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8 Ways to Move Forward When You're Feeling Stuck | If you're stuck in a rut and looking for tips to help you find your motivation and transform your life for the better, the post is for you! Whether you've been passed up for a promotion at work and now you're questioning your career path, you're struggling with feelings of failure, sadness, regret, or fear, or you're a mom who has lost her way, we're sharing 8 strategies to help you figure out your purpose and passion and get UN-stuck!

Transform Your Life: 8 Ways to Move Forward When You’re Feeling Stuck

8 Full Body Pilates Workouts for Beginners | Whether you're in your 20s or over 50, pilates is a great way to strengthen your core and improve your posture, flexibility, balance, and coordination. If you want to lose weight and tighten and tone your body at home, we're sharing 8 fat burning videos you can stream from anywhere. With both mat classes and reformer workouts to choose from, we've included exercises specifically for your abs, as well as a video to help with back pain.

Tighten and Tone: 8 Full Body Pilates Workouts for Beginners

11 Positive Habits that Will Change Your Life | If you've ever wondered what the daily habits of successful people look like, this post has 11 ideas you can start TODAY to find happiness, joy, and success. From effective daily routines, to tips for finding your motivation, to productivity and time management hacks we swear by, the tips and strategies in this post will teach you how to be the best version of yourself in every single thing you do!

Self-Improvement 101: 11 Positive Habits that Will Change Your Life

How To Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself | If you're looking for a little inspiration to help you get out of a funk and stop feeling sorry for yourself, we're sharing 7 tips to help you drop those feelings of self-pity and self-blame once and for all. These tips and truths will give you the motivation, wisdom, and strength to overcome the victim mentality, set new goals, and adopt an attitude of gratitude every single day.

7 Ways to Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself and Improve Your Life

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