Have You Ever Had a Llama in Your House?
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
Release Date: 03/24/2014
Mike Jackson Talks Field Trial Dogs and Horses
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
Mike Jackson is a retired electric lineman and supervisor who has trained English Pointer dogs for horseback field trials for many years. I interview him in his barn as he is preparing for a trip from Indiana to North Dakota and Montana for training his dogs and younger horses.
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Pull the Help Chain | Elder Care or Self Care
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
"Pulling the help chain" is a phrase I describe in this episode. The phrase is ued in the Toyota Way (book) and is related to Andon. The help chain, help cord, or yellow stop button, is a mechanism that line workers can use to stop production and call for help. It's also used to notify the line that something has gone wrong in manufacturing.
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Audio Index of Stories Told by a Bride During World War 2
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
At the end of several episodes of Heartsong Fit are short stories by my mom, Lucille Maris, about life in the US during the 1940s when World War 2 was underway. I have been interviewing her about how she dealt with the stresses of those times from finding housing, to scarcity of food and supplies to dealing with the deployment of her young husband (my dad).
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Unplugged Life at Minnesota Fishing Resort
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
Podcast host, Vickie Maris, and her husband, Scott Greeson, share their takeaways from living unplugged for a few days at Fox Lake Resort in Marcell, MN. Planning and preparing meals; fishing; exercising; following a morning routine; and living without digital devices for a few days were all aspects of the week that contributed to relaxation and rejuvenation.
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Pearl Harbor | Learning of the News of the Bombing on Dec. 7th
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
Margaret Williamson and Lucille Maris recount details of their memories of learning the news from President Theodore Roosevelt on Dec. 7, 1941 that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States was entering the war.
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Scott Greeson & Vickie Maris Talk About Music
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
This episode is a conversation in the studio between podcast host, Vickie Maris, and Scott Greeson, right after the two had played a music gig with the band, Scott Greeson and Trouble With Monday, at the Indiana Bacon Festival in Delphi, Indiana.
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Walk a Llama While You Exercise
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
You'll hear the sounds of nature in this episode of Heartsong Fit. I recorded it in the woods while walking for exercise. I have my llama, Heartsong, with me.
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Managing Caregiver Stress During a Loved One's Hospital Trip
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
I share methods for managing stress that I use while in the caregiver role with my mom. These are ideas you can adopt if you are in a caregiver role and helping your loved one as they take a trip to the emergency room or hospital.
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Relax & Learn About Animals on a Walk Through Wolf Park
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
Take a walk with podcast host, Vickie Maris, and guest, Dana Drenzek, on the trail around the main wolf enclosure at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Indiana.
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Heartsong Fit is Starting Season 2
Heartsong Fit With Vickie Maris | Healthy Ways to Address Stress
In this start of the new season, I talk about the reasons why I had stopped producing the show for a while and what it was like to get it back online for you.
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For this episode, I took the handheld recorder out in the snow and sat near the barn with the llamas. My Connemara pony, Kerrymor Madison, stood next to the fence, and our Jack Russell Terrier, Hope, joined the conversation.
You’ll get to learn about life on the farm as I describe our one-eyed llama, Stunning, whom Madison is so careful with as he moves around her. I also describe the coloring of Primary Colors and how we send the fleeces, sheared in the spring, to the mill for processing into roving and yarn.
I also share a story about the harsh 2014 winter and the day we found Lily, the llama, shivering in the barn. Lily got to live in the old farm house for a few hours as she warmed up and enjoyed watching Let’s Make a Deal on the TV.
Did You Work Out Today?
Vickie encourages you in your fitness journey as she talks about her experience following the schedule in Focus T25 to build cardio, strength, and flexibility. She has finished the first five weeks of Focus T25, or the Alpha section, and has moved on to the final five weeks, or Beta.
My thoughts about Focus T25: “There are three things that really stand out to me in this program. 1) I love Shaun T. He is an amazing athlete and professional fitness trainer. He keeps me motivated, and, well, focused! I also love that these workouts are designed to be done five days a week and are only 25 minutes each. They fit in my day very well. And 3) the modifier who does a low-impact version of the moves has enabled me to do this difficult program and gradually work up to some of the full versions of the moves.
“My body has really been toning as I do this program, and the inches are melting from my waist line. Love it! I also keep track of my health stats and track my progress in weight loss, inches lost, my decreasing blood pressure and more. You can set up a free account through my Beachbody website.” https://www.teambeachbody.com/heartsongfit
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