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Eating Healthy and Staying Fit on Vacation

Have you ever returned from vacation and felt like you needed another vacation right away? Going on vacation should be a time to refresh and re-energize. An escape from busy life. For some, returning from vacation can feel like it never happened - exhaustion, fatigue and the effects of travel stress set in shortly after arriving home.

If you’re trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle while on vacation and find it difficult, you may just give up and “binge” in the spirit of having fun. In this blog post, we share tips on how to have fun, maintain your healthy lifestyle on vacation and return home feeling more energized than when you left!

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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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New Year, S.M.A.R.T Goals

It's a New Year! This is a popular time of the year for goal-setting in our professional lives and many of you are familiar with S.M.A.R.T Goals. What about your personal life and well-being?

In this blog post, you will learn how to use the S.M.A.R.T Goal methodology for your personal life when setting your lifestyle goals.

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The Life-Long Learner and Wellness

It is amazing what happens inside our brains when we learn something new. The creation of new connections occurs between neurons. The more we exercise our mind, the stronger the connections get. Your brain literally rewires itself.

Explore the traits of a life-long learner and the connection to your wellness journey and lifestyle change in this blog post.

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