Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. We are moving through the summer and things are getting better. It has been 100 years since women got the right to vote. Can you imagine that? A woman named Susan B. Anthony and her friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, decided that they would get a strategy going to tell their story. It was so important. Back then there was no TV and instead, people would gather to give or listen to speeches. The girls decided that they would plan their own tour in the winter in order to get the word out about women getting to vote. At the time they called it Women’s Suffrage. Most of the time, the people who did the speakers circuit were not doing it in the winter time because it was so harsh to be out there in the cold. They chose to travel in the winter when no one else was speaking. They wanted to let people know that women have opinions and by letting them share in the opportunity to vote their would be quicker growth in our country. They knew who their influencers were, they advertised as much as they could and they were able to get some men to agree with them and the men that agreed helped them to further their movement.
They had a strategy and a tactic and they made it happen. Yes! During that time it was very difficult for women. They would go on marches and sometimes they were arrested and treated terribly. Many times women would go on hunger strikes when they were in jail. These women fought very hard to get the right to vote. This is something my great-grandmother told me, when I was growing up, that a lot of people fought for me to be able to vote. It was so important for my great-grandmother to vote.
Just the other day President Trump granted Susan B. Anthony, who has been dead for a long time, a pardon because she voted anyway. At one point, she dressed up like a guy and she voted. She was put in jail and it has been on her record until just a few days ago. So keep that in mind. Progress sometimes takes a while, but she never gave up. It took a lot of people to work together.
So keep that in mind and make all those connections you need to make so you can fulfill your goals like losing weight or having a Wellness Plan. You knew I was going to get to that didn’t you? Yes it helps to have people in your corner. A lot of other people might want to get healthy or just get up and move. So get up, get going and get your strategy going and make this happen.
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Karen G. Clemenson is not a doctor or a scientist. She is a real person that eats too much sometimes and misses her workout on occasion but is mindful of her path toward wellness, all the time.
Karen understands that your physical wellness does not begin and end with your membership to a local gym. She knows that weight loss management begins with steps; some small and some large. These steps include diet, physical activity and retraining of the thoughts and habits that keep you from being successful on your path toward wellness.
