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For the Love of You
With all the red hearts and chocolates everywhere you look, many of us consider how to express love and affection for others — whether it is your man or family members. But we want today’s woman to stop and think about yourself for a few minutes. In this issue, we are focusing on ways you can give yourself some love that will not only benefit you, but the people who depend on you most. Follow Jill Stearman’s lead (page 10) by making better decisions about your health and attitude. Or take our stress quiz to find out if you need some down time (page 44). Also, let this month be the beginning of you taking good care of your heart. In our heart special section, four women share how their experiences with heart disease have given them a new perspective. Making small changes in your life can be impactful, because when you love yourself, people notice — and that is beautiful.
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WHAT WORKS
I Love My Car, My Phone, and My Chair by LUCY M. PRITCHETT / photos by MELISSA DONALD What Works for the woman named Kentucky Psychologist of the Year 2014: Liz McKune, 46, director of behavioral health for Passport Health Plan, a local nonprofit community-based health plan administering Kentucky Medicaid benefits. HOMETOWN: Bethany, Mo. NEIGHBORHOOD: East End HOUSEHOLD: Husband, Joe McKune; daughters, Maggie,16, and Katie, 13
HER PHONE I have had my Blackberry Q10 since January 2013. I love it because it has a keyboard and a touchscreen. I can use the keyboard to send texts and emails of any length. I hated the Android touchscreen keyboard that I used to have as I didn’t find it good for typing accurate messages for business. I am a believer in the Blackberry. It gives me the best of both worlds. I can’t imagine life without it. It is black with a white Otterbox case. I don’t have a special ringtone. I keep it on vibrate. HER CAR I am on the road driving to Frankfort and throughout the state two to three days a week. Both my daughters play on volleyball clubs, and we are always going to practices and tournaments. Last year, I put more than 30,000 miles on my 2013 Ford Edge. It is a mid-size SUV between the Escape and the Explorer. It is not too big or too small. I love my car. It is ruby red and has heated seats and a sunroof. With the sunroof open, I feel like I am spending time outdoors. It is comfortable for me when I am by myself but big enough to haul volleyball gear and kids. HER BEST SEAT The stadium chair is a wonderful invention. It attaches directly onto a hard bleacher seat and makes those long days — sometimes 12 hours — at volleyball tournaments with my daughters much more comfortable. It is made of sturdy canvas, the seat is padded, and it is lightweight and easy to carry. (laughs) I can sleep sitting up in it. I bought mine a couple of years ago and since then have given them as gifts. They are relatively inexpensive — about $35-$40.
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Four years ago, Jill Stearman found herself overweight, unhappy, lacking energy, and in the midst of a divorce. “I made the decision to begin living a healthy lifestyle,” she says. “One that tallied with the health changes I was recommending to my patients. The decision to begin that journey and the changes I made took me to an unexpected place.” Every journey begins with the first step. Jill’s first step came in January 2010 when she began keeping a food diary. “I downloaded the app My Fitness Pal (myfitnesspal.com) and wrote down everything I ate. At this point, I wasn’t thinking about restrictions. I could eat anything I wanted, but I entered every bite in my food diary. I became aware of the foods I was putting in my body and the number of calories those foods contained. “This awareness of what I was consuming first led me to stop eating fast food. Occasionally, when I would get off a night shift in the ER, I would want dinner and not breakfast. I would stop at Sonic on my way home and get a cheeseburger at 8 o’clock in the morning, eat it, and go home and go to bed. That cheeseburger, I learned, contained 800 calories. I don’t do that anymore.” Six months into her diet change, Jill joined Curves Fitness club, a womenonly gym where she said she felt comfortable and three times a week completed a 30-minute workout. By 2013, now 60 pounds lighter, Jill was running on her Spirit treadmill. With the help of another app, Couch to 5K (c25k.com), she began training in earnest and by the end of 2013 had run two half-marathons and another halfmarathon in 2014. Jill acknowledges that keeping a food diary led to her own healthier lifestyle and an opportunity to open a private practice that lets her spend time with her patients and guide them on their own journeys. TODAY’S WOMAN
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very treatment program I’ve worked in since 1979 has had waiting lists,” says Karyn Hascal, president of the Healing Place, a long-term, residential addiction recovery program that serves 600 men and women daily on three campuses. “We’ve never had enough detox beds, rehab beds, or outpatient slots. Only 12 percent of the people nationally who need treatment are able to access treatment.” Karyn has been in this field for 37 years. After a brief stint as an English teacher, she knew she’d found her calling when she got a job as a counselor at Seven Counties’ Jefferson Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center. “I knew immediately that this is where I was meant to be,” she says. “I’m not in recovery myself, don’t come from an alcoholic family. I had no predisposition to being in the business. But I am a tolerant and understanding person. I have been fortunate to understand the disease and that people do recover.” In the spring, the Healing Place will break ground on a new men’s unit, adding 200 beds. “One of the things that is interesting is people in longtime recovery blend in with the population,” Karyn says. “They are out there living their lives and staying sober.”
Karyn’s rules for staying motivated when working with tough situations:
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what your passion is, and stick with that. I have been able to keep my eye on the ball — that man or woman who is still suffering from addiction. Trying to find ways to treat all the people who want to get help — either by changing systems or policy — keeps me motivated.
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completely removed from work life. A good walk in my neighborhood or the park in the fresh air is the best way for me to find balance and decompress. I also practice meditation.
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negativity, address people’s fears or insecurities. Negative people are really fearful. Remaining positive and actively listening to people doesn’t allow negativity to grow and contaminate the conversation. People in withdrawal from drugs and/or alcohol are under a lot of stress, are usually in great pain and despair, and simply hope life can get better. Communicating hope overcomes most negativity.
Karyn Hascal President, the Healing Place
5. When faced with drama, it’s critical to remain calm. People in addiction are constantly in drama. I tell them, ‘I understand you are upset. Let’s see how to unravel the situation and figure out how to tackle the problem one item at a time, one day at a time, or one person at a time.’
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Prayer to your life and those around you. I say, ‘Whoa, let’s talk about what we can change, what we as humans cannot change, and see if we can figure out the difference between those two things.’ That gets me through the day.
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in living in the past or wallowing in problems. I have faced some challenges in my life. I was widowed at a young age (41) and had a
young child (my son was 7). I never asked, ‘Why me?’ I simply began the task of moving forward. I told somebody way back, ‘That self-pity thing doesn’t look good on me. It’s like trying to wear yellow — it just doesn’t work for me.’
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“Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.” My grandfather was my personal guru. He ran a large chemical company in Cleveland, Oh., where I’m from. He was such a balanced person, very optimistic, hopeful, always looked for the good, the right and the just. When I was a girl, he would take me to work with him and would recite that mantra to himself every day. I have adopted that and recite it daily as a way to focus myself for the day.
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Check out these upcoming good causes Chocolate Dreams on Feb. 2 is GuardiaCare’s fundraiser and also the time when Today’s Transitions magazine recognizes the Caregiver of the Year. guardiacare.org Fight for Air Climb - the American Lung Association is having a stair climb on February 7. Today’s Woman has formed a Scan-dalous team to further promote the lung scan that saved owner Cathy Zion’s life. Donate or join the climbing at climblouisville.org. CANstruction: A design/ build competition where the local design and construction community competes by building structures from food cans that ultimately get donated to the Dare to Care Food Bank. At Mall St. Matthews from Feb 23-28 to vote. louisville. canstruction.org
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Desserts First is the Girl Scouts’ delicious fundraiser on March 25 at Mellwood. gskentuckiana.org Celebration of Service and Survival is the Center for Women and Families’ big event on Feb 26. thecenteronline.org Tulips and Juleps Art and Gift Show at Slugger Field from Feb. 27-March 1 raises money for the Junior League’s causes. juniorleaguelouisville.org Bottoms Up: This March 6 bash raises funds for colon cancer prevention. coloncancerpreventionproject.org
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Southern Indiana Women’s Networking Group Every 3rd Wed. • 11:30am Holiday Inn-Lakeview 505 Marriott Drive, Clarksville info@soindwng.org
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oohoo…Emily Post, where are you? So, some of you are asking, “Who the heck is Emily Post?” When I was growing up, she was known as the queen of etiquette. Whenever I’d make a mistake at the table — don’t talk with your mouth full, keep your napkin in your lap, ask for items to be passed instead of reaching…well, you get the gist...Emily Post was always cited. I would bristle at her name and roll my eyes, thinking, “Who really cares?” Then I got older, and I realized how much those life lessons paid dividends. Emily taught me manners about everything from weddings to business. In my opinion, the most basic one is the act of appreciation — the simple “thank you.” You can never say it enough. I was taught to write thank you notes to relatives and friends for gifts received. And not just a “thanks for the gift,” but a more genuine explanation of what the gift meant to me. In business, I have extended that same philosophy of sending notes when someone does something special. And isn’t it nice when someone thinks enough to sit down and write you a note? How thoughtful. Yet I am appalled….aghast….at the number of people who never even utter, email, or text a “thank you,” much less write a note. Over the past few years, this rudeness has begun to consume me. I try hard to attribute it to their upbringing or busyness, but I can’t help myself — it upsets me. Whether it’s a personal gift or a business gesture, it is just basic courtesy and politeness to acknowledge the gift with an expression of gratitude. Emily has passed along her etiquette business to her grandchildren, who practice a more modern approach. But the bottom line remains the same. According to the Post family, etiquette means “treating people with consideration, respect, and honesty. It means being aware of how our actions affect those around us.” Thank you, Emily, for creating this awareness and for passing it along. Thank you, readers, for letting me vent. Show the love…thank you.
Cathy Zion Publisher Today’s Woman
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t took many years before Dustye McCallon felt like celebrating her wedding anniversary. As the date neared, she experienced sadness and profound loss instead of joy and excitement. But that’s to be expected when your mother dies from a heart attack the night before your wedding. Dustye remembers how her mother, Barbara Wininger, collapsed at the rehearsal dinner in 2000. “It looked like she was having a seizure or a stroke,” she says. Dustye and her maid of honor, both lab techs trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, began CPR. When they realized Barbara no longer had a pulse, Dustye’s father-in-law took over chest compressions. Dustye knew she didn’t have it in her to use the proper force and break her mother’s ribs in the life-saving attempt. When EMS arrived, they used the defibrillator paddles three times on Barbara and stabilized her. But shortly after she reached the hospital, Barbara was pronounced dead at age 46. Barbara had visited a cardiologist a few months before her death. Although her blood pressure and cholesterol were a little high, Dustye says, “She was told she needed to lose weight and to come back in a year. There was nothing that alarmed them.” But Barbara did have a strong family history of heart disease; all 12 brothers and sisters had experienced some level of cardiovascular trouble. (Continued on page 28) todayswomannow.com / facebook.com/todayswomanmagazine / @todayswomannow
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Dustye with sister Billie Chandler, and mother Barbara Wininger.
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“The autopsy showed she had experienced two previous heart attacks, and her coronary artery was 98 percent blocked,” Dustye says. Upon reflection, Dustye and her sister realized that those two previous attacks had been mistaken for anxiety attacks. Barbara had even called the cardiologist after the first one to see if she needed to come in. Despite her mother’s death, Dustye went ahead with her wedding the following day because Barbara had planned the entire wedding and reception. There were 12 attendants on each side of the wedding party, and they knew the logistics of everyone being able to get back together at a later date would be difficult. “All of the reception was a surprise party,” Dustye says. “We felt like it was a testament to my mother.” Dustye’s father, distraught by his wife’s sudden death, stayed home with his parents, and Dustye’s brother-in-law walked her down the aisle. The newlyweds went on their honeymoon to Disney World, although Dustye admits, “It was really pretty terrible being at the ‘happiest place on Earth.’” As she approaches her 15th wedding anniversary in May, she says, “We need a re-do honeymoon, eventually.” Heart disease hit home again when Dustye experienced high blood pressure during each of her three pregnancies. While her first pregnancy only required limited bed rest, she was put on strict bed rest and high blood pressure medication during her second. Following her third pregnancy, her blood pressure spiked at 12 weeks postpartum and required months of medication. Dustye knew she was in bad shape when she was on the floor with her newborn experiencing a debilitating headache that ultimately caused her to be rushed to the emergency room. Dustye sees her cardiologist every year and is proactive about her health as a result of her mother’s death and her own pregnancy experiences. She keeps her weight down, works out at the YMCA three days a week, and eats healthfully. It is important for her to set a good example for her own daughters, Maci, Luci, and Molly. In 2007, Dustye’s husband, Jon, planned a surprise wedding vow renewal ceremony for them, and her dad was there to give her away, along with her grandparents. Although she is now able to celebrate her wedding anniversary every May, it remains a bittersweet time. “Now that I have my kids, I wonder what it would be like if my mother was here to see them,” she says.
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Jessica Tipton Sorrels couldn’t imagine that having children would put her life in jeopardy.
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complications and says she is glad she survived. In her free time, she reads with her children, walks, or treats herself to a glass of red wine. Jessica says she considers herself to be lucky and wants to encourage other women to be proactive about their health through her involvement as the Open Your Heart Committee Chair for the Go Red Luncheon. TODAY’S WOMAN
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Sarah Nordman, director of sponsorships with the Louisville Bats, refers to her English bulldog, Johnson, as her little shadow. “He is the only dog that gets to go to the press box,” she says. ANTICS: “He follows me everywhere and goes to the office with me sometimes. When we’re at work, he likes to greet people at the elevator.” TREATS: “He loves to eat turkey.”
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Tara Smith’s boxer named Rudy has a goofy personality, which was a welcome distraction after her previous dog’s death. “I had a boxer that was born with kidney failure,” she says. “We had him three years before he died.” ANTICS: “When I turn on the blow dryer, he will watch me and bark until I point it on him. Afterward, he’ll run around like he is afraid of it and then he’ll come back and do it again.” TREATS: “He’s never turned down a treat, although bacon seems to be his favorite flavor.” TARA IS WEARING: Dress by Jessica Simpson,
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All About the Texture Emilee Ruxer knew Ellie Mae was the dog for her when she saw a photo of her with her Goldendoodle siblings. “I found Ellie Mae through a breeder in Ohio,” Emilee says. She sent me a picture of all the dogs available. They were all in line, except one was in the back by the water bowl, so I said I wanted her.” ANTICS: “She will take my Pure Barre socks out of my purse and play with them.” Emilee is a Pure Barre instructor and pediatric nurse at Norton Suburban. TREATS: “She loves raspberry ice cream and pup cups from Starbucks.”
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efore she even began, Kimberly Crum told herself she could own a business — and that her passion was worth the risk. “I had a friend design a business card for me before I even had a business,” says the now-owner and instructor at Kimberly Crum Shape and Flow Writing Services is the owner and instructor at at the Mellwood Arts Center. Shape and Flow Kimberly has taught Writing Services writing and literature at at the Mellwood Arts Center. Spalding University for 12 years. She also has a master’s in social work and is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Social Work at Spalding. “People would ask me why I quit doing social work,” Kimberly says. “But it’s the same thing as writing — listening to people’s stories and using the power of observation.” Kimberly specializes in essay, creative nonfiction, and storytelling. In memoir writing classes, she sees writers of all ages sharing huge parts of their lives. It wasn’t until Kimberly got her first rejection letter that she considered herself a writer; the letter began with Dear Writer. “I call them regret letters rather than rejection letters,” Kimberly says. “I’m actively seeking regrets. It gives me motivation to send things in.” Kimberly describes writing as a solitary experience, and she’s not a solitary person, Attend one which is a challenge. of Kimberly’s “I have to make myself Workshops sit down to write,” she says. “When I get to my A six-week workshop entitled studio, I work.” Writing from Life: Memoir & Personal Essay will begin In addition to owning February 9. Shape and Flow Writing Services, Kimberly is On the second Saturday of president of the Board for each month, small group workshops are available. Louisville Literary Arts February 14 is The Web Blog and helps coordinate as a Writing Platform and the annual Writer’s on March 14 it’s Creating Block Festival. “I like Interesting Characters. leadership and always Find more information at have,” she says. But she’s safws.com or email Kimberly at planning to cut back kimberly.g.crum@gmail.com on volunteering to keep growing her business and hopes to get enough essays published to compile into a book. “I love writing,” Kimberly says. “I don’t want to quit writing to be a writing teacher.”
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STRATEGIES
for opening your heart By BOB MUELLER
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“My husband and I have been married for almost five years. Our marriage is stable in every way except in the area of finances. We live from paycheck to paycheck. My husband is determined we are going to get debt-free, and I would like to see that happen, but I find some of his demands unreasonable. For example, he doesn’t want me to purchase makeup or get my hair cut, and he wants me to clean everything with water and vinegar rather than buying my standard cleaning supplies. It’s the first time in our marriage we have had arguments, and now it seems we argue almost daily. Is there some way to compromise and save our marriage?”
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