General Health Archives - Meraki Lane

Coping with a Miscarriage | Whether you’ve experienced an early or late miscarriage, you probably already know the facts and symptoms, but those don’t help during the recovery and emotional healing process. I’m sharing my own experience along with tips I found helpful in coping with my loss and all of the grief it brought with it. We need to do a better job in raising miscarriage awareness, and offering the proper support, and I hope these ideas help! #tryingtoconceive #TTC #infertility

Coping with a Miscarriage: 10 Tips to Help You Heal Emotionally

How to Beat the Winter Blues | If the colder weather months zap you of your motivation and energy, and make you feel down in the dumps, we’re sharing 9 tips and remedies to help you get out of your funk! Learn the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, along with some of our favorite winter activities and self-care ideas to help you live your best life, even when it’s cold outside! #winterblues #seasonalaffectivedisorder

How to Beat the Winter Blues: 9 Tips to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder

8 Tips to Overcome Emetophobia | If you or your kids have a fear of throwing up, it can cause all kinds of avoidance behaviors and problems and make life challenging. If you’re looking for tips and remedies to help you or your children from living in fear of sickness, this post has tons of ideas to help reduce the symptoms – and panic attacks – associated with vomiting. Recovery from emetophobia is possible – click to find out what you can do! #emetophobia #throwingup #stomachbug #coldandflu

The Fear of Throwing Up: 8 Tips to Overcome Emetophobia

33 Confidence Affirmations for Women | Do you suffer from low self-esteem? Do you struggle with self-confidence at work and in your relationships? Are you looking for a mantra you can use to shut down self-sabotaging thoughts and negative feelings you have about yourself so you can love yourself and live your best life? We’re sharing 33 positive affirmations for women to help you love and accept yourself, flaws and all! #confidenceaffirmations #positiveaffirmations #selfconfidence #selfesteem

How to be More Confident: 33 Confidence Affirmations for Women

8 Tricep Workouts for Women | Whether you prefer to workout with weights at the gym, or with no equipment at home, we’re sharing the best exercises you can do to tighten and tone your arms. Perfect for beginners, these arm workouts will help you get rid of batwings and flabby arms, for a more defined set of triceps that will make your friends jealous! Do these workouts with dumbbells (or without) for sexy arms you'll love. #tricepworkouts #getridofarmfat #flabbyarms

Tighten and Tone: 8 Transforming Tricep Workouts for Women

How Not to Care What People Think of You | Are you a people pleaser? Do you make decisions to appease others? Do you live in fear of other people’s perceptions of you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this post is for you! We’re sharing 7 truths to help you reframe your way of thinking so you can be your authentic self and change your thoughts so you can live your best life today, and everyday! #confidence #selfconfidence #selfesteem #personalgrowth #personaldevelopment

How Not to Care What People Think Of You: 7 Tips that Work

30-Day SCD Diet Meal Plan For Beginners | While the intro phase of the SCD diet is very restrictive, the SCD approved food list becomes quite extensive once you move past phase 1. There are tons of SCD legal breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes, as well as yummy snacks and desserts for kids and adults alike. We’ve curated 90 SCD diet recipes for every palette into one master list, and we hope you love them as much as we do! #scd #scdrecipes #aiprecules #crohnsdisease #ulcerativecolitis

30-Day SCD Diet Meal Plan For Beginners We Love

SCD Diet Guide for Beginners | If you suffer from irritable bowel disease like Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, and you’re looking for tips to help you get started with the specific carbohydrate diet, this post is for you! Phase one (aka the Intro Diet) can be overwhelming as there are many rules and an extensive legal/illegal food list. We’re sharing our experience, tips to make week 1 easier, and advice to help you stay motivated long-term. #scd #crohnsdisease #ulcerativecolitis

SCD Diet for Beginners: 16 Tips to Get Started and Stay Motivated

How to Stop Dieting and Lose Weight | Start living without food restrictions and torturous workout regimes with these healthy weight loss tips that work! While nutrition and fitness are obviously important for weight loss, there’s more to life than counting calories and gruelling exercise routines. Losing weight has never been easier than with these 9 simple mindset and lifestyle changes! #mindfuleating #intuitiveeating

How to Stop Dieting and Lose Weight: 9 Tips that Work

21 Self-Care Rituals for Women | From slow-paced morning routines to indulgent nighttime beauty regimes, self-care can be as simple or complicated as you want it to be. If you’re looking for tips to find time for your emotional and physical health, as well as self-care ideas you can enjoy on the daily, this post is your ticket to a happy life that’s balanced! #selfcarerituals #selfcareroutine #selfcareideas #selfcareforwomen

21 Self-Care Rituals for Women You Actually Have Time For

11 Homemade Household Products | Natural living meets saving money with this collection of DIY cleaning products, cleanses, and stain removers using ingredients you probably already have on hand. Learn how to cut through grease and make your home shine using simple products like baking soda, white vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and water. These household cleaners are equal parts awesome and effective! #naturalhousehold #naturalhouseholdproducts #naturalliving

11 Homemade Household Products for a Sparkly Clean Home

Plantar Fasciitis Relief | Looking for home remedies and exercises to relieve plantar fasciitis pain? We’re sharing the best products, essential oils, and shoes for those with heel and foot pain, the best exercises and stretches to prevent foot and heel pain, and tips to tape and wrap your foot for instant relief. Whether you injured yourself running or your pain stems from flat feet, high arches, or being overweight, rest assured relief is on the way! #plantarfasciitis #plantarfasciitisrelief

Plantar Fasciitis Relief: 7 Home Remedies to Treat and Prevent Pain

11 Secrets of a Happy Marriage | If you want to know how to have a happy marriage, we’re sharing our best tips to teach you what sets happily married couples apart from the rest. Whether you’re celebrating your first anniversary or your 50th, the keys to a happy marriage are the same. Perfect for newlyweds, tired parents, and empty nesters, we hope these ideas give you the inspiration to keep the magic alive in your marriage today – and every day! #marriage #newlywed #kids #parenting

Happily Ever After: 11 Simple Secrets of a Happy Marriage

How to Get Rid of a Migraine Fast | If you’re looking for headache relief, we’ve got you covered! We’re sharing 9 tips and natural remedies to help you prevent migraines and reduce the signs and symptoms when they do occur. From making changes to your diet, to getting a healthy amount of sleep, to reducing stress, to vitamins, supplements, and teas, these ideas work! #migraine #migrainerelief #migrainepain

How to Get Rid of a Migraine: 9 Natural Remedies That Work Fast

14 Self-Care Ideas for Mental Health | Whether you suffer from stress, anxiety, depression, or a combination of the 3, you’re probably looking for coping skills and tips to help you feel better and balance your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. While there is no ‘recovery kit’ per se for mental health challenges, these self-care activities are key to a happy life! #selfcareactivities #mentalhealthactivities #selfcareideas

Taking Care of You: 14 Self-Care Ideas for Mental Health

17 Manuka Honey Benefits and Uses | If you want to know how to use manuka honey to clear your acne, to soothe a sore throat, as a natural antibiotic, to boost your immunity, to settle an upset stomach, and reduce inflammation, this post is for you! We’re sharing all of the details, along with other manuka honey remedies and skin care benefits. #manukahoney #manukahoneybenefits #acne #skincare

17 Manuka Honey Benefits and Uses You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner

Family Meal Planning on a Budget | Whether you’re looking for ideas to help you create a healthy weekly menu even the picky eaters in your life will enjoy, want to know how to create and stick to your grocery lists so you aren’t throwing away unused produce each week, or need kid-friendly recipes you can throw in the crockpot on busy weeknights, we’re sharing 5 simple meal planning tips to help you stick to your clean eating goals while still saving money! #mealplanning #familymealplanning #howtomealplan

Family Meal Planning on a Budget: 5 Money-Saving Hacks

5 Natural Diarrhea Remedies for Kids | Whether it's a stomach flu, food poisoning, or a virus, diarrhea in children (especially babies and toddlers) is not fun. Knowing the causes of diarrhea can help, and having tips and natural remedies up your sleeve to relieve discomfort is always a good idea! From essential oils, to ginger, to eating the right foods (aka the BRAT diet), these tips and natural treatments will help keep your child comfortable at home! #diarrhea #kidshealth #stomachflu

Feel Better Sooner: 5 Natural Diarrhea Remedies for Kids

How to Be More Confident | Do you suffer from low self-esteem? Do you struggle to love your body? Do you want to know how to be a positive role model to the children in your life and teach them that beauty comes from within? Learn how to feel confident in yourself at school, at work, around people, around guys, and in relationships with these simple habits of confident people! #selfconfidence #confidence #howtobeconfident #selflove

How to Be More Confident: 9 Tips to Boost Your Self-Esteem

How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding | Postpartum weight loss, exercise, and diets should not be an immediate concern for a new mom, and if you’re breastfeeding, weight loss too fast and too soon can decrease your milk supply. Of course, many women are eager to get back into a workout routine after pregnancy, and we're sharing 9 of our best tips to help you get back in shape without losing your milk supply! #breastfeeding #postpartumweightloss #increasemilksupply

How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding: 9 Tips for Postpartum Moms

12 Natural Cold Sore Remedies that Work | If you want to know how to get rid of a cold sore FAST, this post is for you! Cold sores can cause significant pain in the mouth and on the lips, and while even the fastest remedies won’t cure a fever blister overnight, these ideas will decrease the severity and duration of cold sore symptoms. With DIY formulas using natural ingredients, these fast acting ideas are suitable for kids (and for toddlers!). #coldsore #feverblister #coldandflu

Fast and Effective: 12 Natural Cold Sore Remedies that Work