Category: Self-Care
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5 Health Benefits of Getting Outside
For many of us, getting out in the fresh air and sunshine (or even rain) just intuitively feels good. We seem to know, on some level, that nature has the ability to lift our mood, calm an anxious mind, and help us feel a little more connected to ourselves and the world around us. It…
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5 Simple Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
Stress can really drain you, but stress-relief is free and accessible to nearly anyone, anywhere with these 5 simple yoga poses . Doesn’t that take the edge off a little? Practicing yoga is a proven way to calm the nervous system: It can lower your blood pressure, provide relief for chronic back pain and even…
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5 Ways to Beat Stress in Under 5 Minutes
With work, family, social and societal pressures surrounding us in our modern lives- who doesn’t get stressed? Allie and I spend a lot of time educating people on the effects of stress, and ways to alleviate it. We teach that the opposite of stress is resilience. When you learn healthy tools to cope with…
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How to Uncover Your Healthiest Self in the New Year
We like to take a slightly different approach to New Year’s Resolutions. Rather than holding ourselves to unrealistic standards, as many resolutions around diet and lifestyle do (stop eating carbs, exercise everyday, quit sugar), we like to approach the New Year by developing a vision that excites and inspires us. When we articulate our vision, we…
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9 Tips to Stay Light & Vibrant During the Holidays
I love the Holidays, many of us do, but I don’t love the fatigue, stress, and expanded waist lines that are all too often associated with the season of giving and receiving. This got me thinking, what nuggets of advice can I share with you? I have put together my best, simple tips for staying…
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20 Inspiring Quotes on Health, Life & Balance
What is ‘holistic health’? According to the dictionary, the word holistic is defined as: “characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.” So, when we use the word in reference to our health, what we mean is the picture of health that includes not only the…
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3 Ways to Feel More Energetic at Work
Forty hours a week sitting in a chair can take a toll on your body. Computer screens, and even good old-fashioned reading on paper, can strain your eyes. Remaining in one position for long periods, coupled with the mental stress of a workday, can lead to patterns of holding muscle tension in areas such…
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5 Practices for a Longer and Healthier Life
Aging is a natural and inevitable phenomenon, starting at birth and continuing until the moment we die. Due to modern medicine and hygiene standards, lifespans across the globe are longer than ever, but what about our healthspan? Unfortunately, there is a widening discrepancy in this country between healthspan and lifespan; those that live both long…
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Two Important Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Relationship with Food
There is so much that we can learn from our relationship with food. Whether it be characterized by deprivation, indulgence, guilt, love, fear, anxiety, distraction, companionship, happiness, survival, or a combination of the above, what and how we eat provides us with a window into our tendencies and habits, and perhaps even the imbalances in…
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Christina’s Story: How Stress Manifested in My Body & What it Taught Me About Health & Happiness
Thinking back to Fall 2014, I thought I was doing everything right in terms of good health. I was exercising daily, eating whole foods and getting enough water and sleep. I had been working in a corporate environment for almost a year at that point and had finally gotten into the swing of things. Being…