Healthy and Inspired Living
For many women, menopause can be trying on the nerves, marriage, and the waistline. When your hormones start driving you batty, take the opportunity to make a commitment to your health and well-being. Embrace Exercise If you lead a sedentary life or if you have long been considering a lifestyle of increased physical activity, make… [Read Full Story]
April is Stress Awareness Month, so grab your green tea, take a few deep breaths and let’s talk about how we can stress less! Let’s be honest about stress— it’s everywhere and pretty unavoidable. If not managed well, its effects can lead to anxiety, depression, illness, sleeplessness, exhaustion, water retention, weight gain… and the list… [Read Full Story]
Unfortunately, temper tantrums and mood swings aren’t just for toddlers and 14-year-old girls anymore. If you are a lady lucky enough to be encountering perimenopause or menopause, these emotional rollercoasters may have become part of your daily life. But what can you do about them? For some women, it can be easy to let menopausal… [Read Full Story]
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is more than just the “Winter Blues.” It is a form of seasonal or temporal depression that typically affects people during the winter months of longer nights and less sunlight. If you suffer from SAD, there are many alternative therapies that can naturally help you improve your mood and reduce… [Read Full Story]
Everybody has a story and it’s our stories that define who we are as people. Many of us may think our stories are not interesting or relevant enough to share with others, but this is a huge fallacy. Each person possesses within them a treasure trove of personal experience and stories rich in lessons I’m… [Read Full Story]
Breathing is the most basic activity of human life, and it is also the foundation of yoga practice. Yoga breathing is sometimes called pranayama. This two-part word contains “prana” which means “life force,” and “yama,” which means “control.” In other words, yoga breathing is about having control over the life force of breathing. Breathing, of… [Read Full Story]
Clutter produces harmful energy that sabotages us from achieving our personal best—it is the nemesis to success. It is deceptive because it manifests itself in various guises. Physical clutter is the stuff we fill our houses with to the point some people actually go into deprivation mode and develop an illness known as hoarding. In… [Read Full Story]
There’s always something to strive for, something that needs improvement or something we need more of in order for us to feel satisfied with our lives. This future-focused approach is certainly en-grained in our culture. Along with the basics of survival, we are faced with the pursuit of optimizing our existence. Everywhere you look, you… [Read Full Story]
Ask yourself a powerful question! I am not unaware of the goings on of the economy and wider world but I have a feeling it was ever thus but as our ancestors did not have television and internet they only heard about it in a letter, which quite likely made life less overwhelming. I am… [Read Full Story]
The December Holidays are a great time to enjoy a few special things that we don’t experience in the rest of the year. For example, although it’s the darkest and most dead time of year outside, there is so much life expressed through the thousands of sparkling lights we see decorating homes and businesses. As well, people… [Read Full Story]
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