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How to Find the Right Yoga Style
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Yoga offers numerous health benefits, ranging from flexibility and weight loss to stress relief and improved energy. With thousands of yoga styles out there to choose from, how do you know which type is right for you? Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced yogi, it’s important to find a style that you enjoy practicing. But if you're new or have only ever tried one style, how can you know which of... 6/22/2023 4:00:00 AM
Jen Johnson
5 Ways to Find Inner Peace When You Have Chronic Illness
by Jen Johnson
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When we have chronic illness, inner peace may feel hard to come by. Because our brains are wired for survival and the mind views illness as a threat, we become fixated on the problem of illness and on trying to fix it. As we fixate on the illness, we lose connection with positive experiences and emotions, such as inner peace, inspiration, joy, love, compassion, and awe. Despite our mind’s good intentions,... 6/7/2023 4:00:00 AM
Judith Finlayson
4 Surprising Ways Your Gut Rules Your Life
by Judith Finlayson
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In the not-so-distant past the term “gut health” equated with digestion. Today it references the trillions of microbes residing in your gastrointestinal tract. Collectively these microbial settlers are known as your gut microbiome and their effect is systemic. Basically, an ailing microbiome houses too many pathogenic bacteria. Current research links this state (dysbiosis) with a wide range of diseases,... 6/6/2023 4:00:00 AM
Randy Stocker
Five “Real World” Ways to Help a Griever
by Randy Stocker
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What I learned after the deaths of my mother, Jean, and my two daughters, Jenelle-age 19, and Amy-age 9 to a distracted semi-truck driver is that things people say and do to help grievers can be perceived as both hurtful and insensitive by the people that are receiving the help. Below are five myths that need to be better understood.1. There is a “right way” to grieve. This statement is so wrong. Everybody... 6/5/2023 4:00:00 AM
Donna Bond, M.A.
4 Ways Courageous Mom’s Respect the Shadow: Love Yourself into the Light
by Donna Bond, M.A.
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Bringing reverent balance to all your parts, requires mom’s to respect their shadow aspects and to love them into the light. Mom’s have a tendency to sacrifice, to hide, to abandon their own needs and dreams, as they are busy caring for everyone else. Over time, shadow aspects of our personality can rear their heads in all kinds of different ways. These buzz killers can show up as self-doubt, criticism,... 6/4/2023 4:00:00 AM
Lavinia Plonka
Who’s Got Your Back? 5 Ways to Avoid Back Pain
by Lavinia Plonka
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Back pain is one of the biggest industries in the US, costing billions of dollars in pain medications, surgical interventions and lost productivity. Disc degeneration, ruptured discs, pinched nerves and the dire sounding lumbago (which is simply a word for unexplained lower back pain) interfere with performance and pleasure leaving many people feeling hopeless. While injury and wear and tear are certainly... 6/3/2023 4:00:00 AM
Avery Neal, PhD
Depression in Stepmothers
by Avery Neal, PhD
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If you are a stepmother, there is no doubt you have found yourself in what can feel like a no-win situation. The very basic nature of being a stepmother, or an “outsider” who has joined the family circle, means that you’ll be examined under a microscope and potentially the recipient of criticism and emotional unloading…and that’s just for starters! It is important not to deny your feelings, suppress... 6/3/2023 4:00:00 AM
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The Top 3 Sunscreen Myths
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Sunscreen is your friend. Whether you have darker skin or lighter skin, you never seem to burn or you turn into a lobster after the slightest exposure, sunscreen can always offer helpful protection from harmful light rays. Believe it or not, prolonged sun exposure without proper protection can lead not only to skin cancer dangers, but premature wrinkles and aging of the skin. So to take care of your... 6/1/2023 4:00:00 AM
Laura Bonarrigo
Stop Comparing and Start Growing
by Laura Bonarrigo
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Comparison is at the root of our pain. When we begin comparing our lives to our ex's lives, we begin to forge unhealthy thoughts and opinions about ourselves. We begin to feel less-than, especially women in divorce. There are all sorts of reasons to justify this behavior. But, none of them will help you move on with your life. Stop comparing and start growing... here are a few secrets to moving on... 5/31/2023 4:00:00 AM
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Cholesterol Medication Might Contribute to ALS
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New research suggests statins (medication for "bad" cholesterol) could increase a person’s risk of developing symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), or increase painful and debilitating symptoms for patients with ALS.What’s ALS?Best known for afflicting the late Sir Stephen Hawking, ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes irreversible... 5/1/2023 4:00:00 AM
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