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Home
About
What is Photovoice?
About our Photovoice project
Results
Connections
Habits
Service
Spirituality
Stigma
One person's story
Contact
Habits
Healthy habits were described in many different ways and could be seen in the photographs through regular exercise and fitness groups, nutrition awareness and support groups, and growing, cooking and sharing healthy meals.
We didn’t start out doing a mile, we started out doing a quarter mile, and each day we went one driveway further.His comment when he saw the picture was “you can walk a mile in these shoes”.
He and I started last year with some tomato plants, and we didn’t realize that they were cherry tomato plants, and we wanted big beef steak tomatoes, so last year we had lots of salads which is health and wellness. This year we got the city seed coupons … and we bought beefsteak tomato seeds
There’s three of us working out in the basement there. The weights have been added in the last year. The first few years we didn’t have much equipment, I would do a chair stretch class because they couldn’t get on the floor. Now we run around the building, we do weights, we do kettle bells.
When we walk, he shares with me some of his troubled past and how he is recovering from it, he shares his gratitude for being able to live independently in the community where as three or four years ago he was in a nursing home unable to stand up on his own.
He is a very avid cook, so I wanted to express him doing what he loves. It’s a nice kitchen and it’s through the grant that he’s been provided this time.
I first started working with him, his goal was that he wanted to be able to reach down and touch the ground. He had seen somebody who was limber and was able to do that. He had a very difficult time even bending down to put his shoes on. He had no flexibility. So now, every time we get together to exercise he says “I touched the ground” but he can go all the way, he can do 50 pushups.
Participant: My thinking when I took it was that if I really wanted to, I could take a train from my house to work, thereby promoting health and wellness. Interviewer: how do you get to work? Participant: I drive …
He and I always take about weight lifting, and getting big, and that’s his thing, having muscles, he does push-ups all the time.
I was really surprised to get him smiling with that one … his bicycle is his primary transportation, and so, it’s good exercise for him. He goes to the soup kitchen a lot, and he does work intermittently, like little side jobs.