All around the world, incredible Stitchers are doing great things for the members of their communities. We call these members our Stitch “Ambassadors”, and two of the most amazing ambassadors we have are Debbie & Chris from Chandler, Arizona. We’d like to share their story with you. Debbie joined Stitch in early 2019, when SilverSneakers […]
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Finding your fellow Stitchers at an event can sometimes be difficult, especially if you’re meeting other members for the very first time and don’t know what they look like. So we decided to ask some of our community members what they do to stand out when at Stitch Events. Let’s take a look at some
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Sydney based Community Champion Richard wrote the following post about his experience as the organizer of the 🥗 Inaugural Sydney Stitchers Multicultural Yummalicious ‘Share Plate’ Picnic 🍾, a highly successful and fun Stitch event held on March 24th 2019. WHAT A DAY, WHAT A SCRUMMYLICIOUS DAY! The greatest joy of Stitch is meeting new friends and
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One of the best ways to get to know other members of the Stitch community is by creating and attending events. Sydney based Community Champion, Linda, wrote the following post about her own experiences as the organizer of the Inner West Brunch Bunch, a monthly (and popular!) Stitch get-together where locals meet and get to
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For most people, the holiday season is a time for festivities and merriment. It’s a time for carolling around the Christmas tree and indulging in eggnog. A time for catching up with loved ones, showering them with gifts and feasting on a grand turkey dinner together. For many, the holiday season is a time for
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Positive lifestyle choices are increasingly showing to have beneficial effects on our brain health, to the extent we can now help reduce types of dementia such as the most common, Alzheimer’s disease. In 2016, the University of California, Los Angeles released results from a four year study which monitored ten people who had a a
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Smallpox. Cholera. The plague. Infectious diseases as the above automatically spring to mind when we think of epidemics. What doesn’t automatically spring to mind is loneliness. Or social isolation. However that is exactly how loneliness and social isolation is being heralded – as a 21st century epidemic. While not physically contagious as your typical epidemic
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When dedicated social media accounts are set up to expose the lewd and inappropriate comments and behaviour of men on online dating forums, you know we have a problem. An increasing number of women are coming forward to expose the lewd and inappropriate comments and behaviour of men, and social media accounts such as Alexandra
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The year is 1981, and two groups of men in their 70s and 80s are taken to an old monastery in New Hampshire. The monastery, they discovered, was decorated as if it were 1959, 22 years in the past. Everything from the furniture and carpet was from the 50s. Life magazine was scattered around the
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In developed nations, women live on average 6-7 years longer than men. This is true in all locations except for one – Sardinia, a remote and mountainous Italian island in the Mediterranean. It is here where longevity is prevalent among women and men. It is in Sardinia where you will find six times as many
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