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15 Leg and Glute Workouts | Whether you workout at home or at the gym, prefer to use weights (dumbbells, barbells, or kettlebells) or resistance bands, or need no equipment workouts you can stream from anywhere, this post has the best exercises to help you tighten and tone your legs, butt, and thighs. We've included 10 exercises, including squat and lunge variations, glute bridges, and dead lifts, as well as the best videos you can stream for free so you can workout anywhere!

Tighten and Tone: 15 Leg and Glute Workouts for Women

9 Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies that Work | Mosquito bites don't just make you itchy - they can also cause swelling and discomfort, and in some cases, they can become infected. While using a good repellent can help prevent mosquito bites, we don't always have it on hand when we need it. If you want to know how to get rid of mosquito bites and the symptoms they cause fast, try these natural DIY remedies for kids and for adults at home for quick relief!

Stop The Itch! 9 Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies that Work

How to Forgive Yourself For Past Mistakes | If you're dealing with feelings of guilt and shame over something you've said or done, and you're in need of self-forgiveness tips to help you move forward, this post is a great place to start. There are so many great forgiveness quotes and affirmations that can help you feel empowered and in control in the moment, but these tips break down the process of learning to forgive yourself once and for all so you can let go and find peace.

How to Forgive Yourself For Past Mistakes: 8 Self-Forgiveness Tips

40 No Churn Homemade Ice Cream Recipes | If you want to know how to make ice cream without an ice cream maker, this post is for you! We've curated 40 recipes that are equal parts easy and delicious, and they all have step by step instructions to teach you how to make homemade ice cream. Whether you like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, peach, coffee, peanut butter, oreo, banana, or lemon, there are lots of healthy homemade ice cream recipes, including keto, vegan, paleo, and dairy-free options!

No Machine? No Problem! 40 No Churn Homemade Ice Cream Recipes

60 Healthy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas for Weight Loss | From breakfast bowls, sandwiches, and breakfast casserole ideas to freeze, to overnight oats, smoothies, and muffins, these meal prep breakfast recipes are easy, healthy and delicious! Whether you follow a high protein, low carb keto diet, eat only low calories foods, or you follow a more specific diet (paleo, Whole30, vegetarian, or vegan), there's a recipe here for you! Enjoy these at home or on-the-go!

60 Healthy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas for Weight Loss

5 Best At Home CrossFit Workouts for Beginners | Whether you're looking for no equipment workouts, or workouts with dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells, and a medicine ball, these fat-burning, full body WOD workouts have it all. We've included an EMOM, HIIT, and AMRAP workout, with options to help you squeeze in a quick upper body workout with abs when you're short on time. Perfect for men and for women, these CrossFit workouts at home will help you lose weight and build muscle!

5 Best At Home CrossFit Workouts for Beginners and Beyond

How to Stop Being Codependent | Overcoming codependency isn't easy, but it is possible. If you want to know how not to be codependent in your relationships with important people in your life - your mother or father, your husband or wife, and/or in your friendships - we're sharing 5 simple tips that work. We're also answering questions like 'what is codependency' and 'what are the signs of codependent relationships?', and other facts that will be important in your recovery.

How to Stop Being Codependent: 5 Tips to Break Bad Habits

How to Increase Flexibility Fast | If you want to know how to become more flexible in your hamstrings, hips, triceps, shoulders, and/or back, we're sharing our best tips along with 7 of the best stretching exercises for flexibility. Perfect for beginners and beyond, adding these stretches for flexibility to your daily workout regime will give you better posture and balance, resulting in greater mobility, less pain, and fewer injuries!

How to Increase Flexibility Fast: 7 Best Stretching Exercises

How to Forgive Someone Who Hurt You | If you're looking for tips to help you let go of feelings of anger towards people who have hurt you in your relationships. we're sharing 7 ideas to help you forgive and move on. Whether it's a parent, spouse, child, co-worker, or one of your close friends, the thoughts in this post will give you perspective, help you decide if you want to fix the relationship, establish boundaries, or move on - and we'll show you how to do it without shame or guilt.

How to Forgive Someone Who Hurt You: 9 Tips to Help You Move On

21 Desserts Under 100 Calories | If you're looking for quick, easy, and healthy desserts that won't ruin your weight loss goals, we've curated the best of the best! This collection includes recipes for people who follow a vegan, keto, and/or gluten-free diet, with tons of guilt free, sugar free, low calorie desserts to choose from. Whether you prefer chocolate, peanut butter, strawberry, or banana desserts, cookies, muffins, brownies, cheesecake, or ice cream, we've got something for everyone!

Guilt Free and Delicious: 21 Desserts Under 100 Calories

How to Deal with Gaslighting | If you want to know the signs of gaslighting, as well as tips and ideas to help you learn how to deal with someone who is trying to manipulate you in an effort to gain power and control over you, we're sharing 8 tips to help. Learn the true definition of gaslighting, and how you can effectively manage it with in your relationships with your spouse or parents, in your friendships, and even with your co-workers or your boss at work.

How to Deal with Gaslighting: 8 Tips for Healthier Relationships

How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone | If you're looking for the inspiration and motivation to be more confident, productive, fulfilled, and to take on new challenges, we're sharing 7 simple ways to get out of your own way so you can live your life with greater purpose and authenticity. Stepping outside of the things that make you feel safe and secure isn't easy, but these ideas will help you break the cycle so you can live to your full potential!

How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone: 7 Tips that Work

5 Core Strength Workouts You Can Do At Home | Perfect for women, for men, for beginners, and beyond, these core strengthening exercises will improve your balance, stability, and posture, tighten and tone your abs, and they are perfect for back pain! If you want flat abs, you can do these core exercises at the gym or at home with little to no equipment, and if you're looking to strengthen your core after baby, we've included a 10-minute workout you can start after pregnancy.

How to Strengthen Your Core: 5 At Home Core Strength Workouts

How to Set Boundaries | Setting boundaries in your relationships can be hard, especially if it's with a narcissist, with parents, with in-laws, with friends, with kids, at work, and with toxic people you don't want to cut out of your life. If you're looking for tips to improve your relationships as well as your physical, emotional, and mental well-being, we're sharing 9 tips for creating healthy boundaries in your personal and professional life.

How to Set Boundaries: 9 Tips for Healthier Relationships

Endometriosis Diet for Beginners | If you suffer from endometriosis and you're interested in making lifestyle changes to help manage your pain and other symptoms, following an Endo Diet is one of the more common natural treatments women turn to. We're sharing all the facts - what is endometriosis, what causes endometriosis, the signs and symptoms - plus a grocery list of items to eat (and avoid) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Endometriosis Diet for Beginners: What to Eat and What to Avoid

24 Hidden Veggie Recipes for Kids | If you're looking for healthy recipes for kids who are picky eaters and refuse to eat vegetables, we're sharing the best of the best! With tons of options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and dessert, you'll learn simple and creative ways to hide vegetables in your cooking and baking! Clean eating for families with kids has never been easier or tasted so good!

How to Deal with Picky Eaters: 24 Hidden Veggie Recipes for Kids

9 Recovery Day Workout Ideas | If you're looking for active recovery workouts for days you're dealing with muscle soreness from strength training or body fatigue from running and high intensity interval training workouts, we're sharing 9 exercises you can do at home - and at the gym - to help your body rest and repair. Active recovery days are an essential part of any training program - even CrossFit! It allows your body to repair itself, and also improves your energy, performance, and stamina.

How to Have an Active Rest Day: 9 Recovery Day Workout Ideas

How to Break Bad Habits | If you're looking for the best ways to stop bad habits, we're sharing 9 tips and steps to get you on the path to lasting change! While we used to think it took 21 days to change habits, research suggests it takes much longer. If you struggle with self-discipline and want to know how to have the willpower needed to ditch the things that are holding you back, these self-improvement tips are key to your personal development, personal growth, and happiness.

How to Break Bad Habits: 9 Self-Improvement Tips You Need to Know

40 Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie Recipes | If you're looking for smoothie recipes that help fight inflammation, these ideas are easy, tasty, and chock full of good-for-you anti-inflammatory foods! From the best (IMHO) anti-inflammatory blueberry smoothie, to a superfood berry turmeric smoothie, to a ginger anti-inflammatory smoothie - with lots of dairy free options in between - these recipes reduce inflammation and chronic pain, boost your immune system, and may help you lose weight to boot!

Drink Up! 40 Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie Recipes Worth Trying

60 Superfood Recipes for Every Meal | If you're looking for healthy ways to upgrade your breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and desserts with good for your ingredients like dark leafy greens, berries, nuts, seeds, salmon, and avocado, we've curated the best of the best! These clean eating recipes are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, and since they're also low in calories, they're good for weight loss and for fat burning too!

Clean Eating 101: 60 Superfood Recipes for Every Meal

Virtual Team Building Activities and Games | Working from home has its perks, but personal connections, company morale, and group productivity can suffer when working remotely. If you're looking for ice breakers and team building activities for coworkers you can use to keep your team members engaged, these fun games and challenges will inspire you! If you want to know how to build a positive team culture with your employees, these ideas are perfect!

12 Virtual Team Building Activities and Games to Boost Morale