Improve Your Relationships by Learning About Emotional Maturity and Emotional Blindness Dr. Rose Bricker Emotional maturity or emotional intelligence are terms that you may hear when chatting about challenges within relationships. Your friends, families, and co-workers may be aware of these terms, but are you? Relationships are difficult at times, and knowing the difference between…
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July 2025, Features
2 Your Health: Loneliness: How It Impacts Our Life
Dr. Rose Bricker The former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murphy published an article with the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2023. In that article, he stated that we have an epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in the U.S. He goes on to say, “It is so prevalent…
May 2025, Generals
Spring Grandkids’ Day
Lyn Moreno The sounds of excited children’s laughter and lots of giggles filled the air on the Saturday morning before Easter. The children were participating in the annual Grandkids’ Day, organized by the SaddleBrooke TWO Fitness, Wellness, and Recreation Committee and hosted by the SaddleBrooke Swim Club and Paper Crafters Club. This year, more than…
Features, March 2025
2 Your Health: Emotional Maturity and Emotional Blindness
Dr. Rose Bricker Emotional maturity, or sometimes called emotional intelligence, are terms that we may hear today when chatting with our friends, families, and co-workers about relationships. But what do those two terms even mean? Some Characteristics of an Emotionally Mature Person • They are realistic and accept reality on its terms and make the…
Clubs & Classes, March 2025
Dr. Crawford Returns to Speak on Extending Longevity and Maintaining Functionality
Varda Main The SaddleBrooke Plant Based Nutrition Group is pleased to bring back Dr. Ted Crawford to speak on “How to Stay Young, Functional, and Reverse Disease” on Friday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in the DesertView Performing Arts Center. Everyone’s talking about how to stay young, vital, and active. Dr. Crawford will discuss anti-aging…
March 2025, Generals
Creating the Life You Want
Barbara Barr Bengen “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot Do you ever feel like you get so caught up in living life by default that you forget to ask yourself this important question: What do I really want my life to be like? Sometimes it is difficult…
February 2025, Features
2 Your Health: Are You Having Difficulty Finding Joy, Peace, and Contentment?
Dr. Rose Bricker Are you feeling sad, dissatisfied, irritable, stressed, frustrated, and just “stuck” in life? We may not even know why we’re having these feelings. One thing that may be helpful to consider is the health of your nervous system. Are you trapped in the sympathetic nervous system (survival mode) that keeps you in…
January 2025, Features
2 Your Health: January 2025
The New Year, Start Out with Your Quality of Life Heidi Overman Quality of life is valued, especially when we retire. We want to be able to retire and have a great quality of life. But what does that actually mean? Each person may have a different opinion as to what their quality of life…
Generals, January 2025
Hack Your Fitness Resolutions with 4 by 4
Vera Shury Save the date of Jan. 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One Arts and Crafts Center, Room 3. The speaker will be Dr. Michaela Gaither, physical therapist. The 4 by 4 is a jumpstart to a possibility of recovering years of muscle and strength. The plan is 4 weeks 4 times a…
December 2024, Generals
Join Us for Our Next Recreation and Activities Fair
Candy Armstrong Please join us on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, for the SaddleBrooke TWO Recreation and Activities Fair at the MountainView ballroom. The event will run from 8 to 11 a.m. This is always an exciting and busy event where clubs and social groups showcase their activities and inform prospective members. This event is coordinated…