Cris Duvall is a retired Dental Hygienist and has transformed her grief story into helping people discover what they want out of life. Cris is no stranger to loss, having lost two of her brothers as well as her father early on in life. However, when her husband passed away suddenly, and she had to take him off of life support, she made a conscious choice not to let her grief consume her. She shares how the act of thinking positive and not letting the woes and her sorrows get her down when she is getting the most out of life.

Key Takeaways:

• Cris shares her grief stories. Her husband passed away suddenly.
• When her husband passed, Cris made the conscious decision that she wasn't going to regret his loss. You can't change the past, you have to move forward.
• The majority of our thoughts influence our brain.
• Positive thoughts produce dopamine and less cortisol in your body, which is known to seriously impact your physical body negatively.
• Stress kills. You need to make a choice to change your mindset or you're at risk of dying too.
• When Cris took her husband off of life support. She promised him she was going to make the rest of her life matter.
• For his sake, she couldn't stay looking backwards.
• We can have a profound impact on our brain and our health just by our thoughts.
• When you give back, you help both the other person and yourself.
• Cris was sick of her friends asking her 'how are you?'. She instead asked them to ask her, 'tell me something great that happened today'.
• Cris wanted her friends to ask her action questions.
• How can you think good things all the time when you feel like absolute crap?
• We don't have to stay in that place of feeling so crummy and so sad.
• Think, feel, and choose. You can do it.

Resources:

Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health Book by Caroline Leaf