About Gloria

Who Is Gloria Woodruff?

I am so many things:  a mother, a daughter, a sister, a grandmother, a rider, a Bed and Breakfast owner, a Westie Breeder, a gardener, a Direct Marketer and so many other people.  We all are.  We all wear so many hats, but all in such different ways because we have had such different experiences.   This is one of the things that makes us all so unique and thus so wonderful.

I was born loving animals, especially horses.  My Dad was is the Life Insurance business and we moved all the time.   Actually, I was in 13 different schools in 12 years. 

He promised me a horse when he became a Manager, so when I was 16 we began to look for one.  Since that first horse, Miss Ginger, I have rarely been without one.

When I was in Grade nine, I learned for the first time of God’s love for me and that He had died to save me.  I accepted Him as my personal Savior and that has made all the difference in my approach to life. 

In my home my mother stayed home rather than going out to work so I was brought up on healthy, home cooked meals, and great ones at that, as my mother was a wonderful cook.  That is probably where my love of healthy food began.  When I was out on my own, I seldom bought prepackaged food; it never had the good taste that I was used to.  I have continued like that to the present, even though it takes longer to make a meal and longer to clean up.  I want my 7 year old to have healthy food.

I have had various jobs:  a YWCA Programme Director, a Summer Missionary, a Church Secretary, a Guidance Counsellor, an ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor at a community college, and finally a classroom teacher, first for ESL and then for Grades 2/3 and Junior Kindergarten.

TO BE CONTINUED

ABOUT MY BLOG

I am not a Health Professional but I have always been interested in health and am doing a lot of learning in all aspects of health.

I used to think that good health was the outcome of simply eating correctly and taking supplements.  Of course these are very important but there is so much more.

Good health is much more than the absence of illness.  But again many people assume if they are not sick, they are well.  Good health is so much more than even this.

Also, many people think that good health is just the absense of disease, but it is so much more than that.

What wonderful bodies we have!  They have all the necessary components for self healing and they are continually healing themselves in many ways. 

As we grow older though, it is much more difficult for them to do this as they get overwhelmed.  Polution, smoking, poor diet and other unhealthy influences may have added to the damage in our bodies.

In this blog, I want to discuss various fascinating aspects of our bodies.  I hope you will make comments and give me feedback.  I will value all your views.

My belief is that we need to take care of our own health and let doctors take care of our sickness.

ABOUT GLORIA