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    Life Is Sweeter With Honey: Creating a Joy Filled Life
    Life Is Sweeter With Honey: Creating a Joy Filled Life
    Life Is Sweeter With Honey: Creating a Joy Filled Life
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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoney Wiggs
    Release dateMar 27, 2017
    ISBN9780998380025
    Life Is Sweeter With Honey: Creating a Joy Filled Life
    Author

    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.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher/author, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.

      All images, logos, quotes, and trademarks included in this book are subject to use according to trademark and copyright laws of the United States of America.

      Physical Book:

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960468

      eISBN: 978-0-9983800-2-5

      FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood

      SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness

      QUANTITY PURCHASES: Schools, companies, professional groups, clubs, churches, and other organizations may qualify for special terms when ordering quantities of this title. For information, email [email protected].

      All rights reserved by Honey Beth Wiggs and First Avenue Press.

      All rights reserved.

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      Licensing Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal use and enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, please visit Smashwords.com and purchase a copy for yourself. Thank you for respecting this author’s work.

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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

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