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Jan 16, 2023 · Health & WellnessMake Healthy Habits Stick With ‘Habit Stacking’
As you wade into the waters of this brand new year, you can increase the odds of making positive changes stick by letting go of the old school all-or-nothing mentality that can torpedo good intentions (in a matter of days!). Instead, work on developing new healthy habits over time. What’s the best way to do that? One approach to consider, borrowed from behavioral science, is known as ‘habit stacking’ – it can help make 2023 a banner year for your body and your mind.
Jan 13, 2023 · Health & WellnessHow to Keep Winter Skin Well-Hydrated
Expert tips for maintaining moisture in your body’s largest organ — and why it’s vital for general and skin health.
Jan 11, 2023Health Coach Tip - Stay Active This Winter
As opposed to warmer times of the year, winter might make it harder to stay active. Here are some tips to stay fit this winter.
Jan 9, 2023 · Health & Wellness21 Immune System Boosters and ‘Triple-demic’ Fighters
This winter, it’s all about immunity and boosting yours needs to become a top priority, the sooner the better. The mission: to fortify your body against opportunistic invaders, make it harder for them to get a toehold into your system, and ideally, be able to repel them quickly if they do. To achieve the strongest immunity possible, I recommend a three-pronged approach that combines health-supporting foods immunity-boosting supplements, and pleasurable, health-boosting habits to pack your winter with wellness.
Jan 6, 2023 · NutritionWhen Should I Use Whole Spices Versus Ground Spices?
There is quite a difference between whole spices and ground spices — and it can bring your cooking to a whole new level when used correctly.
Jan 5, 2023 · Health & WellnessAll Is Calm: 5 Ways to Incorporate Feel-Good Moments into Busy Days
Check out quick ideas for resetting during the holiday season.
Jan 4, 2023 · Healthy AgingHealth Coach Tip - What is NAC?
Adding NAC into your supplement arsenal comes with many benefits, especially throughout flu season, and here’s why.
Jan 3, 2023 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Daily Habit Formation
Creating a new healthy habit – a regular practice that is hard to give up – is the best way to tackle any health goal. Here are some tips.
Jan 2, 2023 · Sleep9 Ways Your Sleep Position Can Help – or Harm – Your Health
With sleep taking up roughly a third of each day, it’s important to do it well. As you probably know first-hand, sleeping well can be easier said than done. Even in the best of times, sound sleep can be a challenge and the past few years have only added to it. While there are almost countless ways for a good night’s rest to be interrupted, perhaps one of the most overlooked is sleep position. If your body’s not in a comfortable, nicely aligned position, not only may you struggle to get your 40 winks, you may find other aspects of your health impacted as well.
Dec 30, 2022 · MovementWhat Are Good Stretches To Do After Sitting All Day
Long stretches of sitting — especially in cramped spaces like cars and airplanes— can wreak havoc on the body. Bring your body back to life with these four moves.
Dec 28, 2022 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Adaptogens For Immunity
While the holidays are a joyous time of year, they can also bring a lot of chaos. If you’re looking to reset after the holidays, adaptogens can help.
Dec 26, 2022 · Health & Wellness23 Wellness Wishes to Make this New Year Shine
With external change greeting us at just about every turn, among the positives to come out of it is internal: we’ve learned how to be more flexible; to persevere; to be a bit more patient and a lot more resilient – all skills that will serve us well as we embark on our journey into 2023. To honor the fresh start of this new year, rather than going into full-throttle, resolutions-or-bust mode, I encourage you to take a kinder, gentler approach: think ‘evolution’ not revolution.
Dec 23, 2022 · Gut Health8 Foods to Repair Your Gut
There are plenty of gut-repairing foods that you can incorporate into your diet in fun and delicious ways.
Dec 21, 2022 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – Virtual Winter Exercise
The weather is changing and it’s getting harder to get outside to exercise. Do you have a back up plan? Check out these online classes.
Dec 19, 2022 · Health & WellnessTop 10 Most Popular Blogs of 2022
Finding ways to incorporate new (or old) healthful habits into the day-to-day is essential. If you don’t know where to start, we have gathered our 11 top helpful (and health-full) blog posts of 2022 to optimize well-being in 2023!
Dec 16, 2022 · Health & WellnessHow Spirituality Can Improve Health
Research indicates that incorporating spirituality into a person's care produces a better chance of recovery.
Dec 14, 2022 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip – A Guide to Your 2023 Resolution
It's the end of the year, 2023 is right around the corner! It's time to reflect on lessons learned and think about what improvements can be made moving forward. Making and sticking to resolutions can be difficult, so this year, save yourself wasted time. Grab a journal and your favorite pen (or Notes on your phone or Google Docs or whatever works for you!) and explore these tips to create a sustainable resolution plan for the New Year.
Dec 12, 2022 · Healthy Aging7 Ways to Save Your Bones and Keep them Healthy
Bones are the scaffolding that holds us up and when they’re lashed together by connective tissue in joints, they allow us to move. When everything is working the way it should, they’re pretty easy to take for granted, that is until you take a tumble and fracture your wrist or your hip. That’s when many women discover that their bones are precariously thin, or worse, dangerously fragile. But, as I tell my patients, the time to wake up to the reality of thinning bone is now, before there’s a calamity and when there’s still time to slow down the loss of bone tissue.
Dec 9, 2022 · NutritionGut-friendly Foods
What you eat has a bigger impact on your microbiome and its ability to protect you from viruses than anything else you do.
Dec 7, 2022 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Are Candles Healthy?
Here are tips for choosing the healthiest candle!
Dec 5, 2022 · Health & Wellness8 Ways To Enjoy Winter – And Use It To Improve Your Health
While there’s no stopping winter’s arrival, with a bit of forethought, you can fend off much of the moodiness, lethargy, carb-cravings and depressive tendencies that can make the season anything but bright. What’s the secret to beating back the metaphorical darkness? Accept the inevitable, tend to your physical and mental health, and stack the deck with feel-good activities. Call it seasonal self-care or simply your winter battle plan, with a little forethought, you can make this the best winter ever. Here’s how…
Dec 2, 2022 · NutritionWhich Nutrients and Supplements Can Help Me Sleep?
A host of supplements — think melatonin, magnesium, and more — can help you drift off and sleep more soundly. And they’re typically safer than pharmaceuticals.
Nov 30, 2022 · Health Coach TipsHealth Coach Tip - Immunity-Boosters For This Flu Season
It’s a good time to bolster your immunity to get you through this flu season. When it comes to immunity-boosting, eating right and supportive supplements are very important, but they are not the only lifestyle choices to focus on. Here are some good habits to adopt for strong immune health!
Nov 28, 2022 · Sleep9 Ways to Use Melatonin Safely for Sleep
Increasingly, people are becoming more aware of the dangerous downsides of prescription sleep meds and switching to non-pharmaceutical alternatives. Enter melatonin supplement, which can have a place in your good-sleep program, that is, if you understand the pros and cons, what it can and can’t do. For many melatonin new-comers there’s a temptation to think of it as a sleep panacea or a cure-all, that’s it’s OK to pop a pill every night without giving it a second thought. Not so. Here’s how to use it wisely.