There Are Only 5 Things in Our Control

There Are Only 5 Things in Our Control

I keep a post it note in plain sight on my desk, it is from my daughter and it reads: There are only 5 things you can control Your thoughts Your feelings Your attitude Your effort Your decisions And I’d like to add another thing that we can control Your sugar! Most of...
Home Is Where The Heart Is

Home Is Where The Heart Is

There are a lot of sayings about our homes: “Home is where the heart is.” “Home is where you hang your hat.” “Home sweet home.” “Home is my happy place.” All of these sentiments are good, but my favorite motto about home is, “Health is homemade!” I grew up as an...
Some Things Will Never Change

Some Things Will Never Change

Happy Birthday Cherokee Gym, aka Texas East Gymnastics, aka Texas East Kids! That’s right, we just celebrated our 50th birthday. The Parsley family has been serving kids of east Texas a long time and looking back, it’s easy to see paramount change, but we think it’s...
Food Choices Matter

Food Choices Matter

Nutrition is critical, it is quite literally the difference between life and death!  So when a Mom commented, “ They’re just kids they won’t have to worry about eating right until they’re adults,” she couldn’t have been more wrong.  In fact, Dr. Elissa Epel and...