The older I've gotten, the more value I understand sleep to have. And I value my sleep....every little second of it. I used to not be this way. There was a point in time where it wouldn't have phased me to get 3 hours of sleep, work a full day and take care of my …
All about vitamins
My best friend and I regularly seem to have conversations about vitamins. It sounds like a weird thing to talk to your friend about, but if you knew the content of our relationship, conversations about vitamins would be the least of your concerns. Anyway! She suggested I talk about vitamins... What are they? Am I …
6 self-care tips for toxic situations
After input from the Facebook page, I decided this would be a good topic to post on today. Thank you for your input! Toxic situations. Just about everyone has been in a toxic situation at some point in their life. Sometimes it's work, sometimes it's an intimate relationship, sometimes it's even family relationships. These are …
What in the health food: Dandelions
Hello everyone! Welcome to the first edition of "What in the Health Food". There's so many different "health foods" out there and sometimes it can be very overwhelming to figure out what exactly these certain foods are doing for your health anyways. So I thought I'd dedicate some posts to talking about some of these …
Bonus: Music and your mood
Have you ever been sitting there, radio playing in the background, with your mood kind of "meh"? Then a certain song comes on and all the sudden you feel inspired to just jam out, or cry, or smile, or whatever. Fact of the matter is, music changes our moods. It just does. Now, you can …
Inflammation: Super-villain or ?
Within the last year or so, I've been hearing a lot about inflammation. Up until a training I went to recently, I had always heard about the horrors of inflammation. How it's bad...get rid of your inflammation in your body or reap the terrible consequences! Eek. Sounds frightening. So let's explore! Turns out though, inflammation …
The Journey Begins… the birth of a star
Thanks for joining me! I'm going to kick off this blog by sharing my own personal path to wellness. I have always had an interest in things health related- even as a child. I was one of those weird kids that if my parents said it's healthy, I would be like "yes please, more spinach!"....okay, …