Prayer for Exercising Through Pain
I wrote this prayer nine months after my unexpected c-section. Residual pain from pregnancy and surgery made exercise more challenging...
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Tami McCandlish
Connecting Faith & Fitness
Stories about faith, fitness, and the healing of broken hearts, minds, and bodies
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Prepare to Fight
I don't know why I was surprised to have had an eight-pound, six-ounce baby considering my husband, Charlie, is 6'5". An eight-pound,...
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My Birth Story: Part 2
My baby had been in an optimal position most of my pregnancy. I wasn’t worried because I’d prayed, “Baby, I command you head down, face...
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Midwifery Mythery
Most people don’t know much about midwifery. I didn’t. From what I’d seen, home birth could be weird. I didn’t want some New Age...
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My Birth Story: Part 1
I was fully dilated. My midwives could see my baby. But after 24 hours of labor, Charlie and I were speeding to the hospital at 3:00 am....
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My Pregnancy Story
Nothing has ever knocked me on my butt harder than pregnancy. I love physical challenges, but there’s a big difference between doing...
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River's Ruby Anointing
For years, I prayed on and off about having children, never receiving total clarity. I believed procreation was God’s will, but it was...
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No Healing Too Small
I hesitated to write this story because I know a family who recently lost their 10-year-old to cancer. I hate it for them. I hate it for...
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One Angry Dad
He was an older dad, a 70-year-old gentleman, who served as the head of his department at the state university. He drove a Beemer and...
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Exercise Motivation Prayer
Lord, I don't feel like doing this today, but by my authority in Jesus, I cast away my emotions of (say whatever emotions hold you...
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Asserting Authority
Preacher, the dog-cat, will do anything for a treat. At least, I thought he would. Preach is a wild man at heart. He would take full...
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Stuffed Between Pumpkins
She came to work out. Instead, she spent the hour telling me about what her daughter was going through at school. I know how to guide a...
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Post-Injury Exercise Prayer
I know what it feels like to step in front of a plyometric box, recall a misstep, and feel my shin throb. To resist performing the same...
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Why I Work Out
Pre-season training for college basketball was one of my toughest challenges ever. My team and I had spent months running and lifting,...
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Exercise Recovery Prayer
Use this prayer in between workouts, when you’re sore, while you’re soaking in an Epsom salt bath, on walks, during stretches, as you lie...
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Combat the Warrior Cat
He could barely walk. With his hind legs tucked under his torso, he was literally and figuratively crossing a bridge in an area where...
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Weirdo at the Vet
Today, I took Itty to the vet for a re-check. A few days earlier, I had called to cancel another appointment. Except someone made a...
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Itty-Bitty Once Blind Kitty
I had just watched Itty-Bitty shimmy down a tree and sprint across the backyard. By the next morning, she was blind. Itty mostly hangs...
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4 Ways to Fuel Your Workouts
To stop starting then stopping, to overcome a funk, or to deepen your workouts, delve into these four fuels. 1. Nutrition. Typically, we...
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I'm No Anti-Bullying Speaker
I had just spoken to 100 students and left thirty of them in tears. As I sat in my car reflecting on their faces, shielded by their...
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