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Nine Free Things to Bust Stress and Boost Mood
Stress is a killer. Not only does it put you on edge, it actually damages your physical health. Stress causes inflammation in the body, which is implicated in a whole host of medical conditions no one wants, from heart disease and stroke to cancer and Alzheimer’s. Sometimes the things that feel like they ease stress […]
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The Midlife Makeover
I’m doing it. I’ve had some grand ideas about what to do with my life since leaving my full-time job last year. In a way, the past 12 months of sporadic freelancing and big-dreaming has all been part of my midlife makeover, but I am ready to approach things more thoughtfully. I am setting some […]
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Ten Minutes to Fight Arm Flab
For many of us, the challenge with exercise isn’t knowing what to do, but actually motivating ourselves to do it. I’m trying to add weight training to my regimen, and I bookmarked a bunch of 10-minute online workouts that I intended to incorporate daily. Shockingly (not shockingly) I haven’t actually been doing the workouts. All […]
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Essential Self-Care, Vol. 1: The Hard Stuff
Before we get into all the little things we can do to treat ourselves well each day, we’ve got to get into the three biggies: rest, exercise and sustenance. These elements of self-care are so essential, all the self-help in the world can’t help if we’re not attending to these critical components. Entire books have […]
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