How Your Current Diet Will Affect Your Future Self

by Nicole Akers | Food

It goes without saying that many people follow a healthy diet in hopes of achieving short-term goals like losing weight or improving their mood. While these are indeed wonderful benefits to reap from making good nutrition choices, your diet actually plays a vital role...

5 Ways to Prevent Falls in Seniors with Dementia

by Nicole Akers | Food

Pexels *This is a guest post by Holly Clark The leading cause of injury-related deaths is falling, and those at a higher risk of falling are those with dementia. Some of the factors that contribute to the fall are their inability to tell other people about their...

How I Answered the Call to Give Up “Stuff” and Gained Freedom in the Process.

by Nicole Akers | Surprises

Here’s how we downsized and earned a wad of cash My family is leaving to hike El Camino. To get ready we downsized our possessions until they fit in a storage unit because we’re not sure when we’ll be back. Do you have extra stuff laying around? Some of it...

What Makes a Person so Happy His Heart Sings?

by Nicole Akers | Surprises

What makes a person happy? 350 million people live with depression according to the World Health Organization. Sixteen million adults in the United States have an episode with depression each year. That’s 6.9% of the population living in an unhappy state of being....

How to Keep your Mind Sharp and Keep Alzheimer’s from Killing You

by Nicole Akers | Body

Forty-four million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s, 5.5 million of them live in the United States. Of these numbers, most are over age 65, according to the Alzheimer’s News Today. An Alzheimer’s diagnosis brings emotion and stress for the patient and the caregiver....