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    Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I
    Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I
    Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I
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    Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I

    By Melodie Holman with Kristie Abruzzo

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    This book is about supporting another woman in your life for health and wellness.
    A while back, on an eighteen mile run, something in me changed and a few months later I found myself asking the question to God or the Universe, “What is my purpose here? I lost ninety-eight lbs and ran a marathon for some reason, what is it??? What do you want me to do?”
    It hit me smack in the face as I sitting in my recliner making up a Power Point presentation for a Let’s Lose It class at the YMCA. I told myself this:
    “I want other women find the same feeling that I had on that run. I want women who feel like they can’t change, can’t be fit, can’t lose weight, can’t be strong to know this is possible. I want “real life women” to know this is possible. I want women to feel what I felt; I want them to know what feeling strength and power is like; I want them to be selfish enough to take back their health knowing the benefits to their family, their community and the globe.
    This is a great step forward, please join me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMelodie Holman with Kristie Abruzzo
    Release dateNov 8, 2013
    ISBN9781311452658
    Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I
    Author

    Melodie Holman with Kristie Abruzzo

    Melodie Holman is the co-founder of a small start-up not-for-profit organization named Your Turn.In October of 2009, she stood on the scale at her doctor’s office and told herself she was fat. She is the mother of five children and over the last three and a half years lost one hundred pounds, ran a marathon, and started a woman’s movement. She also lost their home to a forced short sale during the Great Recession.Mel’s journey started in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan until Kalamazoo called to her through the voice of her sister Michelle. Mel and her two children, Alex and Molly moved to Kalamazoo in 1999. There she met and married the love of her life, Jimmy Holman, and together they added three amazing boys to their family, Clarke, Pryor and Walter.In addition to her passion for her family, Mel has a passion for the health and wellness of women. She throws herself into this passion everyday with the gusto and energy of a teenager.

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      Your Turn Women Supporting Women for Health and Wellness Volume I - Melodie Holman with Kristie Abruzzo

      Your Turn:

      Women supporting women for health and wellness

      Volume I

      Copyright 2013 by Melodie Holman

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      All rights reserved. No part or portion of this book may in any form or my any means be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without prior written permission from the author.

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      ISBN: 978-1492395218 (pbk)

      This book is dedicated to my husband Jimmy for being my

      biggest, most trusted supporter.

      acknowledgments

      We like to think we can do anything we choose on our own, but few accomplishments can be made fully alone. From birth, we need a mother, school, work, and even at death, we need someone to arrange a final resting place. Going it alone isn’t an option. I live and breathe support from my family, friends and the women involved in Your Turn, so I wish I could acknowledge everyone – but the book won’t have any space left.

      When I first found myself purposefully supporting women toward health goals, I immediately contacted Ken Detloff of the YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo. If ever a man believed in me fully (other than my husband Jimmy) he is Ken Detloff. I don’t know what I would have done when if he had said, Too big of a dream, Mel. He was the first person outside of Jimmy who showed me the meaning of the word Genshai – which I understand to mean to never treat another person in a manner that makes them feel small. I am grateful for his faith in me and my idea; his understanding that support and kindness may be the only difference between a woman choosing to put her health on the calendar or sit back down in the recliner.

      Thankfully I receive daily doses of miracles, and one such miracle is Kristie Abruzzo. Kristie seemed to immediately see me, not in a you know Mel…. way, but in a way that said, I will support you and your vision. I go back and forth, fast and slow, on everything from starting another group and moving Your Turn across the country; or in the completely opposite direction of I just want to be a stay-at-home mom again. She always lets me get it all out, picks up on important pieces and serves them back to me in a tangible way. She allows me the space to get out-of-the-box creative or angry when things aren’t moving fast enough, without criticism or condemnation. Not only would we not have an office without her, but this book would not have happened either.

      I would also like to acknowledge Chris Lampen-Crowell and all the staff at Gazelle Sports. Their support has been amazing and so helpful. There were times when I would have given up if they had not been willing to help with so much of the administrative tasks.

      In addition, I would like to acknowledge Bronson Athletic Club, YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo, Just Move Fitness and 10th Street Fitness as places and staff who host Your Turn and support all the goals we strive to achieve.

      about the author

      Melodie Holman is the co-founder of a small start-up not-for-profit organization named Your Turn.

      In October of 2009, she stood on the scale at her doctor’s office and told herself she was fat. She is the mother of five children and over the last three and a half years lost one hundred pounds, ran a marathon, and started a woman’s movement. She also lost their home to a forced short sale during the Great Recession.

      Mel’s journey started in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan until Kalamazoo called to her through the voice of her sister Michelle. Mel and her two children, Alex and Molly moved to Kalamazoo in 1999. There she met and married the love of her life, Jimmy Holman, and together they added three amazing boys to their family, Clarke, Pryor and Walter.

      In addition to her passion for her family, Mel has a passion for the health and wellness of women. She throws herself into this passion everyday with the gusto and energy of a teenager.

      Your Turn was created in the fall of 2011 when she and Dawn Marciniak found themselves looking at each other in the locker room of the local YMCA, saying, This is what I want to do. Turns out, they both wanted to do the same thing primarily because the two of them, along with two other wonderful women, had worked together as a tribe to reach their running goals. Mel and Dawn ran their first marathon in May of 2011. They experienced firsthand the power of women working together for health, fitness, and a compelling goal.

      A Letter from Mel

      Good Morning Ladies (This is how I

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