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Wheat Allergy 101 for Beginners | If you think you or your child may be allergic to wheat, this post is a great resource! It includes the signs and symptoms of a wheat allergy, common causes, as well as tips to help you know if you're dealing with a gluten vs a wheat allergy. We've also included a food list with a list of common foods to avoid with a wheat allergy, as well as a link to a post with tons of wheat allergy diet recipes and meals!

Wheat Allergy for Beginners: Signs, Symptoms & 11 Foods to Avoid

7 Sciatica Exercises and Stretches for Pain Relief | What is sciatica? What causes it? What are the symptoms? This post has everything you need to know, and if you're looking for the best natural pain relief remedies and treatment options for sciatica, we've included the best exercises and stretches. While they aren't a cure per se, they help with sciatic nerve pain relief while also reducing pressure and strengthening key muscles to improve mobility and help you sleep!

7 Sciatica Exercises and Stretches for Pain Relief

7 Knee Strengthening Exercises for Bad Knees | If you're looking for the best low impact knee exercises to facilitate proper alignment, stability, and strength, this post is a great resource. Perfect for runners looking for recovery exercises they can do at home to prevent injury, as well as those who are already injured and/or for arthritis sufferers, you can pick and choose the best exercises from this list to create your very own knee workout routine!

Bad Knees? 7 Knee Strengthening Exercises to Try

How to Recover From Burnout | There are so many things that can cause us to become burnt out, and it can happen to anyone. If you're a mom or dad, caregiver or nurse, teacher or therapist, and/or putting in too many hours at work or at school, it's important to know the symptoms and warning signs of burnout, and to have action plan to help you bounce back. Dealing with burnout isn't fun, but this post has tons of tips to help, along with advice on how to avoid burnout to begin with!

How to Recover From Burnout: 8 Tips to Help you Feel Better Sooner

21 Healthy Gluten Free Cake Recipes For Every Occasion | If you have celiac disease, a wheat allergy, or try to avoid gluten for other reasons, that doesn't mean you need to miss out on delicious desserts and treats! There are tons of easy gluten free recipes you can make using flour substitutes like almond flour, coconut flour, amaranth flour, and more, and we've curated the best of the best! Many of these homemade cakes are are dairy free, vegan, and sugar free too!

21 Easy and Delicious Gluten Free Cake Recipes For Every Occasion

36 Easy and Healthy Corn Flake Recipes for Every Meal | Whether you're looking for healthy breakfast ideas, want to try something new for lunch or dinner, or need guilt-free snacks, desserts, and treats to satisfy your sweet tooth, these corn flake recipes will not disappoint! From no-bake cornflake bars, crispy French toast, and a hash brown casserole, to baked chicken fingers and make ahead funeral potatoes, to butterscotch corn flake cookies and fried ice cream, these recipes are so tasty!

36 Easy and Healthy Corn Flake Recipes for Every Meal

40 Peloton Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You | Whether you own a Peloton bike or treadmill, or workout via the app, it's an all-in-one option for at home workouts. From indoor cycling and treadmill workouts, to strength training and core workouts, to yoga, pilates, barre, and stretching, there are tons of options, and we've compiled our favorite Peloton instructor quotes from Jess Sims, Cody Rigsby, Alex Toussaint, Robin Arzon, Ally Love, Kendall Toole, and more!

40 Peloton Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You Everyday!

10 Tips to Prevent and Recover From Overtraining Syndrome | Overtraining can cause so many symptoms, from injuries, to mood disorders, to fatigue and insomnia, to hormonal imbalances and more. If you want to know how to avoid overtraining as well as the best recovery tips, this post is a great resource. We're sharing signs and symptoms to watch for, and tons of helpful advice to help you train smarter, not harder.

10 Tips to Help You Prevent and Recover From Overtraining Syndrome

How to Reinvent Yourself When You Feel Stuck | If you're looking for ways to feel motivated to change when you feel stuck, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you. Whether you're looking for inspiration to help you figure out how to completely transform your life, or you just want to take a few small steps to better yourself, remember that it's never too late to change! If you're in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond, these little habits can give your life the makeover you're craving.

How to Reinvent Yourself When You Feel Stuck: 10 Tips and Ideas

Glow Up Challenge 101 | If you want to know how to transform your life, committing to a Glow Up Challenge is a great way to start. Whether you decide on a 30 day period or opt for something shorter or longer, there are tons of small changes you can make to your daily habits to improve your physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as the way you FEEL about yourself, both inside and out. You've probably heard all about Glow Ups on TikTok, and this post has 10 ideas to help you get started!

Glow Up Challenge: 10 Ways to Transform Yourself in 30 Days

How to Balance Blood Sugar Naturally | If you want to know how to lower blood sugar levels through lifestyle changes and diet, this post has lots of great tips to help. We're sharing tons of great information - symptoms of both low blood sugar and high blood sugar, smart tips to lower and control blood sugar, and a list of foods to lower blood sugar plus diet foods to avoid. Whether you have diabetes, hyperglycaemia, or hypoglycaemia, these natural ways to balance blood sugar will help!

How to Balance Blood Sugar Naturally: 8 Tips that Help

16:8 Intermittent Fasting for Beginners | Intermittent fasting has gained popularity in the weight loss and maintenance space, bit it offers many other health benefits too. It can help decrease visceral fat, improve cognition and brain function, decrease insulin resistance, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduce inflammation! There are many different intermittent fasting meal plans and intermittent fasting schedules to choose from, and this post has tons of tips for beginners!

Weight Loss that Lasts: 16:8 Intermittent Fasting Tips for Beginners

8 Healthy Bedtime Snacks for Weight Loss and Better Sleep | Going to bed hungry can be a recipe for disaster, but if you're not careful, snacking before bed can cause you to consume excess calories, leading to weight gain. If you're looking for healthy snacks you can eat before bed to beat insomnia and help you lose weight, this post has tons of ideas including low carb snacks, low calorie snacks, high protein snacks, and everything in between.

8 Healthy Bedtime Snacks for Weight Loss and Better Sleep

11 Ways to Stop Hunger Cravings for Unhealthy Foods | If you find it difficult to resist cravings for sugar, sweets, junk food, refined carbs, salty snacks, or all of the above, this post is for you! We're sharing common causes of food cravings, and our favorite tips and hacks to help kick cravings to the curb once and for all! Whether you struggling specifically with hormonal PMS cravings, or late night snacking is an everyday occurrence for you, these tips work!

11 Ways to Stop Hunger Cravings for Unhealthy Foods

7 Walking Workouts for Weight Loss | If you want to create a walking workout plan for weight loss, this post has lots of tips and workouts to choose from ranging from 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes...all the way to an hour! You can make these as easy or hard as you want. Whether you like to workout at the gym, at home, outside, or a combination of the 3, we'll help you get your steps and miles in each day!

7 Walking Workouts for Weight Loss for Beginners and Beyond

How to Apologize | If you want to know how to say I'm Sorry to your boyfriend or girlfriend, to your husband or wife, to your child, to your best friend, to your mom or dad, or anyone else who has significant meaning in your life, this post is for you! We're sharing tons of great tips to help you know what you SHOULD apologize for, what you SHOULD NOT apologize for, and how to say I'm Sorry sincerely. If you've done something disrespectful to a friend or at work, we've got you covered!

How to Apologize: 13 Ways to Say ‘I’m Sorry’ and Move Forward

33 Meaningful Mental Health Tattoos | If you're thinking of getting a tattoo and have been searching for a tattoo design that symbolizes one or more mental health challenges you or someone you love face, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you. From minimal word tattoos, to delicate butterfly designs, to specific mental health symbols like the semicolon, lotus flower, green ribbon for mental health, and unique serotonin symbol tattoo ideas, we've got something for everyone!

33 Meaningful Mental Health Tattoos to Give You Strength & Courage

15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome | What is metabolic syndrome? Are there symptoms? What are the treatment options? What is the best diet to follow if you have it? These are all great questions, and while there is no diet plan or exercise plan designed specifically to reverse metabolic syndrome, there are lifestyle changes you can make and a list of foods you should and should not eat to help. If you want to know how to cure metabolic syndrome, give this a read!

Syndrome X: 15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome

Bedtime Yoga for Beginners | If you find it difficult to get a good night's sleep thanks to stress, anxiety, and or general busy-ness, this post is a great resource. It shares the benefits of creating a bedtime yoga routine, includes a list of budget-friendly yoga essentials, as well as tips on the best easy poses and stretches to help you relax and unwind for a night of quality sleep. We've also included 3 quick yoga sequences you can try, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 minutes.

Bedtime Yoga 101: 7 Tips and Routines for a Better Sleep

9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss | If clean eating is your goal, meal planning and prepping is a must. The key to any healthy lifestyle change is to keep it easy and simple, and we're sharing our best tips and hacks to help! Whether you're specifically tackling one meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks), or want to completely overhaul the way you plan your weekly grocery list based on the recipes you plan on making, this post has it all!

Eat Clean in Less Time: 9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded | Raising awareness about mental health struggles should be a priority, and this collection of quotes, sayings, and mantras is a great resource. Perfect for parents, for family, for students, for kids, for teachers and everyone in between, these short, simple, and inspiring quotes and affirmations about mental health will help calm your mind, reduce stress and anxiety, and allow you to feel calm and accepted when life gets hard.

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded