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The Key to Seasonal Well-Being: Embracing the Outdoors All Year

Outside time is life. The health benefits of spending time outdoors—every single day—are long-lasting and, in reality, easy to achieve. A simple walk to your nearest forested area could offer you a clear and positive headspace, help fight the blues, improve memory, enhance sleep quality, supply endorphins with movement and even...

OK, Seriously - What Does Meditation Really Do For You?

Like pigeon pose for your tight hips, you're looking for that special sauce to help your inner calm carry you on. They say meditation can help, but what's all this chatter about a little bit of sitting and ommming? Experts tout meditation increases levels of happiness, helps you sleep, repairs emotional trauma, lowers the...

The Good-For-You Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Smoothie

Sooooo… how’s that New Year’s cleanse going? If you’re anything like me, you may have fallen off the wagon a couple of times during those afternoon chocolate cravings or when you just can’t stand to look at another bowl of brown rice. Lo and behold – a remedy. This smoothie is so delicious...

Resilience: 6 Ways to Build This Critical Mental & Emotional Skill in 2021

In yoga, bend yourself into a pretzel, and your stretchy nylon lycra leggings are your very own Elastigirl suit. If only Edna could make your mind as springy when you're in a heated argument with your partner. Enter resilience, "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." The crucial part here...

Reach Your New Year's Goals With These 5 Simple Goal-Getting Tactics

Reach Your New Year's Goals With These 5 Proven Goal-Getting Tactics

On the eve of a New Year, even if we’re not prone to set goals, we’re usually filled with hope for change. However, more often than not, come February, commitments are on shaky ground (or no ground at all). How do we ensure that we stick to ‘em, whether we’re self-reflecting...

A Mindfulness Meditation for Unplugging from Unnecessary Expectations

What are you plugged into? For many of us, it’s the obvious that first comes to mind: those earbuds or social media or your mother’s opinion. Go deeper, and you may realize there are thousands of things that you are plugged into, whether it be the assumption that you should be...

a mindfulness meditation to ring in the new year

A Mindfulness Meditation for the New Year

You may find that you make the same goals every year. Perhaps they’re what you feel you should want: a better body, improved relationships, more savings. But unless they deeply resonate with you, they're doomed to fail. Meditation can help you to achieve your goals by helping you to recognize what you truly...

skip new year's resolutions for these mindful practices instead

F$%K New Year’s Resolutions: Here Are 5 Mindful Practices Instead

Just as we can’t remember last year’s Christmas presents, it is hard to backtrack with our intentions, unless we followed through impressively. Usually, resolutions fall flat or get replaced by the business of life. “Eating more greens” can give way to buying groceries, raising children, getting your workouts in and saving...

pomegranate christmas port sauce parfait healthy recipe

Pomegranate Port Sauce Parfait with Pistachios

This dish is all about the sauce. If there’s another dessert you’ve got on the go that needs a topping (it would go wonderfully with chocolate cake and ice cream by the way!) – use the port sauce. Otherwise, try this yogurt parfait treat. Now, if you haven’t purchased your yogurt yet...

You Are Enough: How to Flip a Mindset of Scarcity into an Attitude of Abundance

Time is our most valuable, non-renewable resource. So why do we spend so much of it caught up in questioning our self-worth? Or telling ourselves, “I’ll be happy when I have____”? As we wrap up 2020 (perhaps more eagerly than ever), it’s the perfect time to take heed and ‘Marie Kondo’ your...