Category: Well-Being and Vitality
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The “Headlight” Method for Achieving Healthy Change
Soon after beginning my health counseling work, I noticed that, for many women, setting goals and dreaming big (especially with health goals) was laced with feelings of inadequacy and doubt from past failures. Every time that they pumped themselves up to reach a goal but didn’t succeed, a little part of them began to doubt…
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How To Handle Seasonal Transitions Gracefully
How To Handle Seasonal Transitions Gracefully According to Ayurvedic tradition, three doshas (which are like primary characteristics) can be used to explain the nature of all living and natural things. The doshas are Pitta (fire characteristic), Vata (wind characteristic) and Kapha (earth characteristic). So, for example, the summer season has a Pitta constitution because of…
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What to do when you are addicted to complaining
Not too long ago, I caught myself in a conversation with a friend where we spent our whole time together sharing complaints about our lives. In fact we were purposefully seeking out ways to connect through negativity. You know, commiserating on the difficulties of raising toddlers, the terrible heat, the extra expenses of school season…
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4 Ways To Get Energy by Expending It
4 Ways To Get Energy by Expending It We already explored the idea of investing our time well, so we open up more time in our lives. Today, let’s move into the idea of expending energy in order to have more of it every day. Energy is a funny thing. I often observe in my…
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3 Ways that Spending Time Actually Makes Time
3 Ways that Spending Time Actually Makes Time When I ask women, and in particular busy moms, what their biggest obstacle to staying healthy is, two answers seems to always rise to the top. No time and no energy. We feel suffocated with the number of things on our plate and the dizzying, non-stop pace…
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The Secret of a Stress-Resistant Mom
The Secret of a Stress-Resistant Mom It’s 9:30 a.m. and we have already been up and going for three hours now. I have all three kids outside playing, and things are going smoothly until…BAM. I can’t even pinpoint why the shift occurred, but I am just feeling irritable. The kids are bombarding the next door…
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6 Ways to Kickstart an Energized Day
6 Ways to Kickstart an Energized Day I like to think of my day as a stranger that I am meeting for the first time in the morning. When a first impression goes right, the way for a beautiful and smooth conversation is laid down…and a lasting friendship just may develop. When first impressions are…
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How To Juggle Like a Pro: Use the Power of Synergy
{This is a guest post by Sherri Kruger from Serene Journey and Zen Family Habits} “Doing what we love and what makes us feel inspired and creative is important for own wellness and growth. And it also models important values to our children.” – Lisa Byrne from Rekindling Parts Of Yourself. I get asked this…
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Why you are always off track…and why that’s ok.
Stephen Covey in his book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, has an opening chapter titled, “90% of the time you are off track. So what?” I love the title because it captures exactly the thing that keeps people failing and giving up every time they get inspired and start some new healthy way of…
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Skeleton Self Care in Challenging Times
Skeleton Self Care in Challenging Times I hesitated using the word “challenging” for this post because there are also many joyful, exciting, fun times in our lives that require so much energy, time, and focus that we run the risk of ignoring basic self-care needs which can lead to burnout and sickness. But ultimately, it tends to be…