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5 Evidence Backed Ways to Lose Weight Fast
Americans spend more than $60 million dollars on weight loss products and supplements each year, according to U.S. News and World Report. That's a lot of people spending a lot of money on weight loss programs and supplements. Many don't realize the productivity rule...
Hanging On to Summer with Recipes to Make Your Mouth Water
This is a guest post by Renee Tarantowski Baude. Summer is fading. Kids are going back to school, and Fall is right around the corner. If you're not ready to give up Summer yet here are recipes that will make your mouth water. Disaster Averted with a Lemon and...
Sleep: Restoring Both Mind AND Body
This is a guest post by Amy Highland. Most aspects of your health that are impacted by sleep. Appetite control, metabolism, emotional stability, and muscle recovery can all be benefited by getting more sleep. But what does sleep do exactly? How does it help? What...
My Unexpected Collision With Yoga
A guest post by Mike Brennan. How does an overweight, middle-aged man come to create yoga art? (It has nothing to do with being creepy, either.) That’s a great question because I would never have thought I’d end up here. I’m more of the movies/pop culture/video games...
Why You Need to Start Showing Up
A guest post by Laura Peill. This is a letter to all of those people who are at a place where it is time to start. At a place where they know, there is a leap coming, or a dive into the unknown, or the need for a change. Or for the people who have made the leap and...
6 Ways To Improve Your Bladder Health
This is a guest post by Ren Williams. The bladder is an overlooked but vital organ in the human body. Often we only think about its health when something goes wrong. But it’s important to look after your bladder now to avoid complications later in life. There are...
What I’ve Gained from a Twenty Year Yoga Practice
This is a guest post by K. Kris Loomis. Art by Mike Brennan I recently posted a picture of myself on Facebook, a picture of me in a yoga posture. I rarely post pictures of me doing yoga because I figure most people are about as interested in seeing pictures of my yoga...
What Makes a Person so Happy His Heart Sings?
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
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....
How an Eye on your Money is a Perpetual Eye on your Health
Finances can set you free or enslave you. They set the tone for your health and wellbeing. When your relationship with money is good, it spills over into your people relationships and how you empathize with others. Money cannot be the root of evil if it’s used well....
Why You Should Float your Troubles Away with Flotation Therapy
If you've ever wished you could slip into a Calgon moment and have your cares melt away you might consider flotation therapy. Floating, or sensory deprivation, is an old idea with a new name. It's really more like alone time. 40 million people in United States alone,...
How Being Weird Means Less Stuff, More Life
Stuff steals your joy and suffocates your life. Do you believe this? I do. I’m on a mission to become weird. Dave Ramsey says, “Don’t be broke. Be Weird”. He suggests to look at what everyone else is doing and run the other way. The Joneses want stuff: cars, houses,...
You Didn’t want it, but it Sneaked in Anyway. Now You Have it, and Can’t Wait to be Rid of it Fast
How do you get flu relief? You have the flu and you want to feel better fast. You washed hands, kept hands away from your face, stayed away from sick people, kept hydrated, and ate healthy foods, but the slimy little germs crept in any way. Maybe you even got the flu...
8 Creative Ways to Grow Your Spirit this Spring
This is a guest post by Janis Cox. Each year we head back to Canada in early April. Before we leave our winter home in Arizona we have to clean and tidy our house, cover the furniture, shut off the service and get it ready to sit vacant for the summer. It’s already...
The Best Advice from a Doctor
This guest post is by Renee Tarantowski Baude. I walk into the office 3 kids under 5 clinging to me and big-as-a-barn-pregnant. It was Spring and I had thought I just had a sore throat but turns out it was a huge abscess thing . . . somewhere in my mouth that he could...
Social Media is the Downfall of Your Health and Real-Life-Thriving Relationships
Spend time where it really matters and be happier Social media is harming your health and your real-life relationships. You don’t want food, to roll over and kiss your spouse, or hurry to wrap your arms around your kids. You are happy snuggling down under the covers...