Tag Archives: self-help

While battling Vietnam scars, memoirist receives nearly $5,000 in city water fight

Date: May 21st, 2012, 11:00 am

While Christal Presley was uncovering her and her father’s scars from his service in Vietnam, she also ended up unearthing subterranean trouble familiar to other city of Atlanta homeowners:

Water meter problems.

Despite minimal water each month, and even in a city beset by the highest combined water and sewage bills in the country, Presley’s bills were about double her neighbors’.

To write her book and solve her water problems, she had to probe what for too long had seemed normal.

Answers came from questioning authorities – first her own father, and then the city of Atlanta. Continue reading →

Posted in Atlanta, Inspiration, Life Changes, Michelle Hiskey, Reinvention, Self-Help, Self-improvement, Transformation | Tagged Atlanta, Christal Presley, City of Atlanta, East Atlanta, life changes, Maria Saporta, memoir, Michelle Hiskey, PTSD, self-help, Thiry Days with My Father, Vietnam, watershed management | 3 Comments

Off the rollercoaster, Ben Dempsey loses 165 pounds

Date: January 30th, 2012, 7:09 pm

Ben Dempsey says of his lifelong battle against overeating,

“I had done all kinds of strange diets, like eating tofu straight for six weeks, but when I lost 30 pounds, I would gain 40. At the rate I was going, I would have weighed 420 pounds today.”

From his work in physical therapy, he knew change was possible if he could just slip that elusive mental switch. Continue reading →

Posted in Michelle Hiskey | Tagged biggest loser, diabetic, exercise, fat loss, food tracking, healthy eating, life changes, self-help, self-improvement, weight loss | 1 Comment

Atlanta Falcons, young dancers score points on sheer resolve

Date: December 26th, 2011, 4:55 pm

The work ethic and energy of the dancers from Moving in the Spirit is remarkable.

Every day they are moving against the tide of childhood obesity, too common in poorer neighborhoods. Their personal work ethic contrasts to the cheating educators in the Atlanta Public Schools, where many of these dancers learn.

Their Holiday Store helps teach them financial literacy and credit lessons that too few of us grasp.
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