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6 Low Impact Incline Walking Workouts | Walking is great for your heart and maintaining a healthy weight, and treadmill hiking takes things to another level with tons of additional health benefits. Walking on an incline is a low impact cardio workout that targets your glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves, while also strengthening your core muscles, burning calories, and burning fat. If you want to tone your legs and build endurance, click for our fav 30 min treadmill incline workouts!

Treadmill Hiking: 6 Low Impact Incline Walking Workouts

8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens | Adolescence brings biological, physical, and emotional changes in boys and girls alike, and the addition of social pressures and social media can make it a very overwhelming time for teenagers and their parents. If your teen is angry and withdrawn, exhibits excessive worry, can't focus, and struggles with emotional regulation, this post is a great resource. We're sharing common signs your teen is struggling and how to teach healthy coping strategies.

8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens (and How to Teach Them)

7 Ovulation Bloating Remedies | If you experience tightness, pressure, or fullness in your belly around days 11 to 14 of your menstrual cycle, you may suffer from ovulation bloat. While this is primarily due to hormonal changes and fluid retention, your diet can also play a role. In this post, we share the signs and symptoms of belly bloat, common causes, and our best natural tips and hacks to help ease symptoms fast. Click to learn what you should eat and avoid, the best teas to sip, and more!

7 Ovulation Bloating Remedies that Help

16 Simple Sleepover Ideas for Girls | If your daughter is having a sleepover with one or several friends, it's important to be prepared with games and activities to keep everyone happy and entertained. In this post, we share 16 ideas to inspire you, including a mix of indoor crafts, outdoor activities, and places you can visit to add a little excitement to the experience. Perfect for birthday parties, these ideas are easy to setup and super fun, ensuring a positive slumber party for everyone!

16 Fun and Easy Sleepover Ideas for Girls

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8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens | Adolescence brings biological, physical, and emotional changes in boys and girls alike, and the addition of social pressures and social media can make it a very overwhelming time for teenagers and their parents. If your teen is angry and withdrawn, exhibits excessive worry, can't focus, and struggles with emotional regulation, this post is a great resource. We're sharing common signs your teen is struggling and how to teach healthy coping strategies.

8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens (and How to Teach Them)

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You | Anxiety distorts our perception of reality, and if you have a tendency to overthink, ruminate, and worry excessively when you're stressed, you're not alone. Anxiety causes us to fixate on thoughts that are simply not true, which makes us feel overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious for no reason. In this post, we share common lies anxiety tells us, with tips to help you notice when this happens so you can unhook yourself from distorted thought patterns and move forward.

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You and How to Overcome Them

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert | Did you know that your personality type - introvert, extrovert, ambivert, omnivert, etc. - can impact how you cope with the world around you? Introverts tend to recharge from within while extroverts receive their energy from socialize interactions, and everyone else falls somewhere in between. Click for a list of common signs you're an introvert, signs your social battery is low, and our best tips to help you rest and recharge.

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert

16 Simple Sleepover Ideas for Girls | If your daughter is having a sleepover with one or several friends, it's important to be prepared with games and activities to keep everyone happy and entertained. In this post, we share 16 ideas to inspire you, including a mix of indoor crafts, outdoor activities, and places you can visit to add a little excitement to the experience. Perfect for birthday parties, these ideas are easy to setup and super fun, ensuring a positive slumber party for everyone!

16 Fun and Easy Sleepover Ideas for Girls

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7 Ovulation Bloating Remedies | If you experience tightness, pressure, or fullness in your belly around days 11 to 14 of your menstrual cycle, you may suffer from ovulation bloat. While this is primarily due to hormonal changes and fluid retention, your diet can also play a role. In this post, we share the signs and symptoms of belly bloat, common causes, and our best natural tips and hacks to help ease symptoms fast. Click to learn what you should eat and avoid, the best teas to sip, and more!

7 Ovulation Bloating Remedies that Help

8 Gluten-Free Brownie Recipes | Whether you have celiac disease, FPIES, a gluten intolerance, or just like to avoid gluten for health or personal reasons, that does NOT mean you need to give up brownies!! The key is to perfect your gluten-free baking skills and find a recipe that is easy and delicious. Which is what this post is all about! We're sharing gluten-free flour alternatives & tips, and we've curated the best homemade gluten-free brownies that are fudgey and oh so delicious.

8 Gluten-Free Brownie Recipes that Actually Taste Good

How To Be A Better Listener | Learning how to be a better listener is a learned skill, and an important one at that -- it improves relationships and increases emotional intelligence. Click to learn the difference between passive and active listening, and why each of them are important, especially in the absence of nonverbal cues. We also share 9 tips and activities to help you improve your listening skills. These ideas work for adults and kids, helping improve relationships and mental strength.

How To Be A Better Listener: 9 Tips to Try

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15 No Fuss Messy Short Hairstyles for Women | Whether you recently chopped your hair short, or you're growing it out, there are tons of quick and easy styling techniques that will make you look effortlessly chic from day to night. From half-up top knots, to undone wavs, to bedhead curls, to a gorgeous head scarf hairstyle and more, this post has everything you need to style your locks. Click for 15 easy short hair looks, including drugstore hair essentials and step-by-step tutorials!

15 No Fuss Messy Short Hairstyles for Women

10 Ways to Refresh Tired-Looking Eyes | Tired, puffy eyes are a tell tale sign you’re sleep deprived, stressed out, and/or not taking care of your physical and mental health. Thankfully, there are lots of small things you can add to your morning and evening skincare routines to not just get rid of dark circles and puffiness, but also brighten your eyes so you look refreshed and wide aware. Click for our best natural remedies and makeup products for tired-looking eyes!

10 Ways to Refresh Tired-Looking Eyes

How to Style Bangs with a Cowlick | If you have a lock of hair that grows in a different direction than the rest of your hair and refuses to sit flat, you probably have a cowlick. As frustrating as it is, there are tons of tips, productions and step by step tutorials you can use to tame your cowlick in mere minutes. Knowing the right hairstyles for your specific cowlick is key, and sometimes cutting bangs is the way to go. Click for our best tips to help you cut and style your bangs like a pro.

How to Style Bangs with a Cowlick: 12 Tips for Women

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8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens | Adolescence brings biological, physical, and emotional changes in boys and girls alike, and the addition of social pressures and social media can make it a very overwhelming time for teenagers and their parents. If your teen is angry and withdrawn, exhibits excessive worry, can't focus, and struggles with emotional regulation, this post is a great resource. We're sharing common signs your teen is struggling and how to teach healthy coping strategies.

8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens (and How to Teach Them)

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert | Did you know that your personality type - introvert, extrovert, ambivert, omnivert, etc. - can impact how you cope with the world around you? Introverts tend to recharge from within while extroverts receive their energy from socialize interactions, and everyone else falls somewhere in between. Click for a list of common signs you're an introvert, signs your social battery is low, and our best tips to help you rest and recharge.

8 Ways to Recharge Your Social Battery As An Introvert

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You | Anxiety distorts our perception of reality, and if you have a tendency to overthink, ruminate, and worry excessively when you're stressed, you're not alone. Anxiety causes us to fixate on thoughts that are simply not true, which makes us feel overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious for no reason. In this post, we share common lies anxiety tells us, with tips to help you notice when this happens so you can unhook yourself from distorted thought patterns and move forward.

6 Lies Anxiety Tells You and How to Overcome Them

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8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens | Adolescence brings biological, physical, and emotional changes in boys and girls alike, and the addition of social pressures and social media can make it a very overwhelming time for teenagers and their parents. If your teen is angry and withdrawn, exhibits excessive worry, can't focus, and struggles with emotional regulation, this post is a great resource. We're sharing common signs your teen is struggling and how to teach healthy coping strategies.

8 Healthy Coping Skills for Teens (and How to Teach Them)

16 Simple Sleepover Ideas for Girls | If your daughter is having a sleepover with one or several friends, it's important to be prepared with games and activities to keep everyone happy and entertained. In this post, we share 16 ideas to inspire you, including a mix of indoor crafts, outdoor activities, and places you can visit to add a little excitement to the experience. Perfect for birthday parties, these ideas are easy to setup and super fun, ensuring a positive slumber party for everyone!

16 Fun and Easy Sleepover Ideas for Girls

How to Promote Inclusion in the Classroom | Whether you work in a pubic or private school with or without a special education program and special needs kids, it is so important that you ensure your students are inclusive. In a day and age where cyber bullying is so prevalent, kids need to feel safe and supported at school and inclusive education is a great place to start. From door decorations and bulletin board quotes and posters, to class activities and more, we have you covered.

How to Promote Inclusion in the Classroom: 10 Tips for Teachers