Empowering Your Body + Mind for Life.

5 Ways to Reduce Stress with Gardening and Houseplants

Engaging in gardening and tending to houseplants can have numerous stress-reducing benefits as well as provide you with the opportunity to grow and include more nutritious whole food plants into your diet. In this blog I share 5 ways in which gardening and caring for houseplants can help to reduce stress while providing nutrient-dense foods!

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Healthy Lifestyle Changes: Drive or Desperation?

The pressure of obtaining the ideal state of wellness and fitness in a certain timeframe may push us to act and make a change, but with reckless actions, without intention or direction. When making a healthy lifestyle change, what is the value in recognizing if you have drive versus desperation?

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RISE & LIFT: Simple Tips When You Feel “Blah”

“BLAH”: That feeling of languish, apathy, lethargy, low energy, hopelessness, lack of motivation. Even with the best intentions of taking care of ourselves daily, we can experience that feeling of “blah” from time to time. In this post I created “RISE & LIFT”, a list with 8 simple tips to help you take flight!

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Nourish Your Heart

Happy Valentine’s Day! Traditionally, Valentine’s Day has been celebrated by purchasing flowers, chocolate candies, jewelry, a fancy dinner, etc. Today, let’s take a moment to turn inward to the matters of the heart. In this blog post, I share nutrition, physical activities and mindfulness/yoga for a heart-healthy day. Bonus! A recipe for one of our favorite dinners: BBQ Tofu & Brown Rice Bowl.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Support Their Team’s Wellness

How does wellness play a role in leadership?

Leadership development is an essential mechanism to support effective leadership across an organization. There are excellent programs that provide skill improvements in communication, empathy, coaching, decision-making and employee engagement.

During the pandemic, leaders were at the front-lines dealing with challenges they never would have imagined. A spotlight was placed on what it means to be Human. Empathy. Leaders learned the importance of connecting with their team and employees in meaningful ways as many were dealing with external stressors of the highest levels.

In this blog post, we share 4 ways leaders can support their team’s wellness.

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Invest In Your Wellness For Your Future

During the time period between graduating high school/college and retiring, there are 43 to 47 years of time on Earth. We fill up that time with achieving more “milestones” (perhaps getting married, children, pets, vacations, work achievements and promotions, acquiring and accumulating material items).

What if we could spend those 43 to 47 years intentionally focusing on wellness (nutrition, physical activity and mindset) and making conscious choices in our decisions surrounding our well-being?

Investing time and attention to your health and wellness is equally as important as investing in your financial future.

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Business Travel Guide To Wellness

In our culture we idolize being busy. Almost too busy to take care of our nutrition and fitness needs while wanting to be more productive in our professional life.

In the workplace, eating healthy and staying fit is sometimes a challenge when we have to travel, or race from one meeting to the next, take back-to-back phone calls and prepare for the next day.

In this post we share 6 ways to incorporate healthy eating and fitness into your work-life.

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