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How to Stop Being a Hypochondriac | If you suffer from health anxiety and are prone to overthinking and worrying about every ache or illness, these helpful tips are for you! You'll learn the signs, symptoms, and dangers of being a hypochondriac, a list of things to help calm your anxious thoughts, and tips on how to deal with hypochondria and health anxiety long-term. While there is no immediate remedy to cure health anxiety, we'll teach you what to do and how to handle your thoughts.

How to Stop Being a Hypochondriac: 10 Tips to Overcome Health Anxiety

5 Benefits of Strength Training for Weight Loss | If you're trying to lose weight at home, lifting weights is one of the best exercises you can do. Resistance training creates an 'afterburn effect' and boosts your metabolism, while also burning belly fat, promoting bone health, and improving sleep. This post has all the details you need, including 5 tips to help you get started with weight training for weight loss!

5 Benefits of Strength Training for Weight Loss & How to Get Started

How to Get Bikini Ready Fast | Whether you're going on a beach vacation, or the summer months are quickly approaching, you're probably on the hunt for some sort of summer body workout plan to help you get your best bod in 30 days (or less). There are tons of meal plan and workout plan ideas that can help (21 day fix, anyone?), but the key to long-term results is to adopt healthy lifestyle changes you can sustain. This post has lots of great tips to teach how you to be confident in your skin!

How to Get Bikini Ready Fast: 10 Tips and Tricks That Work!

22 Zig Ziglar Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You | If you're in need of a little encouragement and positivity, this collection of motivating and inspirational quotes is for you! From goal setting, to helping others, to cultivating strong relationships, and more, these motivational quotes will help you take control and accountability of your life, allowing you to get out of your own way and do the work needed to help you create a happy, positive, and fulfilling life with the people you love!

22 Zig Ziglar Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You

10 Sunday Routine Ideas for a Productive Week Ahead | Sundays should be about self care, relaxing, and being lazy to give your body and mind an opportunity to destress and prepare for the week ahead. With that said, there is always a checklist of things to do to get your home in order before the workweek starts. The key is to find a perfect balance between the 2, and this post has a list of self care activities and productive planning ideas to inspire you!

10 Sunday Routine Ideas for a Productive Week Ahead

24 Upgraded Chicken Breast Recipes For Weight Loss | If you're sick and tired of making the same, boring baked chicken day in and day out, this post is for you! We've curated our favorite healthy chicken breast recipes that are quick, easy, and healthy to boot! Whether you prefer to cook your chicken in the oven, a skillet, an instant pot, or a crockpot / slow cooker, there's a recipe here for you. We've also included stuffed chicken breast recipes that are low carb and simply delish!

Sick of Chicken? 24 Upgraded Chicken Breast Recipes For Weight Loss

8 Natural Mood Boosters | If you want to know how to boost your energy so you can focus, be more productive, and feel happier in the process, this post has lots of genius tips to teach you how to boost your mood quickly. We've included a list of foods to give you energy when you're in need of a pick me up, supplements to boost your mood, and other simple and natural ways to boost those feel-good endorphins that help you feel like your best self.

8 Natural Mood Boosters to Make You Happier and More Energized

8 Brain Fog Remedies to Improve Clarity and Focus | If you suffer from mental fatigue due to stress, sleep deprivation, or another medical condition that makes it hard for you to concentrate, impairs your working memory, and/or makes multitasking challenging, this post is for you! We're sharing the signs and symptoms of brain fog, common causes, and lots of tips and hacks to help you feel more alert, focused, and energized!

Mental Fatigue? 8 Brain Fog Remedies to Improve Clarity and Focus

9 Immune Boosting Tips for Kids | If you're looking for natural immune boosters for kids, this post has lots of great ideas to help. While many moms use vitamins and essential oils, we're focusing on lifestyle changes and the best all natural food options to add to your grocery list so you can create healthy meals and immune boosting smoothie, juice, tea, and soup recipes your toddler, child, tween, and/or teen will love!

9 Immune Boosting Tips for Kids to Keep Your Little Ones Healthy

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