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By Barb Bergman
Erica went to BYU in Provo Fall 2017. After freshman year of college she went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the Philippines. The idea/vision of p...
By Barb Bergman
It was the last week of September. Our family had been planning for a month – a four-day work party to my in-laws' cabin in Star Valley, Wyoming, near the mountains outside Afton. Our...
Choosing appropriate inconsequential goals
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It was time for one student to carry out her Phase 1 experiment in the Mindset Mastery course, but she had some questions about the "inconsequ...
By Andrea Mabey
Have you ever imagined a hot, gooey cinnamon roll—just dripping with icing—and suddenly realized you needed one? My son John says that imagining delicious food is 85% of cooking. And ...
By Barb Bergman
In 2008, our family made a big move—from Memphis, Tennessee to Hermiston, Oregon. It was early July, and my husband, Scott (a CRNA—nurse anesthetist), had just accepted a job at a sma...
By Andrea Mabey
Doctor Gawande’s tremendous energy fueled his busy urology practice, his service to the Rotary Club and his tennis games three times a week. He also invested in a rural college back h...
By Barb Bergman
My daughter Erica graduated from BYU in 2023 and got a job at a charter school in her field of Communication Disorders. She worked with young kids as a speech pathologist and helped t...
By Andrea Mabey
Healthy thin people and I have a lot in common.
I used to be one.
Then stress and age happened, and somewhere along the line, a silent little flag went up:
“Welcome to Overweight-lan...
By Andrea Mabey
Joseph, age 17, was visibly upset. He saw his little sister eating cold cereal on a Saturday night and immediately felt threatened. In our home, cold cereal is usually reserved for Su...
By Andrea Mabey
There’s real power in optimism. I feel it every time I hear hope in a song—it energizes my whole heart. And I feel the opposite when I hear lyrics soaked in despair—my heart sinks. I ...
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