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Freedom Friday: How An Obsession With Healthy Eating Can Become An Eating...

People with an eating disorder typically become obsessed with food, body image, and weight. The disorders can become very serious, chronic, and sometimes even life-threatening if not recognized and...

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Freedom Friday: How An Obsession With Exercising Can Become An Eating Disorder

Exercise and nutrition are foundational to good health, but extreme behaviors can be a red flag indicating unhealthy behaviors. Calories in, calories out — that’s what weight is, right? This is what...

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What’s Wrong Wednesday: Home Care Agencies Often Wrongly Deny Medicare Help...

Many home health care provider are telling their patients that Medicare can’t be used for home health care but that is incorrect. Federal law requires Medicare to pay indefinitely for home care — with...

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Freedom Friday: We’re Not Getting Out By Christmas; Deal With It!

Admiral Jim Stockdale, was the highest ranking United States military officer in the “Hanoi Hilton” prisoner-of-war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Tortured over 20 times during his...

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What’s Wrong Wednesday: Congress Makes Progress In Destroying The Americans...

Congress took significant steps in its efforts to destroy the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).  The ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (HR 620), sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), if...

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Freedom Friday: The Disability Community Condemns House Passage Of H.R. 620

The ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (HR 620), sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), passed in the US House of Representative yesterday, Thursday, February 15, 2018.  Votes: 225 Yea, 192 Nay. The bill...

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Freedom Friday: Invisible Disability Oppression And Empowerment

I am motivated to write this editorial because of an article that was written by Paula McElwee, who is the Technical Assistance Coordinator in the national independent living community. McElwee is a...

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Motivational Monday: On The Day I Die

FEBRUARY 29, 2016 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ On the day I die a lot will happen. A lot will change. The world will be busy. On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended. The...

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What’s Wrong Wednesday: I Don’t Have A Problem With Alcohol!!

“People are drinking at a level that’s putting themselves and others at risk of harm, even if they’re not necessarily meeting criteria for alcohol dependence or for the disease of alcoholism,” says Dr....

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Freedom Friday: Living The Changes Of Life With Grace

It is not the things in life we have done that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we did not do. (Randy Pausch. The Last Lecture) The wonder of life is often overlooked.  The preciousness of...

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