Much like how fitness is an approach to training the body, meditation is an approach to training the mind. And just like with fitness, there are many techniques to meditation, each of which requires different mental skills. Why meditate? To reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. To increase peace, perception, self-concept, and well-being. However, it …
Skating Mom vs Poor-Quality Makeup
My daughter competes and performs a lot. She is only 10 but she started using makeup during those events. I’m sure all skating, cheer-leading, dance, and theater moms can relate. The girls all want to go to stores at the mall and get the cute packages targeted to tweens & teens (lip gloss, eye-shadow, mascara, …
Winter blues got you down?
Do you find the shorter days, cloudy skies, and being cooped-up indoors most of the time gets you down? Season Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression that affects people from fall through spring where one may feel depressed, irritable, lethargic, and find it hard to wake-up, especially on dark mornings. Unfortunately we can't …
DIY: Relaxing Bath Salts
Making your own bath salts couldn't get easier with our simple recipe. Just be sure to buy unscented bath salts to avoid any harmful additives.
Bath Bombs – Good? Bad? Ugly?
What better way to end a long, gruesome day than with a book, a glass of wine, and a scented, fizzy, colorful bath full of carcinogens, hormone disruptors, and fragrance? Wait, what??? Yes, these are just a few of the toxic ingredients hidden in these pretty, sprakly bath bombs. As relaxing and therapeutic as bath …
Pesto Chicken
Check out my recipe for Pesto Chicken Pasta! It was DELISH!!! I have to laugh about this dish because there was a time (actually most of my life) that I did not like pesto. I love all the ingredients of pesto, but for some reason when it all came together, I just didn't like it. …