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Motivate and Empower Yourself with a Life Coach

Are you ready to make real and positive changes in your life? Are you ready to overcome self-limiting behaviors that have held you back from reaching your goals? Often someone who will help you keep on track is beneficial.

For the last 10 years Lisa Rivera made a difference in people’s lives as a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, but she also used this knowledge to make a difference in her own life. Once morbidly obese, in order to make her physical change possible and successful, she knew she first had to change her mental and emotional thought patterns. The success she achieved combined with her natural desire to help others led her into a new direction as a life coach.

“A life coach will help motivate and empower you to create the life you have always wanted for yourself through working on your overall balance of mind, body, spirit and heart,” says Rivera. “Each component is an important factor to achieving higher and sustained levels of balance, health and happiness in life.”

Rivera knows first hand that with hard work, dedication and guidance along the way, change is possible. As a life coach she is confident that everyone is capable of achieving their highest potential.

For more information, join Coach Lisa on Mondays from 3-7pm for an open question line about the coaching process. To schedule a free initial consultation, please contact her at 908-967-8997 or [email protected].

News Briefs
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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