What does staying fit mean to you? When you hear the word fit are you imagining something to do with physical fitness? How can we expand our idea of what being fit means? These are all important questions to ask ourselves. In order to be fit, we need to look at our own physical, mental,…
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Heartfelt Tips for Dealing with a Cancer Diagnosis
When you’ve been given a cancer diagnosis, it’s easy to lose your way and be uncertain about where to turn in your hour of need. Not only is dealing with a cancer diagnosis physically draining, but it’s also mentally draining as well. Knowing what to expect, and making plans for how to proceed going forward…
The New Normal: Working Remotely
Due to the pandemic, many people now find themselves working remotely, from home. With everyone in your family also sheltering in place, completing tasks may be difficult versus the office, where you are on your own. However, despite the challenges, there are ways to overcome the obstacles. The Office In order to remain productive and…
Simple Tips for Making Work-from-Home Work for You
If working from home makes you uncomfortable, you might need to make a few improvements. For starters, change your attitude for a more pleasant experience. These simple tips can make your work-from-home experience a lot easier. Have a Positive Mindset Being positive can help motivate you to be more productive. For instance, try smiling more…
Tips to Remaining Healthy
Do you ever find yourself sort of losing interest in having a healthy diet and exercising? You may have been gung-ho for a couple of weeks and then your determination to get in shape faded rapidly, and you made a rapid descent to your bad, old health habits. What if, rather than making uber changes…
How to Focus on Wellness During a Time of Crisis
Whether your crisis is deeply personal or it is shared with every human being on the planet, its effects can work their way into your very core. The stress, sadness, and sense of loss can begin to touch you on a molecular level. We all deal with times of crisis in our own way; however,…
Obesity & Me – The Fight I Can Never Give Up On
I was compensated by Med-IQ through an educational grant from Novo Nordisk to write about the realities of obesity as a chronic disease. All opinions are my own. If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know that I preface almost every situation with a comment about my size. My perceived weight, really my…
Why the #*@% is Everyone Talking About Carbs?!
There seem to be two very specific camps of people right now. The camp that believes all carbs are bad and we should stay far, far away from them via GIPHY and The camp that believes carbs are everyone’s best friend and that we should all be eating plenty of them. via GIPHY There’s seemingly…
5 Safe Skin Tips for Summer
What you put on your skin is as important as not getting too much sun. But we’re all human and sometimes we lose track of time which means our skin gets overexposed from time to time. That’s why it’s important to have a product on hand that can help soothe your skin as an after-sun…
Energizing Citrus Body Scrub
This easy to make body scrub is the best way to get the smoothest legs imaginable when you shave. It also works on other body parts, but let’s keep it clean, shall we?