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For Your Health: How to Stay Centered During the Holidays
Staying centered may be easy when life is calm and peaceful, but it can be more of a challenge during the holidays—for many of us, anyway. Stressful times, financial concerns, and complicated relationships with family members may add to the feeling of being off-center and uncomfortable. Many people say they haven't really enjoyed the holidays since they were kids. But there are ways to feel centered...
December 9, 2024
Your Diet’s Missing Ingredient for Health and Happiness
Proper nutrition is fundamental to our health and longevity. Without the right nourishment for the majority of your life, it becomes harder and harder to avoid most of the chronic diseases that plague the world today. But a long, healthy and rewarding life goes beyond simply choosing nutritious foods to eat. Like the World Health Organization’s holistic definition of health, it is better described...
November 13, 2022
5 Ways to Involve Your Kids in Your Healthy Lifestyle
We all want the kids around us to be healthy and to have the best chance at growing up with great habits. But there are lots of kids who struggle with vegetables and other healthy habits. So what can we do? - Kids are fantastic mimics. Because of that, the adults around them have the best opportunity to create these healthy habits for the young people who are depending on them. The fact is that healthy...
January 2, 2022
Why Do Some Families Fight and Others Laugh Together?
No two families are the same and definitely, no two dynamics are the same, but some families get along better than others. And if you're the person who has been longing for the reason others get along while looking askance at your own bickering brood, we hope this will help. The differences can come down to several possible factors, each having the power to bring groups of loved ones together or drive...
April 28, 2021
5 Ways to Handle Difficult Relatives
Difficult relatives may make the holidays more complicated whether the gathering is of the traditional sort with people around a table, or even if it's a virtual affair—difficult people make everything more, well, difficult. But when you know you’re going to be interacting with people who may cause friction or discomfort, being prepared is the first and maybe the most important step. Fortunately, there...
November 23, 2020
How to Pull off a Zero-Spend Month Without Starving
A month without spending? That can’t be possible, can it? Actually, it- is. The rules of a zero-spend month aren’t quite as extreme as they might appear at first glance. And the benefits can be astonishing both financially and emotionally. During a spending freeze, the goal isn’t to stop spending altogether. Instead, the goal is to -cut back on or eliminate unnecessary spending. Here’s how to pull...
September 24, 2019
Conflict Schmonflict: My Family Gets Along Just Fine
How often is it that we see people in our extended families and our community that believe that their family gets along just fine and doesn't have any problems, only to find that screaming, yelling, name calling, and physical aggressiveness is almost the norm? There almost seems to be a denial that there is a deeper issue, and because of this, the conflict continues and people believe that destructive...
March 31, 2016