General Health

10+ Mind Body Resolutions for Your Best Year Yet | December is a time for celebration, reflection, and goal setting. The idea of starting the New Year with a clean slate can be extremely motivating, but knowing what goals to set can be challenging. Oftentimes we aren't specific enough, causing us to fall off track mid-year. Instead of vowing to 'get healthier', check out this list of specific, measurable action items you can start today to improve your overall wellness - mind, body, and spirt!

10+ Mind Body Resolutions for Your Best Year Yet

14 Best and Worst Foods for Energy and Concentration | If you suffer from brain fog, fatigue, and/or sleep deprivation and need to boost your energy and focus so you can be more productive at school, work, and in life in general, this post is for you. We're sharing our best productivity tips and hacks along with a list of healthy super foods to add to your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for a good pick me up. We're also sharing a list of foods that make you feel tired and sluggish!

14 Best and Worst Foods for Energy and Concentration

14 High Protein Grocery List Items | Protein is the powerhouse nutrient that fuels our muscles, supports our weight loss goals, and keeps us feeling satiated and energized. If you want to gain muscle and lose body fat, eating enough protein at every meal is so important. Click to learn how much protein you need, along with the best high protein foods to add to your grocery list to support your weight loss goals and help you develop lean muscle without feeling hungry!

14 High Protein Grocery List Items for Weight Loss & Muscle Gain

18 Immune Boosting Foods for Winter to Keep You Healthy | There are lots of things you can do to boost your immune system (good hand hygiene is a great start!), but the real secret to staying healthy lies in your diet. Nutrition plays such an important role when it comes to gut health and inflammation, and eating nutrient-rich foods can help ward of sicknesses faster. Click for a list of foods to kickstart your immunity plus additional tips and hacks to stay healthy this winter and beyond.

18 Immune Boosting Foods for Winter to Keep You Healthy

How to Get Started with the MIND Diet: 15 Tips & Foods to Eat | The MIND diet combines the Mediterranean diet and DASH diet to protect and strengthen the brain against dementia, Alzheimer's, and other cognitive diseases as we age. In this post, we explore the details behind the diet, and share a food list, outlining what you should and should not eat for optimal brain health. Click for more info and bookmark this post and refer back to it when making your grocery list!

How to Get Started with the MIND Diet: 15 Tips & Foods to Eat

9 Simple Ways to Boost Your Endorphins | Endorphins give us a rush of happiness that makes us feel on top of the world, but you don't have to chase a runners high to experience this feeling -- there are lots of endorphin boosters you can try to improve your mood that don't involve exercise (chocolate meditation, anyone?!). If you want to strengthen your immunity, improve your self-esteem, reduce stress and anxiety, and lower pain and inflammation, give the ideas in this post a try!

9 Simple Ways to Boost Your Endorphins

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

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

6 Surprising Health Consequences of Sleep Deprivation | Chronic sleep deprivation doesn't just zap you of energy and make you feel tired. It also impacts your physical and mental health. It's hard to focus and concentrate, manage your mood and emotions, and stick to your healthy eating routine thanks to hormonal imbalances when you're sleep deprived, but did you know it can also impact your heart health? Click for a full list of health consequences of sleep debt plus tips to get back on track.

6 Surprising Health Consequences of Sleep Deprivation