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Clarksville Living Magazine — January 2022

The January 2022 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine opens the year with a women's health checklist grounded in current screening guidance and a case for trading vague resolutions for SMART goals.

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The cover feature is a practical women's health checklist, timely at a moment when nearly 16% of adult women report being in fair or poor health and many put off visits during 2021. It lays out where the guidance actually stands: a Pap test every three years for women 20 to 65, a combined Pap and HPV test every five years for those 30 to 65, and the option to stop Pap screening after 65. Clinical breast exams are recommended every one to three years for women 20 to 39, with annual exams and mammograms beginning at 40.

The numbers make the case. According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year relative survival rate for localized breast cancer is 99% when the disease is caught early. “When you detect a disease early, you can prevent complications and improve quality of life,” says Michael Hibbs, a family nurse practitioner at Tennova Family Medicine – Tiny Town. “Patients who diligently go to their screenings may change the course of their lives.”

The companion feature reframes the new year itself. Instead of the resolutions most people abandon by February, it walks through SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound — as a more durable way to actually change a habit, whether that means quitting smoking, eating better or losing weight.

Together the two pieces set a deliberately useful tone for the year: less about grand declarations than about the concrete, scheduled, doable steps — a screening booked, a goal written down — that make a difference over the long run.

Around those features, the issue carries the community's new-year calendar and the local coverage that anchors each month, opening 2022 on a note of practical self-care rather than empty ambition.

Table of Contents

  • Women'S Health Checklist (p. 6)
  • Serenity Now: Pure Sweat Clarksville (p. 8)
  • The Independent Order Of Odd Fellows (p. 12)
  • Smart Goals Instead Of Resolutions (p. 14)
  • Living Ink With 3D Printing (p. 16)

Regular departments

  • Calendar Of Events (p. 20)
  • Network (p. 28)

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