Healthy Happy Loving Life: My Favorite Quote Poster

16 Monday Jan 2023

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Photo and poster © Kebba Buckley Button. Wall by St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church, Scottsdale, AZ. Many more posters (free) at Pinterest.com/kebbabutton

And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Is it Spam? How to Tell!

15 Sunday Jan 2023

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Many of us get too much email every day, and too much of it is spam. Here are some examples of what not to open, no matter how curious you are. The senders’ goals are to confirm your email, collect your data, and get your money. It’s phishing! So save yourself later misery by surveying suspicious pieces without opening them.

It’s easiest to handle spam on your smart phone, looking only at the topic and the sender’s email. On an iPhone, for example, you can block a sender and see a symbol—a red circle with a diagonal line—in the flag field. You can also use your settings to have a sender deleted as soon as you have blocked them. This also prevents these spam pieces from going through to your primary email display on your laptop or desktop.

I left these few undeleted, so I could share them with you. Feel free to laugh!

First, look for prestige words like “Harvard” and “Oxford”. You’re supposed to be impressed and click quickly to open the piece. Don’t! Also note personal body- and health words like “prostate”, “breast”, and “p-nis”. [They will spell out these words, but if I do, the system will bounce this article.] If you see these, block and delete immediately.

Harvard Prostate Study. Do you see this in your water?
Micro P-nis Cure. African priest helps white man gain 6 inches
Old Eyes. Visibly erase eye bags in 7 minutes or less
School of Squirt. Make your girlfriend ecstatic!

Not sure if the title defines it as spam? Check the email address the message comes from.

Does the Sender Name have anything to do with the sender email?

Sender: EcoWatt Pro. Topic: Innovative New Tech Slashes Your Electric Bill in Half. Sender email: info@closedarise.shop
Sender: Anna. Topic: Warning Signs of Dementia (#2 is scary). Sender email: randyallen@safetywreck.shop

Impressively, this group has already hacked or “borrowed” names or subject lines from emails of people you know. This one references a group I belonged to for many years, WISK, but which no longer operates. The topic: WISK on Monday, July 18. However, without opening it, I see it says: “Please find document attachment: Please let me know if you received the document. Best Regards,…” Don’t open these! I know several ways that this is hack spam:

WISK hasn’t sent any meeting-related emails for over 5 years
WISK was run by an attorney who never attached documents to the meeting notices
The sender’s email is unlike that of anyone I knew from the group: impresao@rhotoplas.com.br

Finally, there are those who bill you $500 or more for software packages you may already own, or you may never have owned. Look at the sender’s email address! If it’s a personal email, like name@gmail.com, it’s not from Norton or Intuit. I recently received a series of emails advising me my license for a system optimizer I like had expired. Everything looked legit in the email, except it had been only several months since I had renewed my license. So I followed my best rule: contact the company directly. They replied promptly that I had renewed my license for 2 computers in August. That was close!

One of the best ways to lower your stress is to prevent it with wise choices in advance. Don’t help the spammers, scammers, and phishers get rich! Filter them out quickly and enjoy your day. And that will be you, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Want Energy? Mind Your EMFs!

12 Thursday Jan 2023

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Over the last several years, I have been disappointed to gradually learn the negative power of Electromagnetic Frequencies, or EMFs. I thought I was getting tired from watching our big-screen TV. I got more tired, the more bluetooth and wifi-driven devices my late husband installed. He loved machines and devices. That’s fine. But as the evidence rolls in, I realized I was right: too much EMF can make you tired or worse. A phone held next to your body can cause burns (my late husband had those) or cancer. So how can we be healthy and still enjoy our devices?

The image above illustrates a number of sources of EMF in the home. Study it carefully. Now what if each of those devices is broadcasting something that makes you tired? Here are some simple tips.

You can get any of these devices to stop pumping out EMF by turning them off.
Turn off the TV or any other EMF generator when you’re not using it. And hey! You’ll save electricity, too.
Use shielded covers for your phone that you love holding next to your body. A great brand is Safesleeve, but there are others.
Stop using your celphone as an alarm clock. Get a battery-powered alarm clock, and let the celphone sleep at least in the next room. The first night I did this, I woke up feeling like a new and awesome woman. I went straight to the office and easily knocked off an hour of work before breakfast. My body was comfortable and my mind was very clear. Wow!
Strengthen your biofield so your body doesn’t weaken as much in EMF fields. I will say more on this in a later article.

Take care of yourself and your family in this way, and you will notice a big uptick in wellness and pleasantness. And that will be you and yours, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress/energy management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Working Around Your Disabilities

10 Tuesday Jan 2023

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As a first-grader, I did not realize I had characteristics that looked like disabilities to others. For example, my mind went very deep into anything that interested it, to the exclusion of hearing regular classroom announcements. I could be engrossed in reading an assignment and literally not hear the teacher call my reading group. She thought I was playing games. No. Today, I celebrate my ability to go into very deep concentration. I set timers to be sure I get to the next task on time. And I am a Life Member of Mensa, the High-IQ organization that has a large population of deep concentrators. So was that really a disability? Too many brilliant people have been mistaken for idiots, because their actual abilities were not obvious to others.

I did not have the same social reflexes as other children and was puzzled by their choices. I didn’t enjoy groups. In school, I preferred independent assignments. Today we would say I had low social skills. I wanted to solve that, and eventually I overshot my goals. Over the decades, I have worked to understand others, and I am now the one with the best social skills in most rooms. People compete to get me to join their groups now, and people jockey to stand *behind* me and try to get me to take the leader position. So did I really have a social disability? Or did I simply have different social reflexes?

Thirty years ago, I was in a business networking group with a wise former police officer who had been shot in the neck. That had put him in a wheelchair, and he was now a disabilities expert and consultant. We all brainstormed about what to call his company, without using the term disabilities. Bill’s view was that he was differently abled, or simply different from the majority. Finally, Bill settled on “Abilities 360.” Today, the Ability360 (ability360.org) organization has a number of health-and-fitness locations, with wheelchair pickleball courts and multiple other sports. They offer home modification services, independent living skills instruction, and employment services, to name a few. An 80-something friend of mine, with spinal damage, now has a sports wheelchair and goes to one of these centers to happily rip around the pickleball court. His wife found an SUV that easily holds the sports wheelchair. She says her husband has come alive again after discovering Ability360.

Now consider: what if you were a kitten born with no sight? This 4 1/2 minute video charmingly illustrates the answer: using your other senses, you figure it out. You’re not DISabled, you’re differently abled.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dbUlzMXHD8

Are there characteristics you have that you wish were quite different? Are they really disabilities, or are they different abilities? What workarounds have you used to deal with those? The more you develop your end runs, the more you will be ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Haiku Poems for Peace

09 Monday Jan 2023

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Today, after a ridiculous Sunday, I really needed to go deep in my Peace Within, and I was moved to try reading haiku. In addition to my usual quotes, prayers, and meditation/s, I had the urge to listen to the idiosyncratic rhythm of the haiku. Traditionally, these brief poems are nonrhyming and have 3 lines each. Five syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third. Yes, I know there are modern variations, but I wasn’t going there today. I wanted poems that evoke peace, in that traditional rhythm.

I found these. Try reading them and see if they add to your personal peace:

When you’ve just had an upsetting experience, read this series a few times. Or write your own haiku? And that will be you, deepening your Peace Within, feeling much better, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: When Your Day is a Disaster, Go to Your Peace Within

08 Sunday Jan 2023

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Today went not-according-to-plan, and I seriously needed to touch in with my Peace Within. My Sunday morning was wonderful, as always, with prayer outside, breakfast inside, and church on TV. I cleaned the kitchen and ran the dishwasher, planning my article for today’s Blog Challenge. After lunch, I rested awhile. Then I went to visit friends, to synch up software and equipment for taking payments at an upcoming event. We accomplished the synching– yay!

Then they asked if I could help with a laptop issue. What I thought would be a 5-minute thing turned into a 90-minute thing. The laptop was totally drained, its mouse was lost/found/paired up/totally drained, and all passwords were forgotten or lost. When I wrapped that up, the laptop was charged up, the mouse was located and working, the email was working on the laptop, and my friends knew what to do to pull off a zoom telemedicine visit with their doctor. Honestly, I was a bit fried from 3 hours of concentrating, and I was worried about writing my article and completing some other needed work. But my friends wanted to buy me dinner, to thank me. We thought we would swing by a favorite place and have a lovely meal.

At the restaurant, everything went wrong that could, and it became an unpleasant disaster. Service was inexplicably slow. My first glass of wine tasted like water had been added. My friend’s Tito’s-and-sevenup was not. My ribs were so dry they were inedible; I sent them back, but the manager said “we all tasted them, and they were fine, so no discount will be given.” That’s a $40 dish. So I got no substitute, no dinner, and the manager wanted my friends to pay for the dish. There were several other things very wrong, and the manager simply said well, she was “sorry everything was horrible for you guys, but no discounts will be given, so that’s it.” At one point, my friends said, “wrong answer, Lady!” My friends told me to go on, while they waited for the police. Thank God, no one was waving a gun.

As I left, I began praying for peace over the whole situation. Number one, after praying, in horribly tense situations is to go within and be in touch with your personal peace, your Peace Within. Only from that base can you decide what to do. Once home, I literally opened a copy of my book, Inspirations for Peace Within, and flipped to this quote by the late monk Thich Nhat Hanh:

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We only need to be awake, alive in the present moment.

When you’ve just had an upsetting experience, fill your moments, not with thoughts of the experience, but thoughts of peace, joy, and serenity. It’s an advanced practice, but it’s worth trying and trying again. Do this when needed, and you will be ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Let Your Mind Travel

08 Saturday Jan 2022

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We can actually get stressed out from simply thinking the same kinds of thoughts, day after day and month after month. It can be boring. Plus, we can wear a kind of groove/s in our brains, from lack of novelty. Picture a dirt bicycle path, that countless bicyclists have worn down.

So many people think, “I need a change of scene!” And they think of traveling. But in the last 2 years, travel has not been as simple as plan-reserve-go. So, what if you let your mind travel? That’s what I do! I get curious about an area of the Planet, and I watch videos about that. Of course, a simple way to video travel is to watch the brilliant films of theme travellers, like Anthony Bourdain (food, cooking), Rick Steves (lifestyles of regular people) and Robin Leach (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous). If you love boating, there are a few video series about yachts, yacht crews, and superyachts.

But there is another category of traveling with your mind: watching quality dramas with a strong sense of place. A few of my favorites are on Prime Video, Acorn TV, and Britbox (overlapping services):

Bergerac. British TV from 1981-1991. Set on the Isle of Jersey, between Britain and France. Intrigue, good characters, complete exploration of Jersey, and a chance to practice your French a bit. Travel and time travel all at once! Star: Jim Bergerac played by John Nettles, who went on to play Inspector Tom Barnaby in Midsomer Murders.
Pie in the Sky. British mystery/cookery series from 1994-1997. Set in a fictitious area that could be south of London, features a police inspector who would rather have a restaurant. Settings vary, and you get to visit the English countryside, French cookery, and some lovely manor houses.
Midsomer Murders. British drama series from 1997-Present. Starred John Nettles for the first 13 years. With strong characters and plots, it is filmed in the most beautiful areas of chocolate-box English villages. Midsomer remains one of the most popular and re-watched drama series of all time.
Whitstable Pearl. British drama series from 2021, with 2022 in production. Filmed in and around the oyster town of Whitstable, on the southeast coast of England. You meet compelling characters, including the ex-policewoman-restaurant-owner Pearl Nolan, who helps the current detective, Mike McGuire, solve all levels of crimes, with her keen powers of observation and her deep local knowledge. You also get to spend a lot of time on the beach and in different boats and on jet skis.
My Life is Murder. A New Zealand production (Season 2, 2021) that filmed Season 1 (2019) in Melbourne, Australia. Stars the radiant Lucy Lawless (you remember, Xena Warrior Princess?) as a former police investigator. Her husband dies, she quits the Force, and the Force keeps asking her to consult and solve. This series portrays cheerful, sunny days, in Sydney and in Auckland, with charming coastal cafés, attractive characters, clever reparte’, and plenty of time to make one’s own bread.

I have other favorites, but this article would get much too long. The point is this: I love to travel by simply letting my mind travel, watching the scenery and accents go by in these productions. Why not blow some fresh sea air or cottage views through your brain? Pick something from another place—and time?—and travel mentally—with your phone off. And you’ll be refreshed, plus more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: We Can’t Look Backward and Forward At Once

07 Friday Jan 2022

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Kebba and Ron 2020

I have been wending my way along the path of widowhood for 5 months now. It seems new every day. Fortunately, I am well aware that every widow’s path is different. We must each make our own path and find our own way–as with life in general. I am blessed to have amazing friends, neighbors, co-Board members, church friends, Shrine friends, and all the couples Ron was friends with, going back many years.

My husband, Ron Button, was a very brilliant and full-hearted person. I met him over 30 years ago, at a party I didn’t want to go to. I love to stay home and be quiet. But, prevaricating about going to the party, I was suddenly moved to look up and ask, “What do You think?” I instantly heard these words: “You will go. You will get dressed, you will look cute, you will meet interesting people.” Oh my! I was very shocked to hear words from Heaven. I had had inspirations from Above many times, but a specific verbal opinion–never! So I quickly got dressed and went to the party. And there, across the barbecue area, was a gorgeous man I had never seen before. I found out his name was Ron.

Eighteen years later, Ron asked me out, and within 3 weeks, we knew we were meant for each other. We knew God was our matchmaker. We made the most of the next 15 years. Unfortunately, Ron’s health failed over the last 2 years, and he passed in hospice August 1st. I miss him.

Now you may think I feel sorry for myself, or that I should. I am definitely feeling grief, in pulses. I feel painful compassion for Ron’s uncomfortable illness and unclarity. But that pain was in the Past. I have to steer myself around to look at the Now, rather than the Past. We cannot look at the Past and at the Future at the same time. I have to be grateful–starts with the same letter as “God”– that Ron is released now. He is no longer in pain. He will never have more doctor visits or procedures. He is free! When Ron was here, we used to make up children’s songs and bounce around in a circle, when we had a thing to celebrate: “weeeee sold the houuuuuuse!” Within hours of his passing, Ron’s voice came to me in the living room: “Wheeeee! I’m freeeee! I’m freeeee!” Joy!

For Ron, I am so glad he is released. For me, I don’t want to skip any part of my grief process and end up with impacted emotions and health issues down the road. But I get to keep turning back to the path ahead. I do my best to keep my focus on the Present, with an eye to what God and I are co-creating for the Future. That’s where my life is now.

Keep in mind that it is impossible to look back and look forward at exactly the same moment, and you’ll spend more time celebrating the Present with an eye to the Future you want. And that’s you, increasingly more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Less News for Better Mood

06 Thursday Jan 2022

Posted by Kebba Buckley Button in Effective Living, joy, joyful, Kebba Buckley Button, stress, the life you want, too much news

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Some days, it’s easy to get too much news. Local news tells us how many people had pandemic issues, home invasions, drive-by shootings, violent attacks, house fires and financial violence by fraud. National news tells us how bad the backgrounds of key candidates are, how bad pandemic issues are, how many lost their homes in natural disasters, and how unbalanced the national budget is. International news tells us countless stories of unrest, pandemic, famine, oppression, and war in many countries. How do you feel after taking in a half hour of this? Probably not joyful and energized. Don’t you feel stressed, concerned, possibly discouraged?

According to 2020 stats, the average American watches about 3.2 hours of TV per day. Twenty-two percent are regularly watching cable news and 35% never watch cable news. More people are watching streaming news services. Or simply tuning out.

So how much bad news are you taking in? And how stressed is it making you feel? Dr. Andrew Weil is a famed integrative medical doctor and author. He recommends, for overall stress reduction, that we all take a “media break” or “news fast” as much as possible, for week. Dr. Weil says research shows that emotional content of news can bring moods down and increase sadness and depression. Why not try a news fast, and find out how you feel?

You can also use good news to lift your spirits and metabolism. I once got a cluster example of this effect. On August 11, 2011, the Arizona Republic ran a 3-sentence news item, enticingly entitled “Navy Destroyer is Now Serving as Artificial Reef”. I got very excited about this. I love good news, and here was a story of both repurposing a giant structure and helping the world’s degrading reefs and related biosystems. My face broke into a huge smile, my head bent closer to the paper, and my heart was racing. The article reported the 563-foot destroyer was now sunk “in a spot in the Del-Jersey-Land reef created by Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey.” (Hey, if you were the Navy, where would you store a huge ship that could no longer serve afloat?) Since I spent my public school years in Delaware, I was pleasantly jolted to hear there was now a tri-state effort to rebuild the reefs and protect the coasts. I copied the whole 3-sentence article into email and sent it to my mother and my sister, who also spent a lot of time in Delaware.

There ensued a merry exchange. My sister started searching “artificial reef photos” and came up with some extremely beautiful scenes. [You can put “artificial reef photos” in your favorite search bar and see some stunning examples.] I kept thinking about the metal-eating bacteria that are breaking down the Titanic hull. Experts have said we need to study the Titanic now, while it still exists. Following the search links, we discovered that a creature called a “soap fish” now makes its home in one reef, in what was once the barrel of a military tank’s gun. We also discovered there are reef-loving fish called “tasselated blennies”. [See a colorful blenny above.]

While you may not find this particular item fascinating, how did you feel while reading it? Did you feel different than you felt when reading about the last airline disaster or the Pandemic? Were you aware of feeling pleased, or even less stressed?

If too much news is stressing you out, why not try reducing the amount you take in? If you love the morning newspaper, why not try reading the entertainment news and comics first, then only scanning the headlines? Notice your stress level going down and your happiness level going up. The news will wait. Your life doesn’t have to. Go on a news diet, and you will increasingly find yourself being more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm! You have only your discomforts to lose, and I would love to help you on your journey.

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Trees Don’t Judge

05 Wednesday Jan 2022

Posted by Kebba Buckley Button in Effective Living, joy, joyful, Kebba Buckley Button, stress, the life you want, who we are called to be, who we are meant to be, who we really are, your true nature

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Life is easier in many ways, as we gradually realize more and more who we really are. As we grow, we can step more and more into who we are meant to be, even who we are called to be. If you are trying to narrow the field of possibilities, to realize your true nature, it may help to look first at what doesn’t work for you. For example, my voice can’t sustain notes. I am clearly not called to sing. That means I will never be a rock star! But my speaking voice is good, and I speak well. I am definitely called to be a speaker, inspirer, uplifter. If you are working this question of your “who-ness”, it may help you to spend quiet time with your notes, perhaps meditating in your large chair, or in a natural setting. Counselors have interest tests they can administer for you, but you may not need those. Simply begin noticing and jotting notes on what catches your interest, and what generates joy for you.

Now, while you are exploring your true nature, you may get a lot of feedback from others. As you have no doubt noticed, humans have opinions about everything! And they are busy sharing their opinions, about everything each of us does or says or is. In my life as a manager in science/technical organizations, I was amazed by the amount of gossip and presuming. Recently, I found this amazing poem on the Internet. I tracked down the poet, Becky Hemsley, and obtained her gracious permission to use the poem. Becky lives in Leicester, UK, but you can get her book of poetry from Amazon. Look for “Talking to the Wild.” Now, see if this sounds familiar:

She sat at the back and they said she was shy,
She led from the front and they hated her pride,
They asked her advice and then questioned her guidance,
They branded her loud, then were shocked by her silence,
When she shared no ambition they said it was sad,
So she told them her dreams and they said she was mad,
They told her they’d listen, then covered their ears,
And gave her a hug while they laughed at her fears,
And she listened to all of it thinking she should,
Be the girl they told her to be best as she could,
But one day she asked what was best for herself,
Instead of trying to please everyone else,
So she walked to the forest and stood with the trees,
She heard the wind whisper and dance with the leaves,
She spoke to the willow, the elm and the pine,
And she told them what she’d been told time after time,
She told them she felt she was never enough,
She was either too little or far far too much,
Too loud or too quiet, too fierce or too weak,
Too wise or too foolish, too bold or too meek,
Then she found a small clearing surrounded by firs,
And she stopped…and she heard what the trees said to her,
And she sat there for hours not wanting to leave,
For the forest said nothing, it just let her breathe.

So always remember, as you walk your personal path, that humans love to have opinions. But the trees don’t judge. Your meditation chair doesn’t judge. Your journal doesn’t judge. So pursue your true self and your true path anyway! And you will increasingly find yourself being more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm! You have only your discomforts to lose, and I would love to help you on your journey.

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: My Favorite Quote Poster

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Is it Spam? How to Tell!

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Want Energy? Mind Your EMFs!

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Working Around Your Disabilities

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Haiku Poems for Peace

Healthy Happy Loving Life: When Your Day is a Disaster, Go to Your Peace Within

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Let Your Mind Travel

Healthy Happy Loving Life: We Can’t Look Backward and Forward At Once

Healthy Happy Loving Life: Less News for Better Mood

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