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General Health

12 Stress Relief Activities for Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed | If you're looking for quick and simple calming activities to help you destress, we're sharing 12 fun and creative ways to relax. This list includes things you can do on your own, as well as fun ideas you can do with your kids to help you reset when emotions are high. These also double as anger management activities for women!

12 Stress Relief Activities for Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed

Meditation for Beginners | Want to know how to meditate but don't know how to get started? We're sharing 9 tips and guided meditations to help! Mindfulness meditation is an excellent way to help you cope with stress and anxiety, helping you feel calm and more grounded, and allowing you to find inner peace and to sleep better. Meditation is quite easy once you get the hang of it, and we're sharing the different types of meditation along with our favorite meditation apps and guided meditations.

Meditation for Beginners: 9 Tips and Guided Meditations

How to Deal with Toxic People | If you're looking for tips to help you deal with toxic people at work, at school, with friends, and in your relationships, we're sharing 8 strategies to help. Whether you're dealing with someone who only has a few toxic traits, or a full blown narcissist, learning the signs of a toxic personality and how to set boundaries is key. And sometimes, letting go of toxic people and all of the drama they create is the only option.

How to Deal with Toxic People: 8 Tips and Strategies

How to Find Your Why | How do you find meaning, motivation, and inspiration in life? If you're trying to figure out how to find your passion, mission, purpose, and your dream career so you can feel happy and fulfilled each day, this is a great place to start. Using the core elements of ikigai, we're sharing 19 questions to ask yourself to help you find your why, allowing you to live your life with greater purpose, and with a passion and dedication to things that set your soul on fire.

How to Find Your Why: 19 Questions to Ask Yourself

How to Stay Calm in a Stressful Situation | If you're looking for tips and strategies to help you stay calm in any situation (when stressed, when angry, when nervous, as a parent, in a crisis, etc.), we're sharing 9 stress management tips that help. Learn how to stop anxious thoughts in their tracks, what to do when things are out of your control and you feel overwhelmed, and how to be less stressed in the face of adversity moving forward.

9 Tips and Tricks to Help You Stay Calm in a Stressful Situation

30 Recipes with Canned Soup | If you're looking for simple and easy canned soup recipes you can make at home, you're in for a treat! We're sharing 30 canned soup upgrade ideas, along with our favorite canned soup hacks to teach you how to create delicious and filling meals and dishes with your favorite tins of soup! From chicken pot pie crescent bread, to king ranch mac and cheese, to crockpot Swedish meatballs, we have lots of Campbells soup recipes to inspire you!

30 Simple Recipes with Canned Soup That Actually Taste Good

50 Recipes with Non Perishable Ingredients | If you're trying to make healthy meals out of non perishable foods, we're sharing our favorite non perishable meals! These recipes are healthy, easy to plan and prep, and taste amazing, allowing you to stick with your healthy eating goals during emergency situations like a hurricane, flood, prolonged power outage, or during a pandemic. These recipes are quick and cheap, and great for camping and for college kids too!

50 Healthy Recipes with Non Perishable Ingredients

90 Healthy and Easy Canned Tuna Recipes | If you're looking for healthy and easy ways to cook with tuna, you're in for a treat! These recipes go beyond your standard canned tuna sandwich recipes and are high in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. From low carb, keto-friendly lunch ideas, to tuna salad, casserole, and pasta dinners, to the best gluten-free and kid-friendly snacks that are simple and quick to make, there's a tuna recipe here for everyone!

90 Healthy and Easy Canned Tuna Recipes You’ll Love

90 Cheap and Healthy Freezer Meal Recipes | If you're looking for easy, make ahead recipes you can cook in bulk, freeze, and reheat on busy nights when you can't be bothered to cook, we've curated the best of the best! From simple freezer meals for kids, to single serving freezer meals, to vegetarian, gluten free, and low carb freezer meals, these recipes are perfect for new moms and busy families, and many can be made in your slow cooker, crock pot, or instant pot!

90 Cheap and Healthy Freezer Meal Recipes That Save Time and Money

How to Quit Sugar: 5 Tips that Work | If you're trying to detox from sugar cold turkey, and want tips to help curb cravings and kick your addiction to sweet treats and carbs for good, these ideas will help! Whether you want to quit sugar in 5 days, or want to do this slowly, we're sharing 5 reasons to give up sugar, the best sugar substitutes, and how to master sugar cravings like a pro!

How to Quit Sugar: 5 Simple Tips to Stop Sugar Cravings Fast

9 Weight Loss Vision Board Tips and Ideas | If weight loss is on your mind and you're on the hunt for motivational tips and tools that will keep you accountable to your goals, we've got you covered! We're teaching you how to make a vision board for weight loss, including goal setting ideas, step by step tips for curating photos, words, and quotes to bring your vision to life, and tons of inspiration to make the law of attraction help you in your weight loss journey!

Goal Setting 101: 9 Weight Loss Vision Board Tips and Ideas

How to Deal with a Narcissistic Parent | If you're looking for tips to help you navigate relationships with mothers and fathers who are narcissists, we're sharing everything you need to know. From knowing the signs of narcissism, to understanding how it impacts you as their daughter or son, to practical recovery tips to help you heal from the emotional toll of being raised by a toxic mom or dad, we'll teach you how to deal with narcissistic behavior in others.

How to Deal with a Narcissistic Parent: 7 Tips to Help You Heal

30-Day Insulin Resistance Diet Plan | If you're looking for food lists, recipes, and a menu plan to help you create meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks that help with insulin resistance, we've curated 30 days of recipes to keep your insulin and blood sugar in check. We've included a range of recipes from different dietary needs, including low carb, keto, paleo, vegetarian, and vegan options. If you want to lose weight, these recipes are a great place to start!

Weight Loss That Works: 30-Day Insulin Resistance Diet Plan

How to Stop Snoring | if you're looking for tips, natural remedies, and products that can help you or your spouse stop snoring fast, we're sharing 10 simple ideas to help. Perfect for women, men, and even kids, these snoring solutions and treatment options will offer relief to you and your partner so everyone can get a good night of sleep. Find out the common causes of snoring, the best prevention tips, and store bought products that work!

How to Stop Snoring: 10 Snoring Remedies that Actually Work!

6 Post Nasal Drip Remedies That Work | If you want to know how to get rid of post nasal drip, we're sharing the best remedy ideas for relief that lasts! This post explains the causes and symptoms of post nasal drip, including a sore throat, cough (especially at night), nausea, and bad breath. Whether you're symptoms are due to a cold, flu, or allergies, or you have chronic post nasal drip, these natural remedies will teach you how to stop the causes, so you can sleep (and feel) better!

Natural Home Treatments: 6 Post Nasal Drip Remedies That Work

10 Full Body No Gym Workouts | Perfect for beginners as well as fitness gurus who are looking for at home workouts they can do when they can't make it to the gym, we've curated a full workout plan complete with videos you can stream anywhere to help you tighten and tone your arms, legs, core, abs, obliques, and glutes. If losing weight is your goal, strength training is key, and these workouts will help you target specific parts of your body while also getting in some cardio.

Get Fit at Home! 10 Full Body No Gym Workouts for Weight Loss

Weight Loss After Menopause | The hormone imbalance that occurs during the transition to menopause can lead to many uncomfortable symptoms, and is often to blame for a slower metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and weight gain. If you want to know how to lose weight during perimenopause and menopause, exercise alone won't help. We're sharing a list of the foods you should eat and avoid for weight loss - and to help manage the symptoms of menopause - for a healthier, happier you!

Weight Loss After Menopause: 14 Foods to Eat and Avoid

5 Fat Burning Jump Rope Workouts | Perfect for beginners and those who want new ways to get a little HIIT into their day when they're strapped for time, these jump rope videos for weight loss are the perfect cardio challenge! Find out the many benefits of using a jump rope routine for fat loss, what you can expect from a transformation perspective, and why it's a great workout for women. Make sure to take before and after photos to measure your progress!

Feel the Burn! 5 Fat Burning Jump Rope Workouts for All Levels

How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau | A new weight loss program such as a low carb keto diet usually produces great results at first. You may even lose 10 pounds in a week! But eventually, your weight loss will stall and it can be difficult to figure out what to do. If you're looking for weight loss tips to help you get back on track, we're sharing common reasons for a weight loss plateau and 9 weight loss hacks to help correct them!

How to Get Over a Weight Loss Plateau: 9 Effective Tips For Women

8 Ways to Move Forward When You're Feeling Stuck | If you're stuck in a rut and looking for tips to help you find your motivation and transform your life for the better, the post is for you! Whether you've been passed up for a promotion at work and now you're questioning your career path, you're struggling with feelings of failure, sadness, regret, or fear, or you're a mom who has lost her way, we're sharing 8 strategies to help you figure out your purpose and passion and get UN-stuck!

Transform Your Life: 8 Ways to Move Forward When You’re Feeling Stuck

11 Positive Habits that Will Change Your Life | If you've ever wondered what the daily habits of successful people look like, this post has 11 ideas you can start TODAY to find happiness, joy, and success. From effective daily routines, to tips for finding your motivation, to productivity and time management hacks we swear by, the tips and strategies in this post will teach you how to be the best version of yourself in every single thing you do!

Self-Improvement 101: 11 Positive Habits that Will Change Your Life

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‘STOP TRYING TO CALM THE STORM. CALM YOURSELF, T ‘STOP TRYING TO CALM THE STORM. CALM YOURSELF, THE STORM WILL PASS.’ —Unknown . My daughter went back to school virtually today, and while the Type A in me is excited we’re back in some kind of routine, I had forgotten just how chaotic and impractical distance learning is. A province-wide internet outage took down her teacher within 2 hours, shattering any hopes I had of grabbing a little time to myself to get caught up on all of the work stuff I’ve been putting off for the last 3 weeks. I’ve dried tears, prepared snacks, provided new Zoom logins, helped with grade 4 math, and I even made paper plates out of construction paper for a last minute craft. . Wash, rinse, repeat. . All is good in our world again, and soon we’ll dive back into those math problems and whatever else is on tap for homework before I retreat to my office to print off tomorrow’s agenda and worksheets. We’ll all play Roblox before dinner to help us unwind after a crazy day, and I’ll stay up later than I want to tonight trying to get caught up because I know tomorrow will bring more unforeseen challenges, and I hate starting my day feeling behind schedule. . Parenting in a pandemic is extra messy, and if this sh*t storm has taught me anything, it’s that we need to give ourselves a hell of a lot of grace right now. There will be days where we’re super productive and get through everything on our never-ending ‘to do’ lists, but there will be many more days where we feel like we’ve accomplished absolute nothing. . It’s on these difficult days that we need to remind ourselves that our most important job right now is making sure our kids are healthy and happy, and that they feel safe and loved. When they look back on this time, they won’t remember if the house was clean and the laundry was folded, how often we ordered takeout, or if we gained weight. All they will remember is how we showed up for them - even on the days we were struggling to show up for ourselves. . If the return to reality has you feeling overwhelmed today, stop trying to calm the storm. Take a deep breath, get present in this moment, remind yourself what’s important, and focus on that instead. . We’ve got this. 💙
BACK TO REALITY… . Are you ready to get back at BACK TO REALITY… . Are you ready to get back at it? . While we’ve certainly been busy organizing, packing, and getting our new home ready and didn’t really relax as much as we’d hoped to over the holidays, I’ve enjoyed operating at a slower pace the last couple of weeks. We’ve stayed up late, slept in a little bit each morning, had too much to eat and drink, and enjoyed a break from routines and schedules. . Toronto is currently under lockdown, so my daughter is going back to school virtually tomorrow while my husband and I continue to work from home. It’s not ideal, but we’ll make it work and I’m excited to get back into a routine. The time away from my computer helped me reset and recharge, and I feel like I’m starting 2021 with more realistic expectations of myself. And that feels good. . 2020 was definitely not my favorite year, but when I look back at the last 12 months, a lot of really great things came from it. It gave me more time with my husband and daughter and brought us much closer than our busy, pre-2020 lives would’ve ever allowed. It helped me reconnect with friends I had lost contact with due to the craziness that is being a working mom. And it helped me form amazing new friendships that I will cherish forever. . I know 2021 is likely going to be just as challenging - if not more so - as 2020 was, but for the first time since becoming a mom, I finally feel like I have a tribe of people around me. I feel less lonely than I’ve ever felt in my life, which is hilarious since we have been holed up in our house for ~10 months, but it feels pretty amazing. . I’m not sure where I was going with this post, but suffice it to say I’m ready to caffeine and conquer! ☕️
‘ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. KNOW THAT ‘ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. KNOW THAT IT IS YOU WHO WILL GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO, NO ONE ELSE.’ —Les Brown . I think we can all agree that 2020 was the absolute shits, and I know we’re all looking forward to a chance to start fresh in hopes that the universe will be a little kinder to us in 2021. . Of course, our lives aren’t going to magically go back to the way they were at 12:01 am. It’s not easy to be positive right now, but instead of getting stuck in the suck, remember that the only thing you have control over is your attitude. You can continue to feel sorry for yourself and mourn all the ways your life has changed, or you can straighten your crown and focus on all of the good things happening in your life. . If you dig deep enough, you’ll see that there is so much to be grateful right now. . And if you can’t think of anything that you feel proud of or that brings you joy, then it’s up to you to create it. Accept responsibility for your life. Stop making excuses and be the change you want to see. . Instead of thinking of 2021 as another year of lockdowns and restrictions while we wait for vaccinations to take place and herd immunity to take hold, look at it as an open book. . 12 new chapters. 365 new chances. 🥂
‘BE PRESENT WHERE YOUR FEET ARE.’ —Unknown . ‘BE PRESENT WHERE YOUR FEET ARE.’ —Unknown . What do you do when you have downtime? . I haven’t had time off since last Christmas. We hit the ground running in January as we were planning a 2-week family vacay in March and wanted to do ALL THE THINGS beforehand so we could unplug and enjoy the trip. Our vacation obviously got cancelled, and we’ve been on autopilot ever since. I feel like the pandemic has either made people really busy, or extremely bored. There’s no in-between! . My team and I have been busy working ahead over the past couple of months as I really wanted to unplug and unwind for a few weeks over the holidays and now that the craziness of Christmas is over, I don’t know what to do with myself! . I’m caught up on This Is Us, we finally watched The Undoing, I’m almost done Open Book, I’ve done a lot of drawing on my iPad, I’ve had a lot of wine, I’ve eaten a ton of chocolate, we’ve played games, I’ve done my nails…and I’m bored, lol. But unless I find something else to do, I have to face packing up this house (we’re moving, ya’ll!) and I can’t face that just yet. . 👇🏻how do you unwind?
‘WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? IT IS TENDERNESS FOR THE PAS ‘WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? IT IS TENDERNESS FOR THE PAST, COURAGE FOR THE PRESENT, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.’ —Agnes M. Pahro . The holidays are going to be extra hard for many this year. Whether you’re living under a lockdown with travel restrictions, voluntarily cancelling plans to keep yourself and the ones you loved safe, or dealing with heart-breaking loss, please know that you are not alone. . While we are all navigating the same storm right now, remember that we’re not all in the same boat. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by excitement and chaos, enjoy the insanity of it all. Embrace the mess and be grateful for all your blessings, and don’t forget to check in with those who are less fortunate than you are. . And if there’s an empty chair at your table due to distance, sickness, or loss, remember that it’s okay to not be okay right now. The holidays can be hard at the best of times, and this year is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. Feel the feels, reach out to others, and be kind to yourself. . Merry Christmas my beautiful friends! 🥂
‘WORRYING IS LIKE PRAYING FOR THE OUTCOME YOU DO ‘WORRYING IS LIKE PRAYING FOR THE OUTCOME YOU DON’T WANT.’ —Denis Morton . This is your Monday morning reminder that no amount of anxiety can change the future, and no amount of regret can change the past. Worrying about something you have no control over does nothing but interfere with your ability to be fully present in this moment. So, inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit (also a Denis Morton quote), and have faith in your ability to handle whatever life throws at you. ☺️
Is this thing on? . It’s been a MINUTE since I p Is this thing on? . It’s been a MINUTE since I posted here, and I’m not even sure I’m the same person anymore, lol, so I figured I’d re-introduce myself. . My name is Gwen and I’m the founder and managing editor of Meraki Lane - a website dedicated to sharing all of the latest tips and trends to help you be the best version of yourself in the least amount of time. . I’m 43, married to the man of my dreams, and the proud mama of a feisty 9-year-old who has an infectious personality and love for life. I grew up in Singapore, live in Toronto, and have an unhealthy obsession for clothes, shoes, peanut butter, makeup, and my Peloton bike. . I’m also anxious AF. I’ve struggled with high functioning anxiety since I was 9, but you probably wouldn’t even know if you met in IRL. I grew up at a time when mental health challenges were something to be deeply ashamed of and it took a global pandemic for me to finally realize that it’s okay not to be okay. . I’ve been thinking a lot about this little account of mine and how I want it to evolve. I’m never going to be a beauty influencer, I suck at taking photos of my food, and no one on the internet wants to see videos of me working out. While I love seeing other people do these things, they fall way outside of my skill set and comfort zone. . What I can offer is a candid look at my life with anxiety - the things that help me cope, the quotes that make me think, the mantras that keep me grounded, the products I love, and the memes that make me laugh and remind me not to take life too seriously. . My experience with anxiety probably won’t look like yours, but even though I may not be able to relate to your struggles, my hope is that I make you feel a little less alone. 💙
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