Wellness Articles

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Know Your Body

Stress can trigger our fight-or-flight response. This reflex is an inheritance from our ancient ancestors: when they perceived a threat...

Managing Conflicting Thoughts

When you're agitated by a lot of ideas swirling around in your head, such as what others want you to do, what you want to do, and all the...

Mental Health & Self-Awarenes

We all have leftovers from the past: old problems, hurts, and memories that can trouble us on an ongoing basis. Everyone also has an...

Understanding Stress

Your first step in targeting stress is to learn why it happens. Of course, the reasons we experience stress vary from person to person,...

Combatting Stress and Anxiety

Most of us feel stressed at some point during our lives and the truth is that it's a natural reaction to the challenges of everyday life....

The Foundation of Self Care: Self Awareness

Self-awareness is a crucial element of self-care-- it's how you figure out what kind of self-care you need. It's easy to rush through...

How to Choose a Self-Care Practice

It can be tempting to treat self-care like a chore or self-improvement project, but the goal is to create a practice that makes life a...

Self Care is...

Getting to know yourself. When you're more aware of what you're thinking and feeling, you get better at giving yourself the care you...

Awakening the Best Version of Yourself

Beginning the new year, I set a goal for myself -- to read a set of books that I have been putting aside in the past due to schedule and...

Doing What You Want

Ayn Rand once said, "do not allow your fire to go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet,...

Learning to Ask and Accept H-E-L-P

I get it. Who likes to ask for help when they have questions or are struggling with an idea or life challenge? Who likes to reach out to...

It's All About You

Self-care has been a popular buzzword for years. But its definition and how we practice it have evolved in recent years. What does it...