Clarksville Living Magazine — November 2018
The November 2018 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine makes healthy holiday choices, retrains the brain for gratitude, and lays wreaths for local heroes.
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“Making Healthy Choices” opens the issue with guidance for navigating the season's temptations, helping readers head into the holidays without abandoning their well-being — a practical lead-in to a month built around the table.
“Gratitude” takes a scientific turn, explaining how the deliberate practice of thankfulness — picturing the things you are grateful for and letting the feeling settle in the body — can actually reprogram the brain toward greater well-being, a fitting theme for the month of Thanksgiving.
The issue supports a season of giving with a wreath-sponsorship drive benefiting Resthaven, where sponsoring two wreaths earns a third free, boosted by Mission BBQ and its American Heroes Cup sales — small acts that honor the fallen as the holidays approach.
“Holiday Help” offers readers a hand with the season's logistics, and the recurring “National ___ Day” feature keeps up with the oddball holidays filling the calendar.
Together the features balance health, reflection and generosity, giving November both substance and heart as gratitude season arrives.
The recurring departments and photo pages round out a November issue built around gratitude in its fullest sense. Healthy choices for the season's temptations, a science-backed case for thankfulness, a wreath drive honoring the fallen, and a helping hand with holiday logistics all share the same pages — substance and heart in equal measure. It is the magazine leaning into the spirit of the month, reminding readers that gratitude is both a feeling worth cultivating and a practice with real benefits, and that the season of giving begins with small, deliberate acts of remembrance and care. Read together, the issue makes a gentle argument that the holidays are best approached with both intention and gratitude — caring for your health, remembering the fallen, and pausing to feel thankful for what the year has given. It is a grounded, heartfelt lead-in to the season. The gratitude feature keeps its list refreshingly small and human — colorful autumn leaves, friends who listen, funny texts, warm jackets, free Wi-Fi and a friendly barista all counted worthy of thanks — a reminder that the practice the issue champions begins with noticing the ordinary good all around us.
Table of Contents
- Making Healthy Choices (p. 8)
- Gratitude (p. 12)
- Holiday Help (p. 16)
- National ___ Day (p. 20)
Regular departments
- Calendar (p. 34)
- Fridge (p. 42)
- Network (p. 44)