Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Health and Wellness”
Over the past two months I have covered all the various types of self-care, but one. And, that’s spiritual self-care. I guess I was saving it for last, because there are so many myths about the spirit and how one can perform self-care. In this week’s post, I hope to shed some light on spiritual self-care, identify a few practices …
In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow proposes a theory of psychology known as the hierarchy of needs. According Dr. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (frequently portrayed as a pyramid, although Maslow didn’t theorize it as such), physiological needs were the primary needs of humans and as a human developed emotionally, the needs would gain more non-physiological attributes. The most basic needs are …
As I say in Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year, Physical care is about getting enough movement in your daily lifestyle. You don’t need to get a gym membership and run three to five miles per day, to have proper physical self-care. It’s important to remember that 30 Move Minutes five times per week is recommended by the American Heart …
You remember the adage growing up that you are what you eat. In so many ways today that has been proven true by science. And, even with this insight, we all struggle to some extent today with the mountain of food and beverage options that nutrition self-care can be challenging. In this week’s edition, I cover the basics of nutritional …
While emotional self-care, as discussed in my last post, looks similar to mental self-care, it is unique and distinct. This is especially the case regarding how you approach your own mental health, since we are all so different in our experiences, brain chemistry and genes. In this week’s edition, I cover the basics of mental self-care and resources available to …
Having discussed the importance and ways prioritizing self-care in the new year, I outlined the various areas of your life you can focus on one at a time. Over the next couple months, I will dive a bit deeper into resources available to you for each of these areas of self-care, starting with emotional self-care. Long after new year’s resolutions …
After the Great Recession, workers around the world were shocked into a hyper state of productivity. While wage rates have stayed mostly the same for the past 20 years, each professional has had to prove their worthiness in the current economy with greater output and working overtime. The national stress levels have been impacted by the economic crisis since 2008 …
As 2019 rolls into 2020, this marks not only a new year but also a new decade. We mark new decades based on our birth years but also communely when a new decade happens. And, new decades only happen about eight or nine times in our lifetimes, so they’re a little more important than 11:59 PM ticking over to 12:00 …
As we discussed in last week’s post, you can make your own household cleaning products for a variety of cleaning needs. But, if you’re busy and don’t have time to do that, there must be solutions that are healthier and less harmful than those bought generally, right? Buying healthy household cleaning products doesn’t have to be difficult to help you …
Cleaning is a chore, but a clean home is a healthy home to live in. And, one of the first way to start to eliminate toxins in your home is making your own healthy household cleaning products. In this two-part series, I’m covering why healthy household cleaning products help to make your home healthier, how to make your own household …
