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8 Ways To Meditate, Without Meditating

One of the best ways to get away from it all quickly and easily is with meditation. It’s free, easy to do and can be done anywhere you can find a quiet spot. Meditation’s benefits are legion – it helps cultivate adaptability, resilience, and reduces reactivity (as well as the lashing out that can accompany it), while offering brain and heart protection; better immunity, mood, sleep, feelings of calm; reduced anxiety, pain sensitivity, etc.

Our Best Weapon Against COVID-19 May Be in the Kitchen

You could wait around for a vaccine to protect you from COVID-19. Or you could use a weapon already here, close at hand, in your kitchen. It is diet – but not just any diet. It is a low-carbohydrate diet.

Health Coach Tip - Grain-Free Baking Flours

There’s been a lot of pandemic baking over the last few months. And while home baking is always better, especially if you have mastered sourdough, it’s still important to think about overall sugar intake and refined flours are a big culprit. What's a baker to do?

9 Reasons The Pandemic’s Sapping Your Energy - and How to Fix It

To power through all those pandemic-generated Zoom-calls, hours of parenting, and tending to the rest of our busy lives, we need energy and plenty of it. But for a lot of us dealing with "crisis fatigue," that much needed energy is exactly what's in short supply.

Can EMDR Change Your Brain?

Why eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.

Health Coach Tip - Rethink Breakfast

We are big fans of a low carbohydrate diet. While every person can handle a different amount of carbohydrates, overdoing it can contribute to a host of issues. A common (panicky) question we get when helping people transition to a lower carb diet is “What am I going to eat for breakfast?!”

10 Ways to Move Your Body More Thru the Pandemic

No matter what long-term changes COVID-19 may bring about in this country, one thing is for sure: it’s imperative that you keep your body moving and stay fit throughout the pandemic and beyond. Not doing so comes at too high a price, the weaker your body is, the easier it may be for the virus to get a foothold inside it, and the worse the outcomes if you do get sick.

Ever-Changing Epidermis: How Life During a Pandemic Affects Skin

Our skin is constantly changing. I’ve always touted that there’s no such thing as skin types. It can change daily. We can wake up with dry skin and go to sleep with oily skin. This is even more relevant right now. Our lifestyles during the pandemic are creating a host of new skin issues.

Health Coach Tip - Keep Snacks in Your Bag

Do you ever find yourself without good food options? It happens to even the most prepared of us!

9 Ways to Become a Healthy Home Chef, No Matter Your Skills

When you’re not a natural in the kitchen or you’re short on space or you’re feeling pressed for time, it’s easy to slide back into old cooking-averse habits. But if you simplifying the process and have the right tools, you can, dare we say it, idiot-proof your cooking at home skills. Here are a few tips on how to do just that, and a few good reasons why you should.

7 Gut-Healing Foods

What you eat can help relieve digestive symptoms and build a more resilient gut.

Health Coach Tip - Label Reading Short-Cuts

No matter how healthy we are, there’s no getting around buying some processed and packaged foods, in fact, many of them aren’t bad! We buy olive oil, vinegars, pickles, coconut milk, tomatoes, sauces, nuts/seeds, beans, and more - and they are part of a healthy diet.

Your Anti-COVID-19 Menu – What to Eat Now!

Every day, as we learn more and more about what makes the COVID-19 virus tick, and we start to understand important things we can do right now to protect ourselves, we realize they all can be supported by the foods we eat!

Resilience, Compassion, and Science for Healing Today

The Dalai Lama shares his insights into resilience and compassion during these complicated times.

Health Coach Tip - What's the Deal with Nightshades?

11 Ways to Send Quarantine Constipation Packing

Constipation is one of those all-too-common health annoyances that virtually everyone suffers through from time to time. Granted the occasional bout is disruptive and can make you feel, dare we say it, crappy, frequent bouts can be a warning – or at least a nudge from your gut telling you to start paying it more attention.

Weekly Roundup 6/14 – The Latest Informative Coronavirus News

Weekly roundup of the latest informative coronavirus news hand selected by Dr. Frank Lipman. Check back for more each week.

5 Ways Vegetable Oils Are As Bad For Health As Sugar

For years, my wellness colleagues and I have designated sugar as the number one dietary evil, a true destroyer of health. And, though most people still eat way too much of it, U.S. consumption is finally on a slow decline. But the battle for your health is far from over. There is another killer on the loose and that one is ‘vegetable’ oil. In my opinion, the stuff is just as big a problem as sugar and should be eliminated from our diets just as quickly.

Weekly Roundup 6/7 – The Latest Informative Coronavirus News

Weekly roundup of the latest informative coronavirus news hand selected by Dr. Frank Lipman. Check back for more each week.

Health Coach Tip - What's the Deal with Corn

9 Ways To Embrace Optimism – And Why You Must!

Some people are born optimistic, while others choose it, learn to embrace it, or, resist it altogether. But in the middle of a pandemic, maintaining optimism may require more effort, even for those who don’t usually struggle.

Weekly Roundup 5/31 – The Latest Informative Coronavirus News

Weekly roundup of the latest informative coronavirus news hand selected by Dr. Frank Lipman. Check back for more each week.

Health Coach Tip - What's Your Night Time Ritual

With all the stress and anguish surrounding us right now, we need a good night’s sleep more than ever. It’s the perfect time to make your night time routine a little more personalized.

The Many Ways to Protect Yourself in a Post-COVID Lockdown World

Here’s a silver lining in the pandemic we’re all stuck in the middle of. With each passing day, we learn more about the COVID-19 virus and how it behaves. That, in turn, inches us closer to winning the battle against it. But we’re still in the early stages, with many more questions than answers.