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Overcoming the Storms in Your Life

Overcoming the Storms in Your Life

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH

What if you had the chance to step away from the depths of your despair?
What if you could overcome your darkest hour?
What if you could eliminate the very thing that plagues you?
What if God showed you that it could be done?…Would you do it?


Often we find ourselves questioning “What if?”
Our lives and our blessing are not built on what ifs and what abouts
We are not meant to live lives that are impacted and defiled by evil people and negative thoughts.
We are meant to lead blessed and abundantly lives that in-turn bless other people.


Ephesians 4:18 “They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.”



Why would you block your own blessings by consistently living in fear, pain, confusion and mediocrity?
Why you keep thinking that you already know the answer to your issue, when you have living a cycle of sadness, anger, and doubt?
You keep praying asking God to give you a sign and yet when that very sign is completely bright in neon lights flashing right in front of your face you ignore it.


Although the storms in your life may bring the thunder and rain, know that you will overcome them because you’ve already proven that you can.


2Timothy 2:23-24

“Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.”
Stop arguing with those who taunt, bring negativity, and hurt you! You are only allowing it and hurting yourself. You know that you deserve better than that. So stop!!


Remember when you allowed someone to dim your light?
Remember when you let your significant other tell you that your dreams were too big?
Remember when you got that degree and how you kept getting denied a job?
Remember when that person showed you who they were and you made excuses for them?
Remember when you lost every material thing that you owned?
Remember when you lost that person that you loved so dearly, to death?
Remember when you spent your last dime so that your child could eat?


Everything that has plagued you have risen above it!
God has blessed you over and over again!
Do you see the signs now? 
Do you see how your circumstances or a situation clouded everything?


God helps you through every situation. Why are you denying that you can break away from the very thing that is hurting you?


1 Peter 5:7
“Cast all of your anxiety on him because he cares for you”
Don’t you see? Everything that He has done for you before, in some way He will do it again if only you have faith and do what He calls you to do.

As I keep saying, please making excuses. You are not helping anyone by doing that, and you are stifling your life, your blessings, and the growth of your family.

Change your mindset so that you can change your life.

Be blessed and be at peace.
#KayLasPositivityCorner


***Health Spotlight***
Overcoming storms in health means that you will have to fight and never give up. Everyone faces different struggles in their lives, but the key in healthcare is to not give up. If you don’t know the answer to something, ask until you get the answer. You can overcome anything put on your path, do what you can to help everyone around you. Health care can be difficult to access, so do what you can to help others get the help that they need.





Change, Clarity, Determination, Courage, Empowerment, Global Health, Epidemiology, God, Healing, Law of Attraction, Mental health, Overcoming, Public Health, Self-Love, Self-Worth, Wisdom

H-Habit

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH
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When you get to the end of a road and you have make the decision to make a new habit or break the old habit, what do you do? If you’re wise, you’ll do both.

Breaking Bad Habits
We all have things that we would like to change. The most important thing to remember is that you have to want to change. Next, you have to eliminate negative people and surroundings that may make you miss out on your blessings. Lastly, break the tie that bind you. No one is holding you back except you! We’ve been over this. You can’t stop eating that fattening food and work out. You can go back to school, you’re not too old and yes it is for you. You can stop smoking. You can stop drinking. Stop wasting money. Whatever is plaguing you, you can stop doing it! We all face temptations. We all have habits; break away from what you’re facing if it is not good for you.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Making New Habits
Now that you’ve eliminated those bats in your closet, it’s time to make new habits. The most important thing in this is to make a routine. Get up  work out, eat a healthy breakfast, do yoga… go to school/ work, eat lunch, continue your day, have a healthy snack, go for a walk, go home have a light dinner…


Plan your day from beginning to end and be consistent.

You have the power to do whatever you want. You don’t have to be stuck in never-ending cycle.
Think and know what you need from your life.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, stop doing it. Revamp your life and your thoughts.
You can do it, I believe in you.

Be blessed and be at peace.
#KayLasPositivityCorner




***Health Spotlight*** HIV/AIDS
Last year over 900,000 died from HIV related illness and at the end of 2017 there were over 30 million living with HIV. 
Symptoms: vary depending on the stage of the infection; can range from no symptoms to flu-like symptoms and later rash, fever, cough, and diarrhea just to name a few symptoms.
Transmission: exchange of bodily fluids from infected people- blood, semen, breast milk, semen, and vaginal secretions.

Prevention: condoms use and limiting exposure to risk factors.
Treatment: lifelong treatment include ARV drugs and ART
(WHO and CDC)
– It is your job to take of yourself and protect yourself; do not let anyone take advantage of you. Get tested and know your status; it is important and everyone needs to do so. Do what you can to spread the word and make wise decisions.


Habits, Determination, Empowerment, Global Health, Law of Attraction, mental health, public health, Wisdom, Strength, Epidemiology 

G-Gain (Personal, Spiritual, and Life Gains)

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH
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Unless you love a life of mediocrity or you’ve already achieved
your highest goals, your thoughts should be geared towards gaining something
greater. Keep climbing and achieving, it all matters; every step big or small counts.


Financial gain

Educational gain

Family gain (growth together)

Relationship/marital gain (prospering together)

Spiritual gain (growth in faith, strengthening prayer, growing your
relationship with God).

You’ve got to put in your work if you want to have anything
greater than what you currently have.


Nothing will fall into your lap!

Please do not become blind to your situations or your need for change.


Patience isn’t a bad thing, but acceptance can be… don’t let anyone
tell you what you can/can’t do.


You must challenge yourself and reach for the things that most
people would think are impossible to attain.
If we all sit and become stagnant what will we have? The exact
same thing that we start off with.


Remember this bible verse along your journey
Matthew 16:26

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

Don’t let your achievements take over your judgment or alter your character,
values, or morals. Remain true to yourself!


2 Corinthians 9:8
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that
ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
work”
Do not ever think that you need a man/woman to live, be happy or
achieve something. Everything that you need is in you.


Get to it!! Seek. Pray. Mediate. Imagine. Visualize. Make it
happen!

Be
blessed and be at peace.


#KayLasPositivityCorner
***Health Spotlight*** Giardiasis- a parasitic infection
Symptoms include: diarrhea, gas, stomach pains, dehydration
Treatment: drugs available; discuss options with your physician.
Prevention: good hygiene, avoid contaminated food and drinks, prevent contact with feces during sex, clean up after ill people and pets. (CDC)
Reported cases 2017: over 15,000 (CDC)


Epidemiology, Empowerment, Global Health, mental health, Positivity, public health, Law of Attraction, Mindfulness
E-Evolution (Of Yourself & Your Life)

E-Evolution (Of Yourself & Your Life)

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH
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Self-evolution starts with self- reflection.
Often, it is only right that you think about a
new and better you.

Close your eyes and no don’t make a wish…
I’m going to take you on a journey through your own mind.
It is time to completely let go of your painful/difficult past and visualize and manifest your destiny.
Now visualize in depth, in color, inside your mind your accomplishments,
greatest “failures”, and hopes left unattended.
What do you see? Smiles, tears, bruises? The common factor is you.

The next thing to do is allow yourself to rejoice in your accomplishments and
achievements and forgive yourself for your perceived failures or pain that lies in your
past.

If you don’t face yourself and face your crap/personal issues you cannot evolve. No exceptions.
Pray about what you want and be thankful for what God has given you. 


The next step
in this visualization is to bring to life all that you want in your life. You
need to see yourself accomplishing that next goal. You need to see yourself
graduating and getting that degree. You need to see yourself opening up your
checking account or your savings account and seeing those millions of dollars
sitting there.


You need to not only envision your life and everything that you
want in it but you need to feel how you would feel in those moments.


So let’s
say that you are opening up that account and you see those millions of dollars, you need to feel it right now -You open the account and you’re happy, you’re
excited, you’re proud of yourself.


If you live in your purpose and allow
yourself to evolve, empowering yourself along the way, nothing can stop you.

Have you spoken negatively about someone’s dream? Remember when you maybe said something to someone that may not have been kind? In those moments, all you did was push your blessing
further away.

Bless everyone around you. If you’re the smartest and most successful in your
group, you need a new group.


God is not going to bless your ugliness, laziness,
or character flaws that you are unwilling to change. 


You have every tool possible to change your life, your
integrity, your knowledge, your approaches to communication, your diligence and
everything in between.

It’s time to change your entire life.

Lose that weight, get that degree, EVOLVE!!! Faith without works is dead,
people.

Challenge yourself, push through, get certifications, do whatever it takes to
up your game!

Everything that you are/are not doing is affecting your present and the next decade.

What are you waiting for?

Need a push? Go to the Bible! Refer to that which you know about the universe, growth, cosmic awareness and personal development.

1 Corinthians 13:11
“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason
like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” It is the time grow and do away with things of your past being. You can’t move forward if you are constantly looking back. 

Don’t you know better than to settle for mediocre?
Don’t you know better than to just sit on your butt waiting for something to
happen?
Don’t you know better than to speak ugly or negatively to or about people?
Do you deserve more than what you’ve received?
Do you believe that the universe or God’s love is never-ceasing and that you
can do ALL things through Jesus Christ?
If you do… what’s stopping you besides you? Nothing.

Change your life, save your life, better your health, handle
properly and cut out baggage, eliminate all negativity, love yourself better.

Hope, faith, growth, prosperity, abundance, and success…you
have the tools… NOW OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!

I
pray that your life is full of love, happiness, success, and perfect health.
Pray for me, as I always pray for you.


Be blessed and be at peace.


#KayLasPositivityCorner


***Health Spotlight*** Ehrlichiosis
Transmission- It is a tick-borne disease caused by bacteria Ehrlichia chaffeensis, E. ewingii, or E. muris eauclairensis in the U.S.
Symptoms may include: chills, headaches, fever, muscle aches and/or upset stomach
Treatment: Doxycycline for children and adults
Statistics: Over 1000 annually over the past 6 years
Reference: CDC


Having compassionate and educated leaders in the public health field means that there will be better delivery of care when it is needed most. Use your voice to advocate for others, it may just save a life.



Evolving, Mental Health, Public Health, Empowerment, Global Health, Growth, Change, Overcoming, Achievement, Vision
C-Change

C-Change

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH
©KayLaN.Allen


What is change?
What are our lives but elements of change?

Have you been wanting things to just get better? Have you been
feeling financially burdened on a regular basis?

Do you want something better? Someone better?

Guess what is holding you back… YOU!!

Education is to knowledge as character is to respect.
Everything that you want and everything that you want to be, you can do and/or achieve!!

Every morning that you wake up you have another day to change,
evolve, grow, and LIVE IN YOUR PURPOSE- LIVE LIFE ON PURPOSE. Use your
God-given gifts and talents!

You know the basic difference between a rich man and a poor man?
Nothing, at all. We all have the same 24 hours!

If you want to make a change, make the change!

Nothing is going to just fall into your lap.

Sure it may be hard, but think about what could happen if you only try! Imagine
what might be there just beyond that barrier of comfort.

Break the mold!

The time that you spend just scrolling on Facebook, posting on Instagram, and using filters for fun on Snapchat could be time that you are
networking on LinkedIn, filling out your FAFSA, looking at online courses (busy dad/mom), etc.

Ephesians 5:15-16
“Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” The world is full of opportunities (limitless, boundless
opportunities). God grants new mercies every morning. God never stops shaping and molding you; he sees all knows all and can give you all that your heart desires. The Universe, that which lives inside of you, is always at work…there are no slow moments or days off. Every day that you do not seek knowledge or challenge yourself to take that next step, you are missing out and so is the person/people that you are to bless/support.


Proverbs 14:15 
“The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.” Don’t fall for what someone tells you to do or not do without research and seeking further insight. Every step that you take matters. Your hours and days are numbered…what will you do with your time to become who you are called to be or all that you dream to be?

Meditate, make that vision board, and be the change that you want to see!

Claim things that you want, and act as they are already
physically present. (MANIFEST)

Ok…now, what are you waiting for?
If you need motivation or help making your dream come true,
connect with me, your idol, people in the position that you are dreaming of,
etc. The guidance and help is there. The question is, do you really want the help?



NO MORE EXCUSES!!!!


Be blessed and be at peace.


#KayLasPositivityCorner


***Health Spotlight***
Chagas Disease (also know as American trypanosomiasis): This neglected parasitic infection disease is caused by a parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is transmitted to animals and people via the triatomine bug (sometimes known as the kissing bug). It is more common in Mexico, Central America, South America, and rural Latin America, in areas of widespread poverty (CDC). Chagas is an endemic in these areas, as people are at greatest risk there. More than 300,000 people with T. cruzi live in the US and acquired the infection in other countries. Infection can be from mom-child, from contaminated blood transfusions, organ transplant, lab accident, or contaminated food and/or drinks. It can last up to a few months; there can be swelling, changes in heart rhythm difficulties swallowing, and bowel issues, Blood work will lead to diagnosis by observing the parasite under a microscope; other testing can be performed (CDC). People with weakened/suppressed immune systems need to be seek a physician immediately; there is treatment via medication is available (WHO). Prevention methods include being mindful of where you sleep, using bed nets, using insecticides, doing home improvement, and practicing good hygiene and cleanliness. Seek the help of a physician or caregiver as soon as possible. Take good care of yourself and your families. 





God, Change, Evolution, Challenges, Success, Growth, Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, Determination, Healing
A- Alpha (Addressing The Beginning)

A- Alpha (Addressing The Beginning)

Posted on by KayLa's Positivity Corner by KayLa N. Allen, MPH
©KayLaN.Allen


For those who may be going through a tough time, illness, or
in bereavement this first post of motivation is for you.


To become stronger than you are, make changes in your life, or grow into who you are called to be you must first take inventory; everything happened for a reason, it is time to look a bit deeper into those reasons, from the beginning/root of it all.

God is a god of miracles, provision, new mercies, of support,
love, compassion, favor and deliverance. No matter how tough your situation may
be, know that God will carry you through ANY storm. You need only to trust him. The universe is in tune with your needs.

Isaiah 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not
be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will
uphold you with my righteous right hand”

For those who may not believe in God, know that all things
work if you put your energy into the proper place. Things that you speak out
into the universe come to fruition. Difficult times do not last. Time and
change are inevitable, along with many things like growth and death. We cannot
change the way that things happen after we make a decision, but we can change
our outlook. 

See the value in time and patience.

Challenge yourself to seek guidance from those with wisdom.
Feel that you are able to overcome anything; grow not Annoyed or Aggravated,
because although you may not be Able to see the sun during your storm a rainbow
is soon to come and you will see the light again.



Be blessed and be at peace.

#KayLasPositivityCorner





***Health Spotlight***


Amebiasis: A disease caused by a parasite (E. histolytica). It is most common in areas where there is poor sanitation and in tropical areas; it is also more common in homosexual men. Coming in contact with food or water that is contamination by human feces from someone with an infection from E. histolytica; people can also directly swallow the eggs from the parasite from via contaminated surfaces or fingers (CDC). Symptoms include: loose stool and abdominal pain/cramping; symptoms present themselves in about 2-4 weeks. Diagnosis can be difficult as the parasite can look very similar to others, but blood tests can be recommended by a physician. Although people do not always become sick because of the infection, treatment and medications/antibiotics are available; only about 10-20% of people infected with the parasite become sick (CDC). Practice good hygiene to prevent spreading the infection. If you feel like something is wrong or or if your body is sending you signals, please seek a physician or healthcare provider. Healthy living starts inside.






Challenges, Changes, Determination, Empowerment, Evolution, God, Faith, Global Health, Mental Health, Public Health, Healing