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I’m 50 Today! Musings On Turning A Half Century Old + 7 Longevity Tips

  Well today I turned 50!  Woot! So here is how I am approaching my very first day of being 50. Or at least how I’ve thought about it in the past few months leading up to it — who knows how I’ll feel a year or two into it.  But for now, my thoughts are this: I don’t want to be an older woman trying to hold onto being young. I always found it depressing to hear  “OMG you’re 50?!?!  You look 10 years younger!”  Or to hear people try to cheer me up by saying “you look FANTASTIC […]

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6 All Natural Ways To Relieve The Chronic Pain You’ve Been Dealing With For So Long

    Last week, I touched on the role of CBD oil in relieving pain on the skin from Shingles — it’s quite effective! — so hop over here to read that article if the chronic pain you live with is dermatological.   But today I want to go a little deeper — literally — into chronic pain and things you can add onto your current conventional treatments to help get even more pain relief.  After attending a medical conference about cutting edge treatments for pain and pain management breakthroughs, I was shocked to hear how very little we can

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5 Important Ways To Feel Loved And Boost Your Heart’s Health This Week

    It’s Valentines Day this week, and regardless of if you spend it with a person you love, a pet you love, doing an activity you love or giving yourself much needed break and some healing alone time on Valentines, any and all of these things can benefit your heart function, so it’s a great time for my annual review on all the ways you can support your heart’s health. I’ve got you covered on how to boost your heart health from every single angle!  Physically, energetically, emotionally. Let’s go:     1.  A Heart Boost From Grounding To

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Grounding Improves Your Relationship, Even Boosts Your Sex Life (Re: Valentine’s Day!)

    With Valentines Day coming up next week, I thought this might be the perfect time to talk about why my favorite holistic healing therapy of all time — grounding — can boost your partner’s health, even boosting their sex drive and fertility! More on that below. Did you know that grounding together might just be the best Valentines date you could plan?  Getting grounded routinely is probably helping your relationship in more ways than you know!  First of all, just by touching your partner, you can actually donate electrons to them.  It’s true! When you were a kid,

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5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

    It’s mid-august, and that means back-to-school season, so the next three blog posts are here to help support your transition to that this time brings. There can be a lot of stress associated with back-to-school season.   For some, back-to-school means an increased risk of in person bullying (as well as social media bullying) and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well as

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How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

  Although the traditional approach to weight loss focuses on calories in vs. calories burned, we are starting to become more and more aware about how our environment actually impacts our weight.  There are many contributing factors, well beyond diet and exercise, that cause significant issues in our metabolism. In fact, the environment has such an impact on our weight that there is an entire category of environmental chemicals that are now considered obesogens — chemicals directly responsible for contributing to obesity.  Obesogens increase fat has, modify our basal metabolic rate, alter our gut microbiota, promote chronic inflammation, interfere with

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7 Anti-Aging Daily Routines That Are Absolutely Worth Doing

    Well hello there!  I’m getting older.  This past weekend was my birthday! 49 — it feels like a transition year, the perfect year to get everything sorted so I can jump into my 50s feeling my best… or at least that’s the goal. To celebrate, I wanted to share my daily wellness routines that I do to keep improving my health and boosting longevity — each one of these are scientifically backed with research so that I know it is worth my time.  And yours. Watch this 3 minute video and I’ll run you through each of them

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