Our contributor:
Michele Howe
Author/Writer
Michele
Howe is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, FaithfulReader.com, Aspiring Retail and has published
over 900 articles/reviews. She works as a manuscript critique editor for the
Christian Communicator and writes on women's health issues for the Toledo
Free Press, CatholicMom.com, Radiant, Monore Journal, CBN.com, Radiant, Godly Businesswoman, Women of
Faith, and Esprit.
Howe has also published eight books for women
including:
Going It Alone: Meeting the Challenges of Being a Single Mom,
Prayers for Homeschool Moms,
Prayers for New and Expecting Moms,
Prayers of Comfort and Strength,
Prayers to Nourish a Woman's Heart,
Successful Single Moms, and
Pilgrim Prayers for Single Mothers.
Michele Howe
734.242.5250
jhowe@toast.net
Articles & Tips About Health for Single Moms
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twice monthly advice from our regular contributor Michele Howe
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Tips about finance to things that matter
to all Single Mothers.
Mothering Through Mid-Life: When Disengagement Entices
- by
Michele Howe
- I had just gotten up and admittedly wasn't quite
fully awake when my
husband soberly informed me that our eighteen-year-old daughter's car had
been vandalized during the night. I stood there in the chilly kitchen trying
to take in the specific details of the minor crime...worst was the insulting
graffiti written on her windows. A myriad of conflicting thoughts and
emotions ran like a freight train through my brain, some of which I am
ashamed to confess were of the reprisal sort.
Top Ten Exercise and Training Related Mistakes Of Women Over 35
- by
Michele Howe
- Trainer Maryellen Jordan, owner of Positively Fit, makes the following
observations regarding general oversights women over the age of thirty-five
make in regard to exercising and training most efficiently.
Top Ten Dermatological Mistakes Of Women Over 35
- by
Michele Howe
- Dr. John Anders of Anders Medical Corp. has compiled what he considers to
be the top ten oversights women over the age of thirty-five routinely make
in regard to maintaining the health of their skin, hair, and nails.
Top Ten Dental Health Mistakes Of Women Over 35
- by
Michele Howe
- According to Dr. Peter Urbanik at Brookview Dental in Sylvania, Ohio, women
over the age of thirty-five can make similar missteps in caring for their
dental health. Dr. Urbanik cites the following list of mistakes as those he
routinely sees during the course of his practice.
Women and Mid-Life Depression Triggers: It Can Happen On the Road to
Recovery - by
Michele Howe
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Caught unawares, women may be temporarily blindsided by unforeseen "mid-life
triggers" leading to depression. In the course of his practice, orthopedic
surgeon, Dr. Christopher A. Foetisch, Toledo, OH, has noticed that mid-life
women sometimes enter his office already depleted by life's stresses and
then surgery tips them over the edge and while this may occur in only 5-10%
of female patients, for these women the onset of depression is emotionally
devastating and completely unexpected. Understandably, some of the most
telling signs that a woman might not be able to handle the stress of surgery
must be self-assessed (consider both positive and negative life changes,
shifts in health, financial and relational upsets), thus it is imperative
that women are self-aware of their current emotional posture when they enter
a physician's office.
Women and
Elective Surgery: Essential Information for a Trauma-Free Recovery
- by Michele Howe
- For any woman choosing to undergo elective surgery, sensible planning is
only one aspect of overall readiness. In order to be most effectively
prepared, the decisions a woman makes subsequent to her surgery date and in
the days immediately following will profoundly affect the overall quality of
her recovery. According to Dr. Christopher A. Foetisch, an orthopedic
surgeon who performs over 500 surgeries each year at Flower Hospital, it has
been his experience that one of the first missteps some women make
post-surgery is that they resist taking essential pain medications by
wrongly accepting a self-imposed stigma equating medication with weakness,
thereby compounding unnecessary pain upon an already stressed and impaired
body.
