Are you healthy, happy, energized, and passionate,
awakening each morning filled with purpose, living
to your ultimate potential each day, and feeling joy
and gratitude when your head finally rests on the
pillow at night?
If you answered this question with a resounding “YES” then all I can say to you is bravo, congratulations and continue enjoying your life. You are a rare exception and a powerful role model for others.
As a former Professor of Health and Physical Education for 25 years, I have always understood what it takes to be healthy. In fact, my popular Love Me Touch Me Heal Me book series delves into all the major areas of life: love, touch, healing, sensual aliveness, healthy sexuality and personal spiritual awareness.
Over the years, although I have always understood what it takes to be healthy, I have not always lived up to my own standards. In fact, for many years I kind of ignored what I knew about health. As an athlete, I was used to working out consistently and eating whatever I wanted, knowing I could easily lose that extra 5 lbs in just a few days.
In my 20’s I would work out about 8 hours every day, especially once I began teaching health and physical education, at first at the high school level. I needed to take dance classes – ballroom, jazz, ballet, even belly dancing – to teach the class modules. To coach the gymnastics team, I would take my gymnastics classes several times each week. And I even took several gymnastics judging courses. To coach the tennis team, I had to keep competing myself. In the afternoons and weekends, I would always play tennis, usually singles. I also played at round robin tennis social events on weekend evenings. Then I created my own tennis league on Tuesday nights, bringing my friends from Manhattan to a tennis facility in the Bronx. After that I worked for Manhattan Plaza Tennis center in the heart of NYC for awhile, organizing my own round robins.
As an athlete, having taken so many different types of physical trainings, I often had aches and pains which led me to receive and train in many different types of body awareness therapies. From shiatsu to neuromuscular, massage to rolfing, craniosacral to Reiki, Trager, Feldenkrais, Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Breathwork, Yoga, Hypnosis, Alexander Technique, Bioenergetic Analysis, and the Rubenfeld Synergy Method of talk and touch. At the same time I was often attending consciousness raising workshops and trainings as well as spiritual retreats and teachings. My mind, body and spirit were expanding and opening and there was no going back. However ….
At one point, when I was elected to the position of chair of my department, my health awareness started to go downhill. Instead of teaching all my physical activity classes and exercising with the students, I had fewer classes, sat my desk more and attended lots and lots of meetings and dealt with all sorts of paperwork. Also, at that point my husband and I were living in Connecticut. I would get up at the crack of dawn and rush to catch the Metro North commuter train into Manhattan. On the train I would read my journals and newsletters and once I arrive in the city I would often treat myself to an elaborate breakfast. I loved going to the elegant hotel attached to Grand Central Station for a breakfast fit for a king with all sorts of choices – cheeses, eggs, waffles, berries – whatever I wanted. And I would pretend to myself that I was on a vacation or attending an important meeting out of town, as I imagined the other hotel guests were doing that.
Needless to say, I gradually began putting on weight, a few pounds each year, but they added up. Although I always continued to exercise, I didn’t realize that “I could not outrun my fork”. I could not exercise enough to overcome the poor eating habits and the lack of consistent movement, sitting on the commuter train, sitting at my desk, and sitting in the taxi from Grand Central Station to my college. At one point, before taking an early retirement, I remember feeling out of breath walking up and down the stairs.
It has taken me many years and a health scare to shock myself back into that total awareness and solid commitment to achieving and maintaining my own health – and well being. In the process I have attended many live webinars such as “The Truth About Cancer” and I even attended the live event in Texas; “Betrayal – The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You About”; David Wolf’s Longevity Now Conference video clips, Dr. Daniel Amen’s “Brain Warrior Course”, Dr. Josh Axe’s “Detox Program”, and so many more. I have enjoyed the healthiest sprout centered lunch buffets at the Hippocrates Institute in West Palm Beach and tried their infra-red sauna treatment, their Hyperbaric chamber, and their breathing in glutathione process.
I could go on and on about the treatments I have received, the learning I have experienced and the wisdom I have gained. That is why I enjoy interviewing people who are helping others to live fuller and more satisfying lives. On my Healthy Baby Boomers Network Radio Show, I continue to speak with amazing survivors and thrivers, teachers and best-selling authors, men and women who are helping others to overcome physical and emotional problems and create lasting health and happy relationships.
Here are just a few of my recent radio show interviews
Every week is a revelation of another aspect of healthy and happy living
Physical Fitness
Metabolic Stimulation System to Transform Your Body and Your Health
Physical Healing
Betrayal – Autoimmune Diseases They Don’t Tell You About
Measure Exactly What Your Body Needs For Health
From Victim to Victor – Surviving Cancer and Thriving
Inspiration
Falling for the Stars – A Stunt Gal’s Tattle Tales
Out of the Darkness Into the Light – A Blind Man Leads the Way
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Hi Erica,
It’s so very easy to know the theory – but much harder to put all your knowledge into practice.
To help myself take more exercise I am currently fostering a dog 🙂 However, much as I enjoy walking him, it’s very depressing to see how few calories each “walkie” burns.
Joy – Blogging After Dark
Joy,
My goal is to walk 1000 miles in 2017. It is not easy to keep up the daily walking I need to reach that goal. Sitting at the computer and driving in my car take up a lot of my time. I have to make a definite decision to go outside to walk or to get to my health club to do a sustained workout. However, I feel so good every time I do make the effort. And it has a strong mental effect, reinforcing my belief that I do what I say I will do and that I can do it.
Warmly,
Dr. Erica
Hi Erica,
Glad to read your wonderful experience and I totally agree with your points. When we feel enjoyment in our work, you know it provide a weired energy in whole body. It always suggest to work in positive path with lot of hardworking and I think it is the best gateway to success.
Yes Dhaval,
And when we find we are not enjoying our work, we have to step back and evaluate what is going on.
Sometimes just a small change in attitude or perspective can make a huge difference
Warmly,
Dr. Erica
Hi Erica,
Love your story and especially your aha moment: “You can’t outrun your fork” haha
That’s priceless… and totally true.
Stories are such a great way to help people, and your radio interviews are a great way to bring us stories from many helping and healing people.
Kudos.
-Donna
Donna,
That is so true. And often I forget and just jump right into the content – too soon.
I love reading stories so why don’t I realize that it is so much more easily engaging.
Dr. Erica
Hello Dr Erica! I loved hearing about your story! Sounds like you had a some wonderful times! It is crazy how life just gets in the way and we forget what is important to us. Our health being one! HUH?
Happy to hear that you did indeed get back on track. I am going to bookmark this page and come back and listen in to fe of your interviews when I have more time!
Thank you so much for sharing.
Have A Super Week Ahead!
Chery :))
Hi Chery,
My story is mild. Some of the people I have interviewed on my radio show have had huge health challenges and they have conquered their fears and come out the other side.
Warmly,
Dr. Erica
Thanks for sharing your story Dr. Erica. I never thought about how many hours one would exercise if you taught physical fitness, 8 hours is amazing. I am glad you are healthy again and getting plenty of exercise. So many of us sit at a desk and get so little exercise, our society is paying for it in many ways.
Sharon,
I used to work out with each of my classes and also go to gymnastics, ballet, jazz dance classes and then go to the health club to workout with weights. Looking back, I don’t know how I had time to do all that. But then, at that time, there was no internet to eat up hours out of every day.
Warmly,
Dr. Erica