Health Ambassadors
Healthy after-school snacks offered at NCHS
Partnership and collaboration are key ingredients to implementation. We are blessed to have community leaders that identify resources that match our mission. Way to go North Central High School and Laurie Slade Funderburk! We are so proud of our Intern, Izzy Baipho, for her ongoing role in these activities and Mary Reames, our Intern Coordinator, for being the summer…
Read MoreHave you heard about Brain Breaks?
Have you heard about Brain Breaks? Here is our Camden High School – SC Health Ambassador, Deniah, leading Junior Leadership Kershaw County through “Breath of Joy” to get the blood flowing during their non-profit session! Less 🤯 and more 🤓 please! #HealthyCarolinas
Read More“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn”
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn” Hi, it’s me, Destiny. This week I’m going to talk about believing in yourself. Sometimes as humans, we can be our worst enemies. Personally, I always lacked self-confidence. I would always doubt myself when I had an objective or wanted to start something…
Read MoreAlways remember to take deep breaths
We live in a high-stress society so learning how to relive that stress is super important. An easy way to do this is practicing breathwork a little bit every day. Just taking deep even breaths helps relieve stress. -Izzy, NCHS #100MLives #HealthyCarolinas
Read MoreReading Labels
Today I will give you guys a health tip about reading the nutrition labels. On Tuesday this week Missi came to talk to us about nutrition labels and how to calculate the calories on prepackaged food. The important take away was whenever you read the ingredients make sure you can pronounce the words, because if…
Read MoreReflection from Deniah about LWK summer internship
This summer I have had a great experience working with my fellow interns, leaders in the community, and LiveWell Kershaw. There are a lot of things that I will take away from this summer such as how to eat healthier, manage my stress, and more. By far one of the most important things to me…
Read MoreReflection from Destiny about the LWK summer internship
WOW is all I can say. As I’m writing this, I’m trying to gather all my feelings. This summer has been very empowering to me. Before even taking this job, I wanted to work on finding myself. The definition of wow is expressing admiration. My wow moment would be this internship. I have learned so…
Read MoreThanks Ms. Campolong and Ms.Griggs for giving me new ideas to improve my health
Hey everyone, it’s me Destiny Harris, your Lugoff-Elgin intern. This week we talked about stress. We had a special guest named Tina Stokes Griggs from the The ALPHA Behavioral Health Center. Ms. Griggs was awesome…she gave us some great tips on ways to relieve stress and how to recognize stress. We talked about things that stress people out…
Read More“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn Hi guys, it’s me, Destiny. This week I’m going to talk about believing in yourself. Sometimes as humans, we can be our worst enemies. Personally, I always lacked self-confidence. I would always doubt myself when I had an objective or wanted to start…
Read MoreTake a deep breath to relieve stress
We live in a high-stress society so learning how to relive that stress is super important. An easy way to do this is practicing breathwork a little bit every day. Just taking deep even breaths helps relieve stress. -Izzy, NCHS #100MLives #HealthyCarolinas
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