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How to Reduce Stress Naturally | If you're looking for tips and ways to reduce your stress levels, this post has tons of practical ideas you can implement today! While yoga, deep breathing exercises, journalling, and meditation are common stress reducers, there are lots of other effective ways to destress at home. From calming foods and exercise to essential oils and sleep, these stress relieving activities offer natural ways to relieve stress, reduce tension, and combat anxiety fast!

How to Reduce Stress Naturally: 13 Tips and Hacks

How to Become a Morning Person | If you're looking for tips and hacks to help you transform yourself from a night owl into someone who wakes up early for school, for work, or with kids, this post is for you! We're sharing small habits and lifestyle changes you can start making TODAY to help you become an early riser without a super early bedtime, elaborate morning routines, and endless cups of coffee. Being a morning person is surprisingly easy - the trick is not to overthink it!

How to Become a Morning Person: 11 Tips & Hacks

11 Healthy Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes | If you follow a gluten-free diet to help manage the symptoms of celiac disease or a gluten intolerance, this post has tons of simple and easy desserts to help satisfy your sweet tooth! This post includes lots of options for every palate and dietary need, including super fast no bake options, desserts with 5 ingredients (or less), healthy, sugar free, low carb, low calorie, keto friendly, and vegan desserts, and so much more!

33 Simple and Delicious Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes Worth Trying

Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try | Spring is the perfect time to check in with your resolutions, measure your progress, and adjust or set new goals. Whether you want to lose your winter weight through healthy eating, train for a 5K, practice mindfulness, commit to self-care, or tackle your spring cleaning list, we're sharing tons of simple and creative ways you can break big goals down into manageable 30-day challenges to keep your motivation up.

Reboot Your Life: Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try

27 Gluten-Free Italian Recipes | Whether you have a gluten intolerance or full-blown celiac disease, it doesn't mean you need to give up your favorite Italian foods! This post has everything you need to satisfy your cravings, including resources to teach you how to make gluten-free pasta and tons of delicious Italian-inspired gluten-free recipes. From lasagna, calzones, and Italian meatballs, to tortellini, gnocchi, and ravioli, to panna cotta, tiramisu, and cannoli, these recipes are delish!

Che Buono: 27 Gluten-Free Italian Recipes We Love

50 Gluten-Free Recipes for Kids | If your child has a gluten intolerance or full-blown celiac disease, you'll love this collection of easy and tasty recipes! We've curated 10 recipes each for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and desserts, many of which are both dairy and gluten free. And if you're looking for sandwiches lunchbox ideas, there are so many options to choose from, including pizza twists, sausage rolls, pretzel bites, cheerios snack mix, apple fries and gluten-free chicken fingers!

Homemade with Love: 50 Gluten-Free Recipes for Kids

12 Magnesium-Rich Foods | If you suspect you or your kids have a magnesium deficiency, this post has lots of helpful information! We're sharing the signs, symptoms, and common causes of low magnesium, and the health benefits of adding magnesium to your daily diet - either through supplement or food. And if you're looking for natural remedies, we've included a list of 12 foods that are high in magnesium, including vegan, vegetarian, and keto options!

Hypomagnesemia 101: 12 Magnesium-Rich Foods to Help You Feel Better

26 Calcium Rich Foods For Bone Health | Whether you're looking for calcium rich foods for women or for men who follow a vegan diet, for toddlers who are picky eaters, and/or for kids who follow a dairy free diet due to foods sensitivities or allergies, this post is for you! We're sharing some background information on hypocalcemia / calcium deficiency, including signs, symptoms, causes, risk factors, and the role of vitamin D, plus a list of foods that are delicious and high in calcium!

26 Calcium Rich Foods To Eat For Better Bone Health

11 Cold Weather Running Tips and Hacks for Beginners | If you're new to winter running and want to know what to wear, how to choose the right gear, which running accessories you need, and tips to stay warm and dry so you don't get a chill, this post is for you! Dressing for the cold weather is key, and we'll teach you everything you need to know, from layering your outfit, to choosing the right socks and shoes, to staying dry and altering your route and training schedule, and more!

11 Cold Weather Running Tips and Hacks for Beginners

48 Celiac Disease Recipes | If you're looking for a collection of easy and delicious gluten-free recipes for yourself (or for kids), we've curated the best of the best! From breakfast, to lunch, to dinner, to snacks and desserts, these recipe ideas will not disappoint. We've also included a list of foods to eat and avoid on the celiac disease diet to help you create a grocery list and meal plan, as well as a little background info including the symptoms and causes of celiac disease.

Celiac Disease Diet: 48 Gluten-Free Recipes for Beginners

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck | If you're looking for remedies for a crick in the neck, this post has you covered! While neck and shoulder pain caused by a crick usually goes away on its own in a few days, there are stretches, exercises, and other natural remedies you can try for fast relief. And if you want to know how to sleep with a crick in the neck, we're sharing tons of tips and tricks to help reduce inflammation and relax your muscles for a good night of restorative sleep.

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck: 12 Tips and Remedies

9 Natural Colic Remedies | If you're a breast-feeding or bottle-feeding mama looking for tips, tricks, and remedies to help you and your newborn survive colic, this post has lots of helpful information, including the signs, symptoms, and causes of colic. From holding and swaddling, to dietary and formula changes, to movement and noise, we're sharing the best ideas to try for quick relief, allowing you and your babe to return to a place of calm asap.

Surviving Colic: 9 Natural Colic Remedies that Actually Work

7 Natural Nose Bleed Remedies That Work | If you want to know how to stop nose bleeding at home naturally, we've got tips and tricks to help! We're sharing lots of helpful information, including what causes nose bleeds, how to prevent nose bleeds, and our best home remedies to stop a nose bleed fast. Whether you're looking for tips to stop nose bleeds in kids or adults, we've got you covered!

Fast and Effective: 7 Natural Nose Bleed Remedies That Work

7 Natural Remedies for Shingles | If you're looking for natural treatments to manage the itching and pain of shingles, this post is for you! We're sharing some background information (what is shingles? what causes shingles? how can I prevent shingles?) as well as the best homemade DIY shingles relief treatments to help you feel better sooner. Whether you have shingles on the side of your torso or on your forehead, face, or neck, these tips work!

Natural Remedies for Shingles: 7 Home Treatments that Help

21 Eggless Cake Recipes | If you and/or your kids are allergic to eggs like I am, and you're on the hunt for simple and easy homemade egg free cake recipes, this post is just what you need! We've curated the best of the best, including a range of different types of cakes for every palate and dietary need. Whether you prefer something simple like vanilla or chocolate cake, or want something extravagant like red velvet, banana, or mango cake, these recipes are healthy, easy, moist, and delicious!

21 Delicious Eggless Cake Recipes You’ll Wish You Tried Sooner

How to Stop Boredom Eating | If you want to know how to overcome unhealthy eating habits, like boredom eating, stress eating, or any other type of emotional eating patterns, this post has tons of helpful tips to teach you how to control your mindset, how to beat cravings, and how to avoid eating your feelings. These clean eating strategies will help you figure how to control cravings before they start, allowing you to plan ahead and learn how to stop making unhealthy choices in the moment.

Emotional Eater? 9 Ways to Stop Boredom Eating One and For All

44 Gluten Free Cookies | If you're on the hunt for gluten-free cookie recipes to bake, this collection of ideas will not disappoint! We've curated the best of the best, including a range of options to suit your dietary needs and palate. From healthy, sugar-free, and vegan recipes, to easy no bake cookies and simple cookie bars, this post has it all. Grab your almond flour and coconut flour and learn how to make chewy chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter cookies, and so much more!

44 Flourless and Fabulous Gluten-Free Cookies You’ll Love

How to Stop Feeling Guilty | If you're looking for the best ways to stop feeling guilty about the past, for saying no, for setting boundaries, for breaking up with someone, for ending a friendship, or for something you said or did to someone you love, this post is just what you need! We're sharing XX simple tips to make dealing with guilt and feelings of regret in your relationships with yourself and others a little easier. Say goodbye to guilt trips and hello to a life of peace and happiness!

How to Stop Feeling Guilty: 8 Tips to Help You Let Go

5 Upper Back Pain Relief Tips & Exercises | If you're looking for upper back pain remedies for fast relief, this post is a great place to start! We're sharing common causes of back pain, along with pain relief tips, stretching exercises, yoga poses, sleeping hacks, and massage techniques to help reduce neck and upper back pain. Whether you have a stiff neck from hunching over a computer all day, upper back pain due to poor posture, or you've strained a muscle, these tips work!

10 Upper and Lower Back Pain Relief Tips and Exercises That Work

21 Plant Based Desserts that Satisfy | If you're looking for easy plant-based recipes that are equal parts healthy and delicious, this post is for you! We've curated tons of easy to make treats made from whole foods to support your dietary needs and clean eating goals. These vegan-inspired desserts are flour, oil, and sugar free and made with plant-based protein to keep you feeling full and satiated while also satisfying your sweet tooth! These desserts are great for weight loss too!

Healthy & Delicious: 21 Easy Plant-Based Desserts that Satisfy

How to Stop Drinking Alcohol | Trying to quit alcohol? Whether your booze of choice is wine, beer, or hard liquor, this post has tons of simple tips and ideas to keep you motivated and help you push through alcohol cravings like a boss. Removing alcohol from your diet is a very effective way to lose weight, and there are many other health benefits of eliminating alcohol from your diet. Learn how to cope with FOMO at home and while socializing with friends while you kick bad habits to the curb!

How to Stop Drinking Alcohol: 10 Tips and Tricks to Reduce Cravings