Mar 25, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Suzy Fielders “This too shall pass.” This infamous Persian adage is an important mantra to keep in mind during challenging times. It has helped me through so many difficult situations or experiences. That, and learning how to use this mantra to...
Mar 24, 2020 | Health, Parenting & Family, Recreation, Safety, Teens & Tweens, Travel & Auto Tips, Tweens & Teens, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Suzanne Sarfert Greenbriar Driving Academy owners, Heather and Nathan Bagg, are committed to providing the highest ethical and educational standards for an in-depth driving program. As parents to three children under the age of 16, Nathan and Heather...
Mar 16, 2020 | By Stage, Crafts & Hobbies, Elementary Age, Health, High Point, Hot Topics, Kernersville, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Recreation, Safety, Toddlers & Preschool, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Carrie Sockwell, author of Our Carolina Home Over the past week, the effects of COVID-19 have taken a toll on all of us one way or another. Then the closing of schools and daycares left many wondering what we’re going to do for the two or...
Mar 13, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Tara Pitts My family and I once had an unexpected opportunity to witness amazing goodness. It began when I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. As a busy mother of two young daughters, I had popped into my primary care physician’s office to...
Mar 11, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Safety, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Sandie Mauk author of TreasureSeeker blog National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 So it took me four weeks to get up the courage to ask my daughter, Grace, if she had left a note when she tried to kill herself. I’d been too afraid to find...
Mar 7, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Health, Hot Topics, Safety
By Guest Bloggers Angela Smith and Meredith Shaw, School Psychologists with WSFCS It seems like everywhere we go people are talking about COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Working in the schools, we not only hear teachers, parents, and guardians talking about the virus, we also...
Feb 29, 2020 | Children with Special Needs, Children's Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Christina Holder It’s official. It’s hand-sanitizer season. I mean, every season is hand-sanitizer season, but I buy it in bulk November through April. My kids are always catching something. For instance my youngest has RSV as I sit and write this! If...
Feb 13, 2020 | By Stage, Children's Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Safety, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Anonymous I think we’ll all agree that, if your phone rings or buzzes after a certain hour, it’s 99% a guarantee that it’s not going to be a pleasant conversation – especially if you have kids who drive. If you’re lucky, it will be their number coming across...
Feb 11, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Wellness, Greensboro, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Juanyetta Beasley, DHA, RN-CNML Nursing Director, Neonatal ICU The Cone Health Women’s & Children’s Center at Moses Cone Hospital opens Sunday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 a.m. Hospitals construct new buildings all the time, but Cone Health has very...
Feb 10, 2020 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Just for Dads, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Rob Ainbinder When my wife passed away on August 22, 2019, from Glioblastoma multiforme (a fancy name for brain cancer), my life and my daughter’s were changed forever. We were no longer an intact, two-parent family with one child. I was, with some...
Feb 8, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Health, Winston-Salem
— Win a Pack of 7 Rides from CycleBar Winston-Salem! Over the next two weeks, CycleBar wants to give you the opportunity to come ride with them in the event you have been interested or if you are already a valued guest. To register for this prize, complete the...
Feb 7, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Health, Just for Dads, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Christine Murray, PhD, LPC, LMFT, Director of the Healthy Relationships Initiative Domestic violence. Child abuse. Natural disasters. As we’ve become more aware of the impacts of these and other traumatic experiences on people throughout their lives,...
Feb 1, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Burlington, Children's Health & Wellness, Featured Directories, Greensboro, Health, Helpful Lists & Directories, High Point, Kernersville, Local Resources, Parent & Child Groups / Support Groups, Winston-Salem
Updated by Laura Simon You never know when you will need to rely on a support group. Whether you (or your child) are facing a new challenge or a stressful life change or are just looking for new contacts – there are a million reasons why support groups can be...
Jan 27, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Rebecca Subbiah, RDN Life can be so very hectic these days with work, caring for kids, after work and school activities and trying to juggle it all. Often taking care of ourselves both physically and mentally can go on the back burner. We are very...
Jan 25, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Wellness, Health
Enter to win a $100 gift card that can be used toward anything at the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina including membership, youth sports, swim lessons, boot camps, personal training and more! To register for this giveaway, click the link below. Now when you join the...
Jan 24, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Safety
By Guest Blogger Dennette Bailey Recently Andrew Yang’s wife, Evelyn Yang, was in the media describing a rape she endured by her OB/GYN during a doctor’s visit. When I saw her story it made me wonder how many people may have suffered sexual abuse at the hand of their...
Jan 15, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Children's Health & Wellness, Elementary Age, Elementary Age Directories, Helpful Lists & Directories, High Point, Hot Topics, Local Resources, Recreation, Sports
Updated by Katie Moosbrugger Ready to sign your child up for a sport, riding lessons or karate class? Start here! We have added a ton of options to this directory from years past, and we also reorganized our list so it’s easier to search for programs by sport...
Jan 1, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Tracy Huneycutt “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot I turned 40 this past year. It was a welcome decade to enter. My 20s were spent learning about myself and creating new experiences with friends. The entire decade of...
Dec 31, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Jennifer Hurst, Certified Health and Wellness Coach Are you frustrated from feeling tired all the time, drained of energy, suffering from achy joints, mood swings, virtually no libido, irregular periods, and weight that just doesn’t seem to budge,...
Dec 27, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Health
By Guest Blogger Kristen Bagwell The vast majority of women who have breast augmentation surgery have positive, healthy results. However, there’s a growing population of women experiencing adverse effects, including a rare type of cancer – that seem to be...
Dec 18, 2019 | Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Developmental Concerns, Food & Nutrition, Food Allergies / Diets / Restrictions, Health
By Guest Blogger Rebecca Jordan Ever been on a diet? Yeah, most of us have, so hearing someone’s on a diet doesn’t really surprise most of us. But here’s one that may surprise you – my thirteen month old has been on a diet since she was eight days old. Two days...
Dec 14, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Anna Keller I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the all things I enjoy and how many of them just don’t fit into my life at the moment. At first, I gave myself a hard time about that, challenging myself to find time to squeeze everything in, but after a while I...
Dec 11, 2019 | Babies, By Stage, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Developmental Concerns, Health
By Guest Blogger Brandi Blaylock Every smile has a story. Stories of happiness, joy, peace, and understanding. This story is no exception. While lying on the examination table with the chilly and sticky conducting jelly on my belly at my 20 week ultrasound, I had one...
Nov 30, 2019 | Children's Health & Wellness, Health
By Angela Smith and Kathleen Kirk There is a dirty little secret at your child’s school, but we know it all too well. When we were asked to write this blog, we considered being anonymous authors. If we used our names, what would our friends think? Would they ever let...
Nov 23, 2019 | Bereavement, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By Felicity Lewis There will inevitably come a time when you, as an adult need to attend a funeral. As hard as funerals can be for us as adults, we are occasionally faced with a difficult decision—do I bring my child to the funeral of a deceased loved one. There’s...
Nov 8, 2019 | Children's Health & Wellness, Health, Local Resources, Non Profits, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Safety, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Elizabeth Miller, Executive Director at The Parenting PATH Raising children can be very tough! All moms know this. And it can be especially tough when parents face additional challenges with employment, housing, transportation, healthcare or...
Nov 5, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Wendy Bartlett I have done it. I have lost weight and kept it off for 8 months. How? I used the app called Noom. You may have seen it on Facebook or heard about it on NPR. I saw it on Facebook, and on December 31, 2018, I was on my way home from...
Nov 3, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Health, Winston-Salem
— Win a FREE 10 class punch card (a $125 value with a 6 month expiration) from Jazzercise Winston-Salem Fitness Center! Finding an exercise program that works and we can stick to is one thing we all have struggled with. Staying dedicated to a workout program...
Oct 30, 2019 | By Stage, Health, Parenting & Family, Safety, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Marybeth Barrett Do you want some not so fun facts? Car crashes end more teen lives than cancer, homicide and suicide Council EVERY single day, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Yup. That caught my attention, too. Car crashes are the...
Oct 28, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Jennifer Sharpe June 4, 2017 started out just like any other normal day. I had been having severe stomach pains for a couple of months and after ruling out a few things, my doctor was convinced I had gallstones. Because there was no sense of urgency,...
