Life Is Sweeter With Honey: Creating a Joy Filled Life
By Honey Wiggs
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Want more joy and adventure in your life but don't know where to start?
Time flies. One blink, and kids are grown with families of their own, we're working the same uninspiring job, and the dreams we had for our future are dim and unrealized. How can we stop this from happening? How can we create a sweeter, joy filled life?
Life Is Sweeter with Honey provides tools and practical applications to help you:
* Get over the hurdles to unleash your wildest dreams once again
* Manage your time to create the freedom and adventure you crave
* Build and cherish strong relationships with your kids and your spouse
* Refocus your mind when negativity sneaks in
Honey Beth Wiggs is an expert in creating a joy filled life. Her transformation from morbidly obese to healthy living was only the beginning. She understands the obstacles and how to overcome them. Life is short. Live with no regrets, cherish each relationship, and create memories that last a lifetime.
Honey Wiggs
Honey Beth Wiggs is an author, speaker, and certified health coach. She used to struggle with her health -- at one point she weighed 320 pounds. After she discovered an optimal health program that helped her reclaim her health, it launched her into a new career path to help others. She currently lives outside of Raleigh, NC with her husband Dale.
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Life Is Sweeter With Honey - Honey Wiggs
Life Is Sweeter with Honey
How to Create a Joy Filled Life
Honey Beth Wiggs
Life Is Sweeter with Honey: How to Create a Joy Filled Life
Published by First Avenue Press
Raleigh, NC
Copyright 2017 Honey Beth Wiggs. All rights reserved.
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Physical Book:
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960468
eISBN: 978-0-9983800-2-5
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness
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Dedicated to Dale Wiggs, Kim and Nathan Fronczak, Jonathan and Sydney Wiggs, Austin Wiggs, and Ashlyn Wiggs for making this crazy adventure of life sweeter than I ever imagined.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: What If
Chapter One: The Dream Date
Chapter Two: How to Dream
Chapter Three: How Do You Spend Your Time?
Part Two: Why Do It
Chapter Four: A Happy Heart
Chapter Five: A Cheerful Mind
Part Three: Where to Start
Chapter Six: Family and Friends
Chapter Seven: Freedom
Part Four: How to Do It
Chapter Eight: A Lean Lifestyle
Chapter Nine: Implementing Adventure
Part Five: What Now
Chapter Ten: Action Plan
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
That One Catalyst Moment
I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have an abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
John 10:10, Amplified Bible
Everyone experiences at least one defining catalyst moment in life: a moment that causes that person to do an about-face and change direction. Whether the change is a decision on health, lifestyle, career, or family, it can always be traced back to that one defining moment in time when clarity was born. For me, that catalyst moment is burned into my heart and soul forever and is what drives me today to live the life I have chosen. I made a decision to release what people thought I should do and how I should do it, and to replace it with a way to embrace the fullness of life and to center life around what matters most. I chose to drizzle the sweetness of honey
into every nook and cranny of daily living. My life is full of memorable experiences, and I long to leave a legacy of health, family, adventure, and joy.
I was morbidly obese, 250 to 320 pounds, for about twenty-five years of my life. I know what the deep hurt and scars of being obese are all about. I know how it feels to believe that you have nothing to offer people because of the way you look. I know that being the life of the party is a false front for all the deep hurt inside. I know what it’s like to struggle to do fun activities with the family such as horseback riding, roller-skating, swimming, hiking, etc. I couldn’t even lift my leg to get on the back of a motorcycle with my husband, Dale. One painful memory was in a boat, on a lake, with my family. I remember the day well. It was 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of July. Everyone was in the water cooling off, and I was sitting in the boat with my life jacket on, sweating profusely, wishing I were in the water too. But I had to consider the ramifications. I knew that it would take an army to help a wet 320-pound woman climb back into the boat. I did not have enough strength to do it on my own. My husband would stand in the boat pulling on my arms while my two teenage children would push me from behind. It would be humiliating!
I also know what it is like to stand in line for a roller coaster and scan the crowds to see if there are people bigger getting on the ride. It is terrifying to think that you will be kicked off the roller coaster because you are too large for the safety harness to close. You stand in line engulfed in fear, sweating because your heart rate is increased because of anxiety. Then one day it happened: I will never forget that moment—the moment when the attendant gave me an uncomfortable, sheepish look and explained that I would have to leave the ride while hundreds of eyes watched me slowly get up and walk out the exit. I felt incredibly humiliated, not for myself, but for my husband. So many thoughts flooded my mind in a matter of seconds, including, "What must he be thinking? How does this make him feel? Is he embarrassed to be with me? Does this make him love me less?’ And yet, as immeasurably humiliating as that experience was, it was not my catalyst moment.
When I was a young girl, I dreamed of getting married, having kids, and being a homemaker, the typical happy ever after
scenario. I met my husband while on vacation in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. I was vacationing from Maryland with my dad, brother, sister, and girlfriend. Dale was with his two young children, Kim and Jonathan. It was on the Fourth of July, 1991, and it was one of the most interesting turns of events in my life. Let’s say that God divinely orchestrated our meeting. I moved to North Carolina in August 1991, and we married on October 16, 1993. As much as I loved my stepchildren, I longed for children of my own, children that would call me Mommy.
Dale and I tried to get pregnant during those first ten years of marriage, and nothing was working. We were raising his two children at the time, and our lives were pretty busy. I finally went to the doctor to receive some assistance in getting pregnant. I can’t remember the exact words that the doctor said, but what I heard was, You are too fat to have a baby. Go lose weight.
I felt like saying, "Well, thank you very much. I didn’t