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40 Anxiety Tattoos | If you're looking for meaningful tattoo ideas to raise mental health awareness and help you cope with the symptoms of anxiety, we've curated 40 beautiful designs to inspire you. Whether you're considering a semicolon tattoo, a 'breathe' or 'inhale exhale' tattoo, word tattoos like 'courage', 'fearless', and 'warrior', or mantras and quote tattoos, you can make each of these unique to you! Perfect for women and men, tattoo these on your wrist or forearm!

40 Anxiety Tattoos to Give You Strength and Help You Cope

7 Tips for Socially Awkward People | If you want to know how not to be socially awkward, we're sharing 7 tips and truths to help. While we can't promise to turn you into an extrovert, there are lots of strategies you can use to improve the way you communicate with others, develop your social skills, make friends, and improve your social life. If you have problems with friendships and dating, these tips are for you!

How Not To Be Socially Awkward: 7 Tips to Improve Your Social Life

5 Postpartum Pelvic Floor Exercises for New Moms | If you're looking for exercises you can do post-baby to help strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, treat incontinence, and close a diastasis recti, we're sharing 5 workout videos you can do at home. There are tons of benefits of doing pelvic floor exercises after natural childbirth, a c-section, and a hysterectomy, and these are helpful for prolapse as well. From kegels, to postpartum yoga, to exercises with weights, give these a try!

5 Strengthening Postpartum Pelvic Floor Exercises for New Moms

7 Lifestyle Changes to Lower Your Blood Pressure | If you're looking for ideas to help you lower your blood pressure risk quickly and naturally, we're sharing 7 tips you can start implementing TODAY to reduce your risk for hypertension and improve your heart health. Knowing the causes of high blood pressure and making small changes to your diet and lifestyle can make a world of difference in the prevention and management of heart disease! #bloodpressure #highbloodpressure #hearthealth

Heart Health 101: 7 Lifestyle Changes to Lower Your Blood Pressure

How to Get Rid of Psoriasis | If you're looking for more information about the types of psoriasis, symptoms, treatment options, and natural remedies to help treat and prevent a flare-up, this post is a great place to start. Whether you have psoriasis on your scalp, hands, feet, or face, or it affects larger parts of your skin, we're sharing natural treatments to calm your skin and relieve pain and redness! #psoriasis #psoriasistreatment #psoriasisremedies

How to Get Rid of Psoriasis: 9 Tips and Remedies to Try

8 Gas and Bloating Remedies I Swear By | If you want to know how to get rid of gas and bloating fast, we're sharing 8 bloating relief remedies that work. Whether you have smelly, stinky, trapped gas after eating the wrong foods, PMS or period pain, or suffer from IBS, these natural remedies offer overnight relief. The secret to a flat belly isn't always stomach crunches and ab exercises - these lifestyle and diet changes can help! #bloating #bloatingrelief #bloatingremedies

8 Gas and Bloating Remedies For Fast and Effective Relief

11 Pelvic Organ Prolapse Treatments and Exercises | If you suffer from pelvic floor prolapse and dysfunction due to pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, or age, and you're looking tips to help you strengthen and tighten your pelvic floor muscles, this post has all the facts, natural treatment options, stretches, and exercises you need. From knowing the symptoms, to figuring out how to repair prolapse without surgery, this is a must read for women! #pelvicfloor #prolapse #pelvicfloorexercises

Pelvic Organ Prolapse: 11 Treatments and Exercises that Help

Hashimoto’s Disease Diet | If you're an autoimmune warrior looking for a food plan to help an under-active thyroid, you've probably heard all kinds of conflicting info. Should you go gluten free? Paleo? Vegetarian? Vegan? While natural remedies for thyroid are not meant to replace medication, they can work in tandem to keep your symptoms under control and making losing weight easier. We're sharing 10 foods to eat and avoid if you have Hashimoto's! #hashimotos #hashimotosdisease #thyroiddiet

Hashimoto’s Disease Diet: 10 Foods to Eat and Avoid

60 Inspirational Quotes That Make You Think | If you're looking for a little motivation, inspiration, and encouragement, we're sharing our favorite positive quotes for women and for men about strength, about love, about relationships, about happiness, about change, about dreams, about life, and everything in between. These are great daily mantras, and some of the short ones make great tattoos! #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #selfhelp #quotesforwomen

60 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes That Make You Think

How to Stop Overthinking | If you're looking for practical tips to help you stop overthinking about everything - particularly the things you can't control - this post is for you! We're sharing 9 helpful strategies to help you stop worrying about what could go wrong, start focusing on what can go right, and begin living your life to the fullest each and everyday. If you're a chronic over-thinker, these tips will help! #stopoverthinking #selfhelp #selfimprovement #stopworrying

How to Stop Overthinking and Worrying: 9 Tips that Help

7 Tea Remedies for Every Ailment | If you're looking for natural remedies for cold, headache, and sore throat, for cough, for sinus pain, for allergies, for menstrual cramps, for bloating, nausea, and other stomach ailments, to lower blood pressure, and even for acne, eczema, and other skin complaints, we're sharing the 7 best herbal teas to alleviate pain and discomfort while also giving your immune system a boost! #tearemedies #herbaltea #immunebooster

Herbal Tea 101: 7 Tea Remedies for Every Ailment

How to Get Rid of Bad Breath | If you're looking for an effective remedy to help cure chronic bad breath, this post is for you! We're sharing common causes of bad breath and how to fix it, including simple DIY natural remedies that work, and store bought products we swear by. These tips will help you figure out how to tell if you have bad breath, the reasons it's persisting, and how to stop it once and for all! #badbreath #badbreathremedies #badbreathremedies #naturalremedies

How to Get Rid of Bad Breath: 25 Causes and Remedies

How to Calm Down When Angry | Perfect for adults, children, teens, and especially overwhelmed parents, these anger management tips will teach you how to deal with anger in the moment, and will provide you with coping skills and exercises you can use to develop a plan that promotes better temper control to avoid feelings of anger and frustration from occurring in the first place. #calmdown #angermanagement #selfhelp #copingskills

How to Calm Down When Angry: 11 Tips that Work

8 Morning Hacks to Start Your Day Off Right | Perfect for teens, for college students, for moms getting small kids up and ready for school, and for lazy people with a long hair and beauty routine who can't seem to wake up early no matter how hard they try, we're sharing 8 life hacks to streamline your mornings and kick off your day with a bang! If you hate Mondays, this post is for you! #morninghacks #morningroutine #morningtips

Life Hacks 101: 8 Morning Hacks to Start Your Day Off Right

6 Tips to Find Balance During the Holiday Season | If you're trying to find balance in life, but constantly feel pulled in a million different directions, we're sharing 6 life hacks to help you set boundaries at work, with family, and with friends so you can unplug, rest, and recharge. We're also sharing 2 tools we use in our house to set healthy boundaries with technology so we can spend quality time together! #digitalwellbeing #android #findbalance #lifebalance #worklifebalance

6 Tips to Find Balance During the Holiday Season (and Beyond)

4 Intermittent Fasting Tips for Women | If losing weight feels more challenging now that you're over 40 (or over 50), intermittent fasting is a great option to consider. This is a great post for beginners as it explains the different plans (16/8, 5/2, Eat-Stop-Eat, The Warrior Diet, etc.) so you can figure out the best fat-burning plan for your schedule, along with helpful tips to get started and get the most out of your workout! #intermittentfasting #weightlossafter40 #loseweightfast

Losing Weight Over 40: 4 Intermittent Fasting Tips for Women

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome | From knowing the exact definition of imposter syndrome, to recognizing the signs and symptoms, to figuring out the best tips to overcome your self-limiting beliefs and feel good enough in everything you do, this post has 9 helpful tips help you believe in yourself, adopt a positive mindset, and find your motivation again! #impostersyndrome #positivemindset #selfhelp

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome: 9 Tips that Help

11 Headache Relief Tips We Swear By | Whether you suffer from tension headaches caused by stress, cluster headaches caused by seasonal changes, or chronic migraines caused by hormone changes, one thing is for sure: you need instant relief! From essential oils and pressure points, to herbal teas and dietary changes, to the best exercises to try (hello yoga!), click for a list of 11 natural headache remedies that really work! #headacherelief #headacheremedies #naturalremedies

Natural Remedies that Work: 11 Headache Relief Tips We Swear By

16 Mindfulness Activities For Women | Contrary to popular belief, mindfulness isn't just yoga and guided meditation. It's true! There are tons of other creative mindfulness exercises you can try to help you remain focused and centered without allowing intrusive thoughts, worries, or fears to permeate your mind. These calming, relaxing, and fun ideas are designed for adults, but many work for teens and even for kids! #mindfulness #mindfulnessactivities #selfcare #selfhelp

Self-Care for Women: 16 Mindfulness Activities You Actually Have Time For

How to Get Unstuck In Life | Are you stuck in a rut? Whether it's in your personal growth, relationships, career, or just a general lack of life motivation, these tips and strategies will give the inspiration to find a way forward if you're feeling stuck. Learn how to be more productive and how to have a positive mindset with these simple tips that work! #getunstuck #feelingstuck #selfhelp

How to Get Unstuck In Life: 9 Ways to Move Forward

19 Winter Self-Care Ideas | Cold weather got you down? Whether you suffer from the winter blues or full blown Seasonal Affective Disorder, one of the best tips for getting out of a funk is to create a list of self-care ideas to add to your calendar to help keep your physical, emotional, and psychological health balanced. Click for our favorite self-care activities and commit to the challenge of adding at least one idea to your daily routine! #selfcare #selfhelp #selfcareactivities #winterblues

Surviving the Winter Blues: 19 Winter Self-Care Ideas