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9 Canker Sore Remedies | Canker sores and ulcers in the mouth are not fun, especially for kids! Whether you have a canker sore on your lips, cheeks, gums, tongue, or even in your throat (ouch!), one thing is for certain: you want fast acting relief! This post has tons of useful tips, including information on what causes canker sores, how to prevent canker sores, and quick home remedies for canker sores for toddlers, older kids, and adults.

Natural and Effective: 9 Canker Sore Remedies That Work Fast

11 Habits of Successful People | From creating a solid morning routine and consistent daily routines that keep your motivation and productivity up, to maintaining healthy habits all day, every day, to using your evening effectively, there are tons of small habits for success that can have a compounding effect on many other areas of your physical, emotional, mental, and working life. Perfect for college students, entrepreneurs, men, and women, these daily habits work!

Self-Improvement 101: 11 Habits of Successful People

Yoga for Kids | Whether you're looking for yoga poses you can do in the classroom, or kids yoga videos you can stream from home, we're sharing 12 kids yoga poses and videos designed to help little ones stretch and strengthen their bodies, while also allowing them to calm down, relax, focus, and concentrate. You can do these in the garden or at the beach in the summer, as part of your morning and/or bedtime routine to promote sleep, and they make great brain breaks for virtual learning too!

Yoga for Kids: 12 Poses and Videos to Help Kids Calm Down

8 Natural Sunburn Remedies | If you're looking for relief from too much sun exposure, this post has 8 different natural remedy ideas to help cool and soothe your skin while also relieving pain and discomfort. These treatment tips use ingredients and products you probably already have in your home - Aloe Vera, witch hazel, coconut oil, and tea to name a few! While a severe and blistered sunburn should be seen by a doctor, these at home remedies offer quick overnight relief for mild sunburns!

Too Much Sun! 8 Natural Sunburn Remedies That Work Fast

How to Manage Stress | If you're looking for stress management tips and techniques you can use at work, at home, at school, in college, as a mom, and/or in other areas of your life, we're sharing 9 ideas to help! From important preventative tips to finding stress relief activities you can use in the moment to help you calm down and relax, these natural remedies offer a great way to deal with chronic stress and the physical and emotional symptoms it causes for a happier, healthier you!

How to Manage Stress: 9 Techniques that Actually Help

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