by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
“I tell women, healthy is the new sexy,” Verna Laboy, health educator for Columbia/Boone County, MO public health and human services declared. Laboy runs the Live Well By Faith program. Since heading up this program, she herself has lost 40 pounds and lowered her A1C... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
Do you ever have days when you want to just fix the world? The last month or more this desire became overwhelming because I realized I can’t fix the world and neither can anyone else. So I did what most of the world is doing now—basically the essentials plus watching... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 14, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
A few days ago I accidentally took my evening meds in the morning. I have them nicely categorized in two separate colored med planners. I stumbled out of bed, into the bathroom, grabbed the purple box and downed my meds. Then, my brain kicked in to tell me,... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose, Uncategorized
I would be dead today without the grace of Jesus changing my life. It’s a fact I cannot deny and if I had died 15 years ago, it would have been totally my fault. I’ve written about this before, but today I feel led to connect the dots between the parts of my story.... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
We are in the midst of a crisis we’ve never seen before. Everything has changed. Even our emotions have changed. We are in the midst of experiencing crisis emotions and therefore, we are in the midst of the crisis version of emotional eating. It is just another... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, Fiction, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
I discovered a prose poem I started about 10 or more years ago when I was stumbling around on my weight loss journey. Back then, I had no idea where or how all the jumbled pieces of my life would ever fit together to complete a picture worth anyone ever viewing.... 
