The blog post talks about creativity, particularly in writing and blogging. It introduces an online bookshop featuring reviewed and recommended books that inspire personal growth. Revenue from sales supports the blog and health charities, encouraging community engagement and resource exploration.
updated November 13, 2025
Thanks for visiting my blog. The post that inhabited this space was much out of date, with links that no longer exist. So it no longer made sense.
As the title suggests, the post was about creativity. A definition of creativity is
The ability to produce or develop original work, theories, techniques, or thoughts. A creative individual typically displays originality, imagination, and expressiveness.
Analyses have failed to ascertain why one individual is more creative than another, but creativity does appear to be a very durable trait.
One of the durable types of creativity is writing, like blogging. That is one reason why I review books on this blog and include affiliate links for books.
I have created an online bookshop of books I have read, reviewed, and recommend. It’s on Bookshop.org and you can find it here.
In these books, you will find information and inspiration to help you turn your challenges into opportunities to thrive and grow.
Please visit the site and share the link with friends. The revenue I receive from sales supports the cost of keeping this blog here and supports various health charities I know and trust.
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While you’re here, use this link to search the site for health and wellness topics and resources you need to know more about. Put a word or phrase into the box here and explore the HEART of health.
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And please visit my Pages, where you can meet me and review the terms of this blog, mainly don’t use it to diagnose or treat yourself.
I chose several book sites as affiliates for this blog- because I like to read, I believe reading is important, and I hope my readers do also. Even though I write for the internet, I think books and other printed media are valuable.
I have reviewed several books for this blog but in this post I share some others that I have heard of and think sound worthy of considering. I haven’t read them yet, but if you have or do read them, please write me and tell me what you think. I’ll share it with my other readers (anonymously if you prefer).
These book links are affiliate links- but if you want to borrow them from your local library that’s fine, I borrow books also. If you do make a purchase, you will be supporting the work of this blog- to spread the HEART of health throughout the world. Thank you!
by T. Colin Campbell, PH.D and Thomas Campbell, M.D.
The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.
You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.
More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin’s laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet.
In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study, hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written.
Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded edition of Colin and Tom’s groundbreaking book includes the latest undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus updated information about the changing medical system and how patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based nutrition.
“A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital…Harrowing… An important book.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“What is life worth? And what is a life worth living?
At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators who must ask–and ultimately answer–the most profound and heart-rending questions about life and death.”
“Fat Girl Walkingisn’t a diet book. It isn’t one of those former fat people memoirs about how someone battled, and won, in the fight against fat.
Brittany doesn’t lose all the weight and reveal the happy, skinny girl that’s been hiding inside her. Instead, she reminds us that being chubby doesn’t mean you’ll end up alone, unhappy, or the subject of a cable medical show. What’s important is learning to love your shape.
With her infectious humor and soul-baring honesty, Fat Girl Walking reveals a life full of the same heartbreak, joy, oddity, awkwardness, and wonder as anyone else’s. Just with better snacks.”
“Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors.
In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.”
In case you missed it, here is my guest post about how reading changed my life.
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