce Pulver: We all have them. Sometimes it’s a hammer, sometimes it’s a tragedy, you know, maybe a health tragedy. Sometimes it’s a relationship, you never know. Dr. Chuck: But it happens.Bruce Pulver: It happened, right. “Bam!” happens, right? And for me it was a sudden, unexpected job loss. I had spent 25 years in the healthcare technology business, in sales, in customer support implementation. Just, that was my career, and one day after working to close a pretty large piece of business for over three years, my job and the job of 500 other employees in the company I was working with was eliminated. Dr. Chuck: See ya! Bruce Pulver: “Bam!” Right?Dr. Chuck: Thanks, Bruce, for working 25 years! Have nice life, see you later, bye!Bruce Pulver: Absolutely! Dr. Chuck: Here’s the door. Bruce Pulver: That’s right! But I was raised in a family that looked at things from a gratitude perspective. Grateful for what we have, grateful for, you know, sometimes a challenge we had to come through, and a father who just loved words: crossroad puzzles, word searches, wrote plays. And the day after that lay off, I think those two influences in my life forged into an unbreakable insignment, a message. And I woke up with one word pounding in my head and I just wrote it vertically.Dr. Chuck: What was that word? Bruce Pulver: It was the word that my mother sort of instilled in me, but I never really looked at it. It was strong, “Bruce, you have to be strong”. And so the first word I just wrote that down: Stand Tall, Remain Optimistic, Now Go for it. I wrote it vertically, just looked at the letters. The second day was, “today, Bruce, will be awesome.” Well, ok, what does that mean? Wrote it vertically and immediately it became: A Wonderful Experience Shall Overwhelm My Expectations. So it started- It either started me pulling myself off by the boot straps, or it stopped me from sliding in the gutter. Chuck, I’m not sure which one of those it was. Dr. Chuck: It was a “bam!” moment, whatever it was.Bruce Pulver: But I’m glad that it did, right? And so-Dr. Chuck: So, I want you to stop for a second. So, this started a cascade of changing the way that you thought about your life events having gone through this “bam!’ circumstance. So, for our viewers who are trying to figure out, “ok, i’m going through, fill in the blank, in my life.” A financial change, a health challenge, whatever, how do I start? How do I start this process of beginning to rethink and use the words for something positive in my life? How do we do that, Bruce?Bruce Pulver: Yeah, so that’s a great question. First, for everyone listening, I want to make sure I’m very clear about this: I am a mouse in my own laboratory. I’ve not figured it out, I got days that are down in the gutter just like everybody elses. I mean, we’re human. So, this is a tool. This is a tool in my tool box that I lean towards. So, there’s a couple of things, one of them is to just focus on eliminating words that end in ” ‘nt” or “not”. I call it: “kick the can’t or untie the nots”. So a lot of times our self talk is programmed, “I’m not good enough, I’m not smart enough, I’m not prepared enough, I’m not liked enough,” whatever those things are, and that script has to be rewound, and has to be untethered a bit. So that’s the way I would start, I would say start thinking about how we’re talking to ourselves, and others, and the kind of input we’re receiving from others as a baseline.Dr. Chuck: That’s good. We’re here with Bruce Pulver. He’s a speaker, an author. He speaks to a lot of businesses, technology sales, leadership, you name it. He goes before a lot of groups and he kind of talks about these principles and how to incorporate these in your life. You can find more about this at abovethechatterourwordsmatter.com, and I think you’ll find more about Bruce there. Bruce, it’s been really good having you on this segment. I think people are going to really be encouraged by the words you say. It begins with, hopefully, before that “bam!” moment you’re already beginning to think about those, the way that you see your life events. Bruce, good having you on the show. Bruce Pulver: Thank you, great to be here. To watch a previous interview Dr. Chuck had with Bruce Pulver click the link below

Your Words Matter: An Inspirational Story About the Power of Words.

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Encouragement for Caregivers

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In this video, Dr. Chuck shares an encouraging story about a woman who found a way to still care for her husband during the pandemic when nursing homes were not allowing visitors.

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