Fall 2022: MY Personal Appreciation Accounting

Here in the northeastern US, fall is a time of harvest and plenty. A season where we naturally feel compelled to celebrate the bounty of Mother Earth and a time to collectively take a few deep breaths and give thanks for all that has enriched our lives in the past year.

Gratitude lists are powerful health-promoting tools that many of us practice on a daily basis. Also, though, I like to do a season “Appreciation Accounting” and I would like to share my Appreciation Accounting 2022 with you.

This accounting is not about the deep appreciation I have for my friends, family, pets, and all the living world around me. It’s about my appreciation for you, the many thousands in our Better Bones community who for decades have encouraged and encouraged me to continue to rethink optimal bone health.

In this modern world there is so much fiction to separate from reality, and so much encouragement and hope to be given. Each of you has helped me carry on my life’s mission of empowering women to take charge of their bone and total body health. My decades-long quest to learn more and share more is motivated by each of you, your stories, your successes, and your challenges. I thank each of you.

And then there’s my team of brilliant, creative, and generous people whose mission is to help support my life’s work. Everything I have been able to accomplish at Center for Better Bones is due to the dedication and creativity of my Internal Power Squad.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people on the planet because I got to fulfill my life’s mission motivated by all of you and assisted by a strong, intelligent and creative team. This Thanksgiving, I am truly appreciative of all that we have done, all together, to fulfill this mission of empowering women. For all of us in the center for better bones 2022 will go down in the books as a year where we were able to help more and more women around the world. move from fear to empowerment—A year to appreciate indeed.

So here is my appreciation accounting by 2022:

1. My team and I were once again able to deliver two 4 days in person Better Bones Solution Retreats. One was at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC, and the other was just held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Massachusetts. It’s been almost 3 years since we last got to see each other in person, so they were super rewarding experiences.
2. This year we were able to interact with over 300 people in our 4-day virtual program. Better Bones Solution Retreats. The online connection to our retreats arose out of necessity during the pandemic, but this format turned out to be a blessing as we are able to help many more people around the world with our virtual retreats.
3. We built an expansive community (www.tribe.drsusanbrownphd.com). This tribe is a community that grows, shares and learns. It hosts 8 of my online courses, 4 of which are free. It also serves as a place where people can connect with one another to share successes and help each other on their journey to bone health.
4. we are creating Local chapters of Better Bones Builders. This is a wonderful new avenue for personal connection among members of our community. Now we can empower the leaders within our better bones community to house local meetings where individual better bones tribe members can talk in person and work toward their bone health goals.
5. I released my latest book, Natural Bone Health: A Guide for Professionals. This book is especially important because it responds to my clients and supporters who for many years have asked for information they could share with their doctors on how to build strong bones naturally.
6. I joined TikTok and it blew up! We gained 82K new friends in Tik Tok and learned a new way to share “bits” of health information that are fun and innovative.
7. We also found a way to offer accurate home tests for Vitamin D and Omega 3 levels
8. Also, we found a way to Better Bones Community members to access, at their own expense, the lab tests we recommend in our osteoporosis medical study. This greatly reduces the barriers to understanding your own health information. https://www.betterbones.com/osteoporosis/what-is-the-cause-of-your-osteoporosis/.

I look forward to all the blessings that 2023 brings and to continue serving our community by striving for better bone and body health!