Living with a Chronic Disease
I have an autoimmune disease called Mastocytosis. It’s one of those rare, hard to diagnose and even harder to diagnose, diseases. Basically, it is caused my body having too many mast cells, which have...
5 Better Options than an Energy Drink
Everybody needs a little energy booster once in a while. Life gets exhausting at times. A lot of people pick up an energy drink every day. These drinks are not the best for your health, and they aren'...
The Ultimate Vacation
Traditionally speaking, meditation is a practice used to relax the body and calm the mind. The benefits of meditation through scientific research are numerous. I could get into discussing those benefits, but I want to talk to you about something else related to meditation.
In some esoteric circles or what some would call “Secret Societies,” it is understood through experimentation, ritual, and documentation of over thousands of years that the Universe is mental. Yes, the entire Universe is the m...
Foods to Put Out Your Throat Fire
I’m a lover of spicy and acidic foods, but not acid reflux.
The burning sensation in your throat with an dis-tasting after taste is not pleasant. When the hiccups occur, the feeling of my heart rate i...
My Bulleted Epilepsy Journey
This is the annoyingly long and drawn out (supposed) 'Reader's Digest' version of a story about an epileptic girl just trying to make sense of a senseless disorder.
I started having seizures at 15 (je...
How Exercising Benefits You in the Workplace
Did you know that exercising will benefit you in the workplace? Regular exercise is going to improve your ability to focus and shift your attention. It will keep your brain a little sharper and raise ...
Lull: The Mattress That Turned My Four Hours into Eight
I know from personal experience that finding the mattress that gives you the perfect night’s sleep can be a foreboding task. Before I found the mattress that turned my four hours of sleep into a full ...
The Surprising Science Behind Lull, the Mattress That Will Change the Way You Sleep
There’s nothing better than crawling into bed at night and there’s no place in the world more comfortable than your own bed (especially in those moments just before you fall asleep). Unfortunately, th...
Overcoming My Fear of Failure
Adrenaline was coursing through my veins. I started my Fitbit too soon, I had to stop it. I was nervous. I was anxious. I was excited. One by one, clouds of emotions rolled over me. Here I was standin...
How Meditating Killed Me
I’m sure anyone who has heard of meditation has heard a story about somebody becoming so ungrounded that they lost all health and stability. Supposedly, finding yourself too high up in your chakras ca...
10 Tools to Get Excited About Getting Healthy
How many times have you scrolled through your feed and glanced through comments of followers begging influencers or public figures for the answers to these questions: How did you get your body? What’s...
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle When You’re Always on the Go
Summer is here and the thing that I look forward to the most during summer is taking a much needed vacation. While I love taking time off to rest, unplug and recharge, I know that this means putting i...
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How to Prevent Skin Cancer
More than 2,000 people die of skin cancer in Australia every year. It’s an extremely serious condition that needs to be treated as carefully as possible. Luckily, when detected early, most types of sk...
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3 Things You Can Do at the Gym to Exercise Your Mind
It's important to stay active and healthy, so going to the gym is a logical choice. However, two things happen when we go to the gym: First, we might have trouble occupying our thoughts as we push thr...
Sleep Inertia
We are all familiar with that feeling during the first 15-minutes after waking up in the morning. Our eyes are crusty, our breath stinks, our hair is a mess, and we feel grumpy and sluggish. Waking up...
Float Therapy
I heard a testimonial from a college student who had been on 13 different medications for anxiety, depression, and pain. She dropped out of college because she felt the pressure to thrive and become s...
Gina Bergamini Brings Belly Dance and Fitness to Westchester Women
Trained in modern dance, Gina Bergamini wanted to keep her studies up after completing school. So she began taking dance classes a few nights a week. When one of the classes was cancelled, she decided...
The Magic of Body Massage
A few weeks ago, my fiancé had surprised me with a massage table.
Early this morning, my wake-up call was his warm embrace, followed by a whisper in my ear…“If you get your gorgeous body on the massag...
Living with a Chronic Disease
I have an autoimmune disease called Mastocytosis. It’s one of those rare, hard to diagnose and even harder to diagnose, diseases. Basically, it is caused my body having too many mast cells, which have...
My Bulleted Epilepsy Journey
This is the annoyingly long and drawn out (supposed) 'Reader's Digest' version of a story about an epileptic girl just trying to make sense of a senseless disorder.
I started having seizures at 15 (je...
10 Health Benefits of Ditching Perfume
Before you take a chance on Chanel’s Chance or seek Amazing Grace (the perfume), you might want to rethink your decision to spritz yourself or your clothes. That’s because most perfumes are made from ...
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7 Things You Must Try When You Are Mentally Drained
More and more people today are facing some of the modern age problems and ailments: syndromes of burnout, stress-related symptoms, and mental exhaustion are slowly but surely conquering the world; and...
Let’s Get Physical!
"Get your workout done and you'll feel so much better afterwards!" We've all heard this phrase before, haven't we? International studies and research has shown that this phrase is actually VERY accura...
Stress Is on the Rise!
According to journalist Sharon Jayson, there is a significant increase in young adults struggling with stress. "A scientific analysis of stress over time offers some proof that there's more stress in ...
The Journey Through Heart Failure
When I received a diagnosis of congestive heart failure two years ago, I did not know how to respond except to ask the cardiologist how long I would live. She sort of looked down, and then told me tha...
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Getting to Know Me
Hey Baddies. My name is Antoinette Watkins, I’m a college student, in Miami, Florida. Living with and managing Type One Diabetes, along with figuring out how to navigate into adulth...
Just Breathe
When most people start having headaches, it usually doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's probably just caffeine withdrawal or they need to drink more water. Not in my family. Headaches that can leave ...
5 Better Options than an Energy Drink
Everybody needs a little energy booster once in a while. Life gets exhausting at times. A lot of people pick up an energy drink every day. These drinks are not the best for your health, and they aren'...
The 3 Best Workout Supplements for Building Muscle Mass
Although most people don’t want to truly look like a bodybuilder or gain 100 pounds of muscle, building lean muscle mass is a very common goal for most people who are consistently going to the gym. Al...
List of Products that Help Patients Suffering from Dementia Symptoms
Dementia is a group of symptoms that results in the general loss or decline of cognitive functioning. It is a decline in behavioral abilities. The sufferer’s ability to remember, think, or engage in t...
FACT: You Can Quit the Caffeine! I Did...
I started the new year unconsciously skipping out on my normal cups of tea and coffee. I think it must be something to do with the ever popular motivator "New year, New me"... I’ll admit: I’m not one ...
How to Sleep Better
Chances are you know someone, or are someone yourself, who suffers from insomnia. Prevalence rates vary among research studies, but up to 50 percent of people may have problems with sleep. That can en...
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Does Disability Cover the Costs for Assisted Living?
According to the US Census Bureau, approximately 56.7 million people are living with a disability in our country alone. And many of these people live in assisted living facilities. This type of housin...
Foods to Put Out Your Throat Fire
I’m a lover of spicy and acidic foods, but not acid reflux.
The burning sensation in your throat with an dis-tasting after taste is not pleasant. When the hiccups occur, the feeling of my heart rate i...
How to Fill Nutritional Gaps in the Diet
When it comes to being healthy, what you eat plays an extremely important role. However, as many of us lead a busy lifestyle and don’t always have the time to prepare a healthy meal, providing our bod...
How Diet Affects Appearance
What you put in your stomach breaks out and impacts your outward appearance. Size and skin are the most evident physical variables. People will gain weight if they eat primarily fast food all the time...
Staying Healthy After Retirement
If you have made it to your retirement years, then it is necessary to ensure you have a strong and healthy body. It is very important to focus on your balance, lowering stress, and strengthening your ...
How Essential Oils Will Improve the Longevity of Your Health
Everyone is always complaining about getting older, but maybe it doesn’t have to be such a bad thing—if we start managing the longevity of our health now! If the side effects of “getting old” were les...
When I Grow Up
For the most part I have enjoyed growing older. The older I get, the older "old" is. When I was a teen, 30 seemed old, 40 was decrepit, and 50... well, 50 was on the brink of death. Now that I'm in th...
Improving Your Everyday Life with Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is all about finding the best, most effective method in restoring and maintaining the natural movement of your body. With the advent of holistic healing and treatment, physiotherapy is n...
Workouts for Women
If you are a woman, then you know just how hard it can be to make time for yourself. However, it is necessary to set aside just a little of your time a few days a week to ensure you stay strong and he...
6 Equipment Essentials to Build an At-Home Gym
Having a home gym has always been very cool. The people who had home gyms were always regarded as wealthy, but times have certainly changed, and having your own at-home gym is not that difficult anymo...
526 Teeth Removed from Seven-Year-Old Boy's Mouth
There are millions of people in the world who fear the dentist, but this seven-year-old boy from India needs a reward for what he has gone through! A little boy from India began complaining of jaw pai...
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Coffee has many good uses. There have been studies that have shown coffee plays a role in the prevention of cancer, diabetes, depression, cirrhosis of the liver, and gallstones, and it is also full of...
Reason First: Dr. Sebi's Blind Alley
Medical professionals considered Dr. Sebi a phony and a fake. He allegedly told people that AIDS did not arise from HIV. Allegedly, he cured forms of cancer and became a healer to those yearning to be...
Six Mistakes Made By Rookie Runners and How to Avoid Them
Running is fun! It's as simple as that. It's also incredibly good for you both mentally and physically. However, given that from a very early age we've all been able to "run," we find running easy, bu...
5 Tips for Post Workout Recovery
Getting a workout in always feels good and makes you want to keep going, but it's important to know how to properly recover from those tough workouts in order to stay healthy and keep your body in goo...
HCYNR - Tempo Runs
Last time on the "How to Crush Your Next Race" series, we touched on speed sessions in my previous post. We're going to dial back to speed (just a little bit) and work on tempo runs.
As the name sugge...
The Ultimate Vacation
Traditionally speaking, meditation is a practice used to relax the body and calm the mind. The benefits of meditation through scientific research are numerous. I could get into discussing those benefits, but I want to talk to you about something else related to meditation.
In some esoteric circles or what some would call “Secret Societies,” it is understood through experimentation, ritual, and documentation of over thousands of years that the Universe is mental. Yes, the entire Universe is the m...
Top 3 Benefits of Relaxation and Meditation
It’s Monday and you’re ready to take on the world… until that stereotypical Monday-thing happens. Maybe you spilled coffee on your favorite t-shirt or your car won’t start, or some other event that tr...
Meditation Course—Week 4 of 5
The Purpose
The idea is that our body is always in a certain state of vibration that can vary, altering our state of mind, which has an affect on our mood or state of being. There are many application...
How Iyengar Yoga Transformed My Perspective of Yoga and Life
Yoga is more than a workout and pretzel postures. I started going to "yoga" classes to bring balance to the distance running I was doing and to learn how to properly stretch my tight hips. What I fou...
Lessons from Yoga
At the start of this year, I decided I wanted to try yoga. My reasoning was nothing but shallow. I wanted to improve my flexibility and shed a few kilos, and that was it. What I didn't expect was the ...
How Yoga Benefits You Mentally & Physically
Here are the benefits of Yoga and how it can affect you positively (physically and mentally).