It can be quite a strange transition to make from having the role of a child to becoming a ‘parent’ or caregiver for your parents. These days, it’s a role that many grown-up children assume when their parents get older and need help and support to live independently. You’re likely reading this today because you …
Exercising with an Autoimmune Disease
The tiring symptoms of autoimmune diseases can often make exercise routines feel like a chore. However, living with an autoimmune disease doesn’t mean you can’t develop an invigorating exercise routine and experience the rewarding benefits from it. In fact, exercise can provide a variety of fantastic benefits for those with autoimmune conditions to help improve …
Effective Ways To Cope With Parenting Stress
To say that parenting is difficult is a huge understatement. Not only is it physically and emotionally draining, but your good work often goes unrewarded. When you’re completely responsible for someone else’s wellbeing, you’re sure to feel stressed. However, you must not let that pressure overwhelm you or impact your daily life. Taking care of …
How to Start Your Self-Care Journey Today
What is Self-Care? We all have days when the stress we feel in our everyday lives becomes overwhelming. Whether it is work, spousal or familial stress, we all have experienced a worrisome situation at least once in our lives. Although stress is an unavoidable part of life, that doesn’t mean you should allow it to …
New Baby? Care For Yourself Too
When the new baby comes, most of the time everything is centered around the perfect new human in your lives. You need to remember to take care of yourself too. Both physically and emotionally, your body will be wrecked. Your immune system will be lower too, meaning it might be easier to catch an illness. …
3-Point Introduction to Self-Care
It’s a simple reality of life that people are often not very gentle or forgiving towards themselves, and frequently end up experiencing major burnouts, or enduring unresolved health issues, due to insufficient “self-care.” “Self-care,” is one of those terms that means many different things, to many different people. In some contexts, it will be a …
First Steps to Beginning Your Essential Oils Journey
Written by Shawn Lee Midkiff, DoTerra Oils Educator Chemicals in prescription medication can cause more issues than help. Dependency is also a distinct possibility even long after the issue could have been resolved. However, there is a natural answer to what ails you. Chronic pain has been a way of life for me for years. I …
Five Proven Ways to Give Your Mental Health a Boost
Mental health is so important, it’s not something we can see but the way we feel affects everything we do in our lives. If you feel down, anxious or just not like yourself, you’ll never be able to enjoy life to its full potential and can look back and feel as though you’ve wasted your …
Self Care Rituals For Health And Happiness
Having your own self-care rituals that you perform every day will give you a much better sense of wellbeing. Some people really do tend to neglect themselves for one reason or another, whether that’s because they are busy with work or they have a family to take care of. The fact is, no matter what …
Meditation Series Part 1: Just Breathe…
Meditation has many incredible benefits and this past year I connected with local Meditation Teacher Pamela White. She is amazing and a wonderful teacher. She is going to be doing some guests posts for us and I am thrilled! You guys are in for a treat! JUST BREATHE…. The Holidays for many of us have …