Health – Page 13 – Melissa Schlies

Learn: How to Recover From Your Vacation

About a month ago, my best friend and I each went away on different trips. Neither were overly adventurous, but nor were they super restful either. Then three days after we returned, we checked in over text. We were both exhausted. Our bodies were detoxing from eating food that we don’t normally eat, and we were finding it hard to readjust back to our normal lives. Through our conversation, I was reminded, that though it seems completely opposite of how things should be, sometimes: We really need a vacation after our vacation. Whether we’ve spent a whole week at a [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:14:26+00:00July 20th, 2017|Categories: Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success|Comments Off

The Courage to Stay

“We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing, and even ecstasy, but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting where we are, not where we wish we were.” —Kathleen Norris, Quotidian Mysteries Back when things were really bad, when I felt suffocated by all that my life was and all that it wasn’t, I made a plan to escape. I packed my bags and boarded a plane that took me to the other side of the country, where my aunt and friends welcomed me with open arms. I interviewed at a grad school there—because nothing [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:19:52+00:00July 10th, 2017|Categories: Courage, Health, perseverance|Comments Off

5 Things I’m doing this summer that I think You should do too!

Do you remember summertime as a kid? You know, before we got jobs or our license? On hot afternoons, we’d eat cherry red popsicles that would melt and drip down our hands and arms. We’d hang out with our friends at the beach or the pool, almost every day. We’d play tag or softball with the neighbors until it got dark and our moms made us come inside. And the sound of the ice-cream truck would send us running. Summertime, as a kid was the best. But now, we’re adults. We have jobs and schedules that at times make it [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:23:19+00:00July 3rd, 2017|Categories: Good Books, Health|Comments Off

Don’t Forget to Have Fun!

It is officially summer. We will have days at the beach or the pool. Trips to go hiking or explore new places. Time spent with friends or extended family—cooking out or sitting around a fire. And even possibly, a vacation to some place lovely. It is the time of year where everything is supposed to slow down. The hustle of winter and spring is brought down a few notches, and we can actually have— Fun. The only problem with this is that for some of us, having fun is a struggle. Not all of us can flip the switch from [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:26:42+00:00June 26th, 2017|Categories: Balance, Freedom, Health|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead June 22, 2017

A few weeks ago, my husband was given the opportunity to work remotely for a week, so that in his off hours he could work on his photography. Off to Maine we went (the perks of being a writer—I can go too!), for a week of work and adventure. When we weren’t hovered over our laptops—Tony in the kitchen of our rental, and me at the cafe down the street— we were climbing the rocky coastline of Acadia National park, breathing in the fresh salty air of the ocean, and quickly hiking up the North Bubble, for a sunset shot. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:28:34+00:00June 22nd, 2017|Categories: Balance, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

How To Make Things Work

I don’t know about you, but there is this desire within me for things to work. If I plug in a light and flip on the switch, I want the light to turn on. If I turn on my computer, and open up an application or internet browser, I want to it to run smoothly. And when we bought our car, I put the key in the ignition and expected it to turn on. I think we can all agree: The world is better when things work. But last week, I flipped the switch in our living room and a [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-18T20:29:45+00:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Balance, Health, Success|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead May 25, 2017

I am not sure if it is the spring weather, or the page I am on right now, but I can’t help but feel like I am in a season of making space. Whether cleaning out cabinets in our apartment or leaving unplanned time in my schedule—I feel like I am in a place where I need to pay attention to my life and what God may be preparing me for. And though from the outside my life may seem rather simple and uncluttered, I know there are spaces that are filled with unnecessary things. So today, I am sharing [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-19T15:55:29+00:00May 25th, 2017|Categories: Balance, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

Back to Basics

Not too long ago, I saw a news report about a house that had been built on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It was a big, beautiful house with lots of windows to take in the incredible view. When it was built, it was probably worth millions. But do you know why it was on the news? If you saw the same story on TV, you know it is because erosion has eaten away a chunk of the cliff. A good part of the house is now literally hanging over the ocean. And no one can go inside to collect [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-19T15:56:32+00:00May 22nd, 2017|Categories: Balance, discipline, Health, Success|Comments Off

What I am Learning About Healing

Often, when we or someone we know is sick or hurting, we can’t help but ask: If God can heal me/them, why doesn’t He? On Monday, I shared that I struggle with an ailment that there seems to be no definitive cure or treatment for in our medical world. On my long journey to even get a diagnosis, we have prayed many prayers, asking God to heal me the way my doctors couldn’t seem to. Through all of this, I have wondered what God’s purposes are by not healing me, even when I believe that He can. However, this is [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-19T20:28:06+00:00April 20th, 2017|Categories: Faith, Health, Hope, Learn, Love Learn Lead, perseverance|Comments Off

He Sees You

Very often, people say they don’t believe in God because there is no proof; they say that they can’t see Him so He can’t exist. Lately though, I have been wondering if the problem is not that they can’t see Him, but rather that they feel as if He can't see them. One grey morning, I drove north, up the interstate. At first, I thought I was going to be late—that I hadn’t left early enough to beat the morning traffic, and so all I could focus on was the road. Then, as I drove around the city, I could [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-19T20:29:47+00:00April 17th, 2017|Categories: Faith, Health, Hope, perseverance, Waiting|Comments Off

Learn: How to Recover From Your Vacation

The Courage to Stay

5 Things I’m doing this summer that I think You should do too!

Don’t Forget to Have Fun!

Love Learn Lead June 22, 2017

How To Make Things Work

Love Learn Lead May 25, 2017

Back to Basics

What I am Learning About Healing

He Sees You

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