A stress bucket is a dynamic tool to visualize how stress or various life factors and events affect your health. Everyone is born with a stress bucket. Factors in your life affect whether that stress bucket is strong and withstanding or whether it’s full of holes, leaking and overflowing. In this post, let me introduce…
Letting go of guilt on your wellness journey is essential. Your personal health journey is yours. Use resources and guidelines to help you form a path, but don’t set your path in stone. You may have to change it to suit your own terrain, your own experiences and your own balance between staying on your…
Sleep and I don’t always see eye to eye. I long for it. I want it. And yet it sometimes alludes me. I know the main culprit is stress. While I’m working on that, I know it can’t always be completely controlled. So I make sure I follow good routines, get proper nutrition, exercise and…
Vitamin C has a ton of benefits for your health. It’s really best to get vitamin c from whole foods – there’s a lot of foods to choose from too! Supplements, if they are of good quality, can be beneficial as well. Let me tell you why you should be making sure you’re getting enough…
The March Herb of the Month, Lemon Balm (Melissa offiinalis), is nothing short of amazing! I first learned about Lemon Balm in my herbalism classes I take through a wonderful online school out of Boston. Check out CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism today if you are interested in learning more after today’s post (please note: I am…
According to a number of studies, being grateful leads to happiness and better physical health. Let’s discuss how gratitude can change your mindset and why that is important, and then offer some tips to get started! Why Is Mindset Important? Mindset refers to a person’s general attitude or approach to life. It determines how you…
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade! That’s a wonderful sentiment and great advice. But there is a whole lot more you can do with that lemon. Plus lemons have great health benefits. There is more to lemons than Lemonade! What are the health benefits to lemons? I love looking up nutritional information on the…
Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple, or free from complexity. I want to discuss the topic of simplicity in this post and how simplicity with your wellness basket can contribute to better health without overwhelming you. What Is Simplicity? Simplicity can have different meanings depending on the context, but generally, it refers…
I’m beginning what I hope to be a long series of Herb of the Month posts. Ever since taking courses through an herbal school out of Boston starting back in 2019, I have become positively enamored with herbs! Herbs line up quite a number of shelves in my kitchen and are combined together in a…
The mind-body connection has been a matter of observation, study, and discussion for centuries at the very least. It’s often, however, overlooked by many. I want to address this connection on this blog because when we are addressing holistic wellness. It’s important to be aware how much our thoughts affect our bodies. What Is The…