Author: Julia Jaeger
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How big is your “WHY”?
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Your “WHY” has to be bigger than the discomfort you experience to achieve your “WHY”! That felt really profound to me. Your desire for good health has to be bigger than your desire to take it easy. Your desire to be fit has to be bigger than your desire to…
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Creativity versus Anxiety
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I have heard recently about a connection between creativity and anxiety. Anxiety seems to stifle creativity and creativity can help dampen anxiety. It feels like a chicken/egg situation. I have spent the last few months trying to notice how this plays out for me. I am a logical problem-solving person…
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Creating opportunity for connection…
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Creating an opportunity for connection could include being transparent and authentic in what we post on social media. There can be too much disconnection, both physically and emotionally, in today’s online world. But what if we used this for good? There is a great opportunity to connect with people and…
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The seen versus the unseen…
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While I was working on my Bible study this week, a question that I was answering made me think of the following verse: 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV)So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is…
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It’s One Test…on Two Days!
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As home-school moms, this can be a hard time of year. There is the ridiculously long month of February (not really, but in homeschooling it feels extra long). Then we face the standardized test situation. In the state of Minnesota, we are required to have our home-schooled children take a…
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One size doesn’t fit all….and one curriculum doesn’t work for every child!
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Unless it is Teaching Textbooks! That curriculum was the only one that was used by all of my children with different skill levels and struggles. God did not create robots. He did not give us the ability to clone our kids. Each one is a different combination of the genetics…
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Good health comes at a cost…but so does bad health!
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Healthcare is not “free”. Whether you are paying for a doctor or surgeon or cancer treatment now or in the future. Whether you have great insurance or health care sharing for the self-employed. Maybe you are spending money on improving your overall health now, but staying healthy in a “fallen”…
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It might be my fight….but it is not my war!
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I have been thinking a lot about the battle in the physical, but also in the spiritual. Let’s not forget about the constant battlefield of the mind. I have been studying Revelation 17 & 18 the past couple of weeks with my online Bible Study Fellowship group. Lots of questions…
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Learn to listen….to your body!
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I recently did a 3-day nutritionally-supplemented fast….and my body had issues with it! My insides went crazy yesterday, and by lunch today I had an insane migraine and severe nausea! I think it is always good to try something that could be healthy as a rule….but is not necessarily healthy…
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It might not be in your head…maybe it’s in your gut?
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I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about gut health. When it comes to anxiety, how people/doctors tell you “It’s all in your head”…. but is it? It feels like a chicken/egg scenario. Does your stomach hurt from anxiety, or does anxiety cause your stomach to hurt?…
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Here I am…
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This blog has been part of my to-do list for 7+ years. A big move and life changes and I thought that I would share them with you. The reality is that I got consumed with figuring out the “right” way to blog and the need to figure it out…