Today marks 45 days since I’ve had an alcoholic beverage. For a long time, I’ve known that alcohol didn’t agree with me. No matter how many, or how few, drinks that I had, I always suffered a hangover after drinking. Even just a couple of glasses of wine with dinner would leave me with a headache the next day. Aside from the physical effects–headaches, upset stomach, dehydration–drinking also took a…
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Do You Have Anxiety? Get support from BetterHelp
Read moreDo You Have Anxiety? Get support from BetterHelp According to the AADA, 40 million adults in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder per year. Even so, some people don’t have a diagnosis, whether that’s due to financial barriers to diagnosis or not recognizing…
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Time Management: Bullet Journaling & Habit Tracking
Read moreEach June, when we reach the half-point of the year, I like to reflect on my goals from the start of the year. I consider all that I accomplished in the first half of the year and all that that I plan to accomplish in…
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Simple Steps for a Detox During Lockdown
Read moreHello, friends! I hope that you are holding up okay. Here we are starting week six of lockdown. It’s almost unthinkable, but we are all struggling with negative thoughts, confusion and anxiety together. Each time I have this conversation, I come around to the same…
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Physical Wellness: Balanced Nutrition
Read moreHello, friends! Happy Monday. I hope that you had a lovely weekend. It was a good one, but also a strange one, for me. The weather was beautiful, the early spring that nature has been hinting at seems to be sticking around. We started working…
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Making Wellness a Priority in Motherhood
Read moreMotherhood has been such a beautiful journey thus far. With all of the life changes that I’ve gone through these last seven years, however, it wasn’t always easy. One of the things that I truly lost sight of in my early stages of motherhood, was…
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Exercising as a Family: Wellness for the Body & the Heart
Read moreIn yesterday’s post I mentioned that it was a gray, February day, and well… today we had more of the same. The fog has been as thick as pea soup all day and a steady drizzle endlessly falls from the sky. It’s a little bit…
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Whole Foods for Health
Read moreAs someone who struggled with my weight for the first half of my life, it breaks my heart to see others going through that pain. I was overweight from the time I was twelve-years-old until I was about twenty-two. Then during both of my pregnancies,…
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5 Tips for More Energy
Read moreThank you to the makers of 5-hour™ TEA shots for sponsoring this post. The last seven months of my life have been incredibly transformational. It all started a year ago, when I restarted my yoga practice in February of 2018. For me, yoga is a…