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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

10 Morning Workout Motivation Tips | If you're looking for a little inspiration to help you get up early and get in a good sweat sesh to kickstart your day, we're sharing our best morning motivation tips to help! Whether it's a gloomy Monday or a lazy Saturday, these morning motivation tips will help you create daily routines to increase your energy, boost your metabolism, feel happier, sleep better, and lose weight fast! If you want to know how to get up early and workout, these ideas work!

No Excuses! 10 Morning Workout Motivation Tips to Get You Out of Bed

10 Trampoline Workouts For Weight Loss | Whether you have a mini indoor trampoline in your basement or a big full size trampoline in your backyard, there are tons of ways you can use it to lose weight. Jumping is such a great form of exercise, and we're excited to share our favorite trampoline exercise tips and routine ideas for beginners and beyond! The benefits of having a trampoline aren't just for kids - the offer a great way for adults to squeeze HIIT and cardio in at home too!

Get Fit at Home: 10 Trampoline Workouts For Weight Loss

How to be a Positive Person | If you're looking for tips and ideas to help you figure out how to be a more positive and happy person in all aspects of your life - at work, at home, in your relationships, as a parent, etc. - we're sharing 9 tips to inspire you! From morning routines and gratitude lists, to self-care tips and positive mantras, these daily habits of successful people will help you live a healthy and more intentional life!

How to be a Positive Person: 9 Tips for a Happier Life

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

60 Homemade Bread Recipes to Try | If you're looking for easy simple and healthy homemade bread recipes, we've got tons of ideas to help! From the best recipes for beginners, to easy no yeast recipes, to whole wheat and sour dough recipes, to our favorite gluten free bread recipes you can make by hand, we've got you covered. Whether you're making bread in the oven, instant pot, or a bread maker, we've got a recipe for you!

60 Easy and Delicious Homemade Bread Recipes to Try

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