Doctor MaryJayne on Wellness

Are You Masking Bad Breathing Habits?

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Category: Living Wellness

Written by Dr MaryJayne

These past several weeks and months, the idea of mask wearing has been getting A LOT of attention.

This blog isn’t intended to weigh in on the debate. It IS intended to discuss (again) a better breathing technique that will make mask wearing easier, even while exercising and will also help boost your immune system when you’re not wearing a mask.

And guess what? It’s NOT a new blog. In fact, I’m actually going to repost an old blog and discuss it as it pertains to mask wearing and the current pandemic.

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Ready to Reappear?

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Category: Living Wellness

Written by Dr MaryJayne

Hellooo out there!

How are you feeling? Have you begun to creep out from wherever you’ve been distancing? Have you peeked out and considered crawling back?

I’ve thought often about this blog and all of the commentaries I’ve read, hoping to come up with something that would speak to the situation we find ourselves in; surreal, ever-changing yet ever unremitting.

I thought and thought. And I remembered a poem that has always spoken to me and seems to fit what we seem to be going through.

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Metamorphosis

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Category: Mindfulness

Written by Dr MaryJayne

What are you doing right now? Checking emails? Having a bite to eat? Wondering what the next hour or day or week or month might bring?

On the other hand…

What are you being right now? Anxious? Frustrated? Annoyed?
Or
Kind? Grateful? Empathetic? Generous? Calm?

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Social Distancing – Not Social Discarding

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Category: Wellness & Disease Management

Written by Dr MaryJayne

Hello Friends,

In my last blog, I talked about wellness behaviors to help get us through this period of Social Distancing and Self Quarantine.  We now find ourselves at a place in time, in which Social Distancing is no longer a foreign concept, but a way of life, a way to live, and a way to save lives.

“We separate now so we can be together later” Brian Williams

I know we’re all doing the best we can do.

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Dr. MJ’s Top 10 Ways of Wellness When You’re Self-Quarantined

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Category: Wellness & Disease Management

Written by Dr MaryJayne

I imagine this is one of MANY emails you’ve received about COVID-19 and precautionary measures. We all know the script: Wash hands with soap often for at least 20 seconds. Use sanitizer when soap and water are not available. Cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze and dispose of the tissue appropriately.  I’m sure you’ve seen these and more and I encourage you to be part of the solution to curb this pandemic.

I advocate social distancing in order to help prevent catching the disease but also to support our communities as they try to manage the contamination rate of this virus. 

If you’re reading this, I suspect that health and wellness is important to you and you are fairly active but doing your best to comply with the CDC’s recommendations. 

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Begin Now

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Category: Dr. MJ's Reflections

Written by Dr MaryJayne

I’m writing this message in January because that’s what we do in January. We (especially those of us in the fitness/wellness industry) like to seize the moment in the new year when everyone is thinking about making sweeping life changes, to teach everyone about goal setting.

Not terribly exciting – I agree.

What I’d like to talk about instead is the idea of personal growth.

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