Welcome to Legacy Center’s Healthy Living website.

This website explores new perspectives on total health and wellness.
The blog allows perspectives from Legacy graduates, individuals,
and professionals from a wide range of disciplines.

Submit stories about how you practice healthy living.  Professionals share about your approaches to health and wellness in your practices.  Legacy graduates share about how the Legacy Center workshops have supported your healthy living.  Anyone, share about your challenges, breakthroughs, goals, techniques and accomplishments.

Legacy Center Graduate: Children and Autism

Legacy Center Graduate:  Children and Autism In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network reported that approximately 1 in 110 children in the United States has an Autism Spectrum Disorder. This represents an increase in the prevalence of autism disorders compared to earlier in the decade when prevalence…

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How Self-Talk Affects Stress: Part I

PART I: SELF-TALK HOW SELF-TALK AFFECTS STRESS Most people carry on silent conversations with themselves during much of the day. These internal dialogues influence our thoughts, emotions and behavior. Understanding self-talk and how it affects you is the first step in learning how to rewrite your self-talk “script” resulting in a less stressful way of…

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Healing PTSD after Car Accidents

Healing PTSD after Car Accidents by Larry Burk  Do you have stress-related symptoms after a car accident or does anyone you know? Over 2 million serious accidents happen in the United States each year with up to one half resulting in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Survivors of crashes may suffer for many months with debilitating…

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Legacy Center Healthy Living Topic Osteoarthritis

Legacy Center Healthy Living Topic:  Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis is a type of arthritis that is caused by the breakdown and eventual loss of the cartilage of one or more joints. Cartilage is a protein substance that serves as a “cushion” between the bones of the joints. Osteoarthritis is also known as degenerative arthritis. Among the over…

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Dance, Health, Passion, and Legacy Center

My healthy living experience today comes from “The Abundance and Prosperity” seminar I attended at the Legacy Center about 3 years ago in which I offered to DANCE at the end of the program. I was very nervous because I have not danced in more than 10 years! Frank my spouse does not dance so…

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Legacy Center Graduate: Therapy as Mind Yoga

Ownership and Empowerment As a licensed clinical social worker, I provide counseling to adolescents, adults, families, and couples. My work is focused on meeting an individual wherever he or she may be in life and assisting them through periods of change and growth in respect to his or her life experiences.  I believe in a…

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