How to Create a Self-Care Checklist
How to create a Self-Care Checklist might be the single most important thing you can do for yourself. There’s nothing selfish about escaping into a self-care checklist to seek your center. Caring for yourself is what it sounds like—committing the time and space to melt away your daily stresses and focus on you. Standing up […]
The Blessings of A Slab Leak — PODCAST
The Blessings of A Slab Leak is a podcast I recorded to reflect on the hidden blessings that we found when our ceilings were opened up. It seems like a metaphor to me that we need to be “cracked open” to find the hidden blessings. It is messy and uncomfortable and through the haze of […]
Wellness Tips While Working From Home
Wellness Tips While Working From Home is needed as the pandemic has thrust many of us into a new work-from-home environment for the first time. It has thrown our daily routines out of balance and especially our wellness routines! Here are my Top Ten Tips for how I stay healthy while working remotely. Over my […]
20 Ways to Practice Self-Care in Under 20 Minutes
20 Ways to Practice Self-Care in Under 20 Minutes is designed to inspire you to find ways to incorporate self-care into your hectic routine. Do you wish you had more time to yourself, but your busy schedule doesn’t usually allow for it? It is important to care for ourselves using the little time we have. […]
Where is Our Psychological First Aid?- PODCAST
Where Is Our Psychological First Aid? I first learned of this term at the National Wellness Conference. Tramaine EL-Amin was a keynote speaker. She is the Assistant Vice-President of Strategic Initiatives National Council for Behavioral Health. Her talk was titled ” Mental Wellbeing: Always Important, Now Essential”‘ I was really drawn to the term “Mental […]
What Is Your Resilience Story? – The Secret Power of Stress PODCAST EPISODE 2
What is your resilience story? We all have challenges that shape our character and help us grow. The past few months have tested our resilience. I believe we are hardwired to not only recover from adversity, but also grow and transform. In this Podcast I talk about sharing your Resilience Story. I have completed Joel […]
Resilience and Thriving – The Secret Power of Stress PODCAST EPISODE 1
A tool in transforming stress into strength is our understanding of different levels of pain and happiness. Each of us tends to have a “set point”. What Is A Set Point? In reference to happiness, we all have a “set point” for the expected amount of joy, happiness or pain and anguish and we tend […]
Can “Lifestyle Medicine” Help Us With this Pandemic?
Can “Lifestyle Medicine” Help Us with this Pandemic? Many forward thinkers say yes! (including me). By “lifestyle” I mean the health behaviors we practice in our life. This includes all the things I have listed in “The healthy Lifestyle Solution” wheel. Our diet Physical activity Sleep Stress Management High Quality Supplementation Digestive health Detoxification Support […]
Gut Health and #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2020
Gut Health and #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2020 was June 27 2020. It came and went and I didn’t know! I love that the Microbiome has its own day! The human body contains over 10 times more microbial cells than human cells, although the entire microbiome only weighs about 200 grams, with some weight estimates ranging as high […]