This year has brought many unexpected challenges. One thing I've learned through it all is how much eating healthy and exercising greatly effects my overall mood and outlook on life. Regardless of how uncertain some situations may seem, aside from my faith, healthy living was the most powerful determinant of my overall well-being.
This simple revelation inspired me to share my experiences with my friends and family. After talking to many of my friends, I realized a lot of us were doing the same thing. We were making small changes in our lives to improve our health. Some were training for races or marathons. Other friends were cutting out certain foods. I noticed that the more we shared our experiences with other, the more we became each others' support system.
So today, I wanted to share my vision to start something in order to expand our support system. Healthy living is very challenging and everyone can benefit from more support. My vision is to get a group of my friends and family together. We will become more aware of women's health issues, challenge ourselves to create healthy habits, and support community health projects together.
The latter two parts of my vision will begin in upcoming months, but the first part begins today! Today I will begin a new tweet series with the hashtag #knowyourbody. Each month we will feature a different health issues and tweet daily facts and tips using the #knowyourbody hashtag. This month the theme will be Breast Cancer Awareness.
Anyone can follow the tweets by going to twitter.com/#knowyourbody. Also, I created a new Twitter account that is open. If you have Twitter, you can follow me @akelamarie.
Next month we'll discuss Diabetes awareness and start our first health challenge. I look forward to growing our support system of women who are challenging each other to improve their health.
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