So much of joy and happiness in life comes down to gratitude and perspective. If we change our perspective, if we look at life as happening for us rather than to us, if we take moments to be grateful for everything we have and everything we are, we open ourselves up to a completely
Connecting with nature releases feel good chemicals in our brains and actually reduces stress. We were designed to be in nature. Humanity has always had a close relationship with nature until only a couple hundred years ago when we moved from farming to factory working. Our ancestors thrived in nature
It may not seem like a big deal, but when you’re only filling a fraction of your lung capacity, it affects focus, cell metabolism, and many other functions in the body. Shallow breathing increases blood pressure and the heart rate. It can also cause sleep issues, complicating fatigue experienced by
The Holiday Hangover. We’ve all felt it. That worn out, flu-like feeling after the holidays. Yeah. That’s your adrenals. The brain fog, the tiredness, the food cravings, possibly depression or anxiety and sometimes even joint pain or diarrhea – it’s all your body letting you know that you’re doing too
There’s so much pressure to make the holidays magical and perfect and to get it all done. I liken the season of October through January to running a marathon in high heels without having any spectators to cheer me on. No one’s waving encouraging signs, no one’s offering me a
par·a·digm noun A self-paradigm is the ways we look at ourselves and the world around us. It’s the lens through which we make sense of our experiences and assign motivation to other’s actions. It’s basically a set of mental glasses we see the world through. But what if those glasses
There are two different types of anxiety as far as I’m concerned. There’s the everyday underlying anxiety that’s just there in the back of your mind, not necessarily showing itself, but you know it’s there. And then there’s the anxiety spiral – that panic-inducing anxiety that stops you in your
When I started Balance Health Products, I never dreamed how much I would lean on my journalism degree. Through it I had learned the most effective ways to research. I had learned how to take large and complicated amounts of information and distill it down to its purest form and
Trigger warning: This article contains scenes which may be hard for those with anxiety, panic attacks or intrusive thoughts to read. I started having panic attacks when I was 24. They were horrible. My first one was going over the 520 bridge at night. The floating bridge is about 2
When my oldest son was three, I put him in an early preschool program because, quite frankly, I needed some me time. About three months in, the director flagged me down in the hallway full of moms and told me she needed to talk to me later. When I asked