How Stress Begets Weight Gain

How are you feeling today, stressed out beyond belief? Many of us are walking around with stress levels we’ve never felt before. Covid 19 fears, illnesses, loss of jobs, the state of our government and oh yea, your job is giving you strife, your air conditioner stopped working, the babysitter can’t make it today and

Great Mindfulness Apps to Keep You Grounded.

As much as many of us want to engage in mindfulness in these extraordinary times, timing, space and opportunity can make it difficult. These mindfulness apps have been developed to assist us in taking a minute to reflect on our wellbeing. This list includes top reviews. All of them have free audio guided meditation sessions

Foundation Training

Several years ago I was asked to write about Foundation Training (FT), an exercise format focused on safely stretching the back muscles while strengthening the core. It was the first I heard of it. It’s been touted as tool for reducing back pain, an affliction that according to Mayo Clinic is one of the most common

Learning How to Mindfully Meditate and Why

Given the state of this country with the pandemic dominated our lives and trying to navigate the unknowns of 2021, it’s not about why you should mindfully meditate, but how. Mindfulness is the ability to be present, fully engaged with whatever we’re doing in the moment and it is a meditation tool (1). Wikipedia defines

Mindful Monday – In The Pursuit of Self-Care

In our focus to be good parents, employees, caretakers and you fill in the blank; we can lose sight of the life balances necessary to maintain our ability to provide those services. Self-care can be an important missing link and is defined as “any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of

Mindful Monday-Dealing With the Stress of Our Times

These are crazy times. The other day I chuckled at a funny meme that at the beginning of this year called the Australian brush fires that burned 46 million acres of land, the defining moment of 2020. The political temperature of this country and the Covid 19 pandemic in particular means very few of us

Mindful Monday Mindfulness to the Rescue

Let’s broach a subject I find difficult to master, mindfulness and meditation. However during these uncertain times, finding a mental space to find refuge sounds like a really good idea. We will focus on mindfulness today and tackle meditation at another time. Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely