FOCUS ON YOUR HEALTH - Magnesium Glycinate Supplement

 As we begin the year 2025, it is with enthusiasm for life, health,  productivity and financial freedom.  As we continue on our journey of HEALING, EMPOWERMENT AND RESTORATION, we increase in wisdom and age and our health begins to get our attention as our body goes through changes.

We have researched and partnered with specialists in the areas of the nutrients, vitamins and overall enhancements that can assist and aid our bodies in the transformation that comes with age.  

As a 5 year dialysis patient and almost two year kidney transplant recipient and survivor, I have learned a lot about my body - the human body and the importance of certain vitamins, nutrients, physical and mental health. GOD KEPT ME and helped me to learn the importance of  self care and this knowledge; these are some things that 

have kept me alive, productive and positive throughout that very trying 5 years.

After my successful kidney transplant, my magnesium and potassium were both dangerously low.  I was admitted back into the hospital 3 times to receive both intravenously.  The potassium was fine after the first 4 hour drip, but the magnesium needed an 8 hour drip weekly for the first month.

After my investigation (you have lots of time on your hands when recovering) I came to understand that there are different types of magnesium.  They were giving me Mag OXIDE which is not easily absorbed by the body.  It goes straight through you.  

Magnesium with Glycinate maximizes the absorption process giving your body maximum benefits of the magnesium.

This is the first of a series of posts that we will share to provide information about some of these nutrients and their benefits.  We will begin with 

Magnesium Glycinate Supplement

Benefits of Magnesium Glycinate  (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MAGNESIUM OXITE ORATATE,  TURATE OR SULFATE)

• 1.      Glycinate provides better absorption
• 2.      Gentle on the stomach. Non-laxative effect
• 3.      Improves insomnia and promotes relaxation
• 4.      Regulates blood pressure and calcium absorption
• 5.      Increase Blood Sugar levels
• 6.      Reduces stress
• 7.      Regulates the body’s nervous system an insulin sensitivity
• 8.      Aids in Weightloss

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Starting New Beginnings that will Never End

As we move into a new period in 2025 we will not merely survive, but we will surely Thrive.

Surviving is out. Thriving is in. We're starting new beginnings that will never end.

Many of you have been with me since I started HER back in 2009.  You’ve followed and read my blog with its diverse entries ranging from politics, to social, health and employment disparities and beyond.  We have covered a lot of ground and survived many ups and downs over the years.  That is because the JOURNEY to HEALING EMPOWERMENT AND RESTORATION is a never ending, on-going rollercoaster ride of excitement and adventure during which you learn lessons and subsequently learn how to use those lessons to make better decisions and improve our lives. 

When I planted the seed in 2009, I had no idea that the organization would be known worldwide.  It really didn’t hit me until we were approached to join a global movement for MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS.

We continue our focus on information and resources for Healing, Empowerment and Restoration with an emphasis on Mental Health as we gear up for Mental Health Awareness Day on May 15, 2025.

PREPARING FOR THE RE-LAUNCH

As I embark on re-launching HER podcast, I needed to go back to the beginning.  It's been 15 years since I began this journey of Healing, Empowerment and Restoration but somehow I feel that the journey has just begun.

Grief.  My journey started with grief.  Most often when we think of grief, we associated it with death of a loved one and that is right where my grief began...with the death of my mom in 2005.   Since then I've learned a lot about grief including that any type of loss brings grief.  That year I experienced 3 losses - loss of a loved one, loss of a marriage and loss of a job. So I was REALLY grieving and boy o by was I a basket case. Maybe I should have said 4 losses because in the midst of everything I lost myself.

For 16 years I had played the role of wife and mother.  I was very young when I married - 23 with an 18 month old daughter whom I loved more than life itself.  I was determined to be the mom that I always wanted and to give my children the family life that I always craved.  I immersed myself into being the best wift and mommy ever

 I thought I did everything right.  I was a member is good standing at church, kept a clean house, cooked healthy meals, 3 daughters always clean, well-dressed, hair done. Husband a well-respected deacon. I was a sabbath school teacher, choir member, bible study leader etc.  Living across the street from the church, our house was like Graham Central Station on Sabbath with church "family" gathering for potluck dinners

I was a supportive and encouraging wife  wife who helped him stare and run a business, To the outside world we were the picture perfect church going family running a successful business.  My reality was something different.

Looking back, I realize that those were all HIS people.  When I married him I not only took his name, but I accepted his religion, family and friends. I forsook people who I'd grown up with, my childhood friends and even some relatives because I thought I was in love and focused solely on my family life.

Don't get me wrong, my mom, g-mom, aunts, great-aunts and god-mother were always around; looking over me.  They'd seen and or experienced it all before.  They knew the intricate details that I tried to hide from the world.   They knew what I didn't know yet

 - that I had created a bubble for myself and my children and that one day that bubble would surely burst.  I turned 40 in February of 2005 and that is the year my bubble finally burst. Grandmom, great-aunts were gone by then and my mom would be gone later that year.  In March I finally got the courage to leave a loveless marriage that had turned out to be a total lie. That lead to me leaving my place of employment because that was tied to him and them mom died.  I was left to deal with the aftermath all alone. 

Being a product of a matriarchal family of strong black women, I had it in my blood to stand strong in what would be the journey of a lifetime.  This was the toughest period of my life and I was all alone. I tried to remain faithful and encouraged.  I thought " seven. Seven years and it will be done.  Seven is the number for completion according to the bible. Well 7 years came and went and my life was still in turmoil.  Now, to be honest, I bought a lot of it on myself.  All the anger, bitterness, sadness, betrayal made me onery and I became my own worst enemy. So 7 years came and went so I thought EIGHT! Eight is the number for new beginnings!  After 8 years things will get better. But I was still in a state of utter confusion, still very angry and hurt. I tried praying, writing - I did all kinds of things to keep myself busy and took it day by day.  I wrote a book which was therapeutic but I realized that I was blaming EVERYBODY for what I was going through and that no one was really to blame.  Not even me.  This was just life.  My life.  My journey. and I had to find my way to my destination. The destination was to be HEALED EMPOWERED AND RESTORED.

I now understand that it is not about the DESTINATION; it is about the JOURNEY for the journey is where you grow.  It is where the lessons are learned, wisdom is acquired and your character is developed.

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