Gardening for your Health
Plants and people are a good mixture. They exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. They cultivate caring and good nutrition. They brighten small spaces and create backyard escapes. Even more surprising,...
More Power to the Power Nap
Recovery is a wellness strategy that has to be planned, paced and peaceful. It is more than getting a good night’s sleep. It is sensing what your body needs to...
Apples: The Perfect Food
Apples are one of the top nutritious foods world wide. So simple, but why? They stay fresh for a long time, are easy to transport from the grower, can be...
Optimism and your Health: Strong Connections
Medical news has identified many lifestyle factors that increase disease but it’s time to look at the positive factors that promote healthy long lives. Optimism is top of the list....
Stretching for the Health of It
Babies stretch naturally and frequently through the day but adults tend to designate stretching to a regime leaving them feeling tight, tense and uncomfortable most of the time. Our muscles...
Seven Top Wellness Tips
Wellness is more than the absence of disease. It is the fullness of our emotional health. If we can use our physical abilities to their full potential and fuel our...
Does the Weather affect our Health?
People often complain of achy joints or migraine headaches as the weather changes, but is there any truth to it? Sudden changes in the weather can create unexpected hazards like...
The Value of Human Connections to our Health
Human connection has been identified by the World Health Organization as a key determinant of health, loneliness is bad for us. Our social support network seems to be just as...
How Gratitude Keeps US Well
Through these past weeks, we have seen a culture of goodness emerge. Moral decision-making that is based on what is right and just for all of us. From corporations to...
Minimalism is the Foundation of Well-Being
Minimalist would say that less is more, that giving is getting and that when our possessions are dispensable, we are free. Is this a way to wellness? Can we, during...