Posts in HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Best Foods to Optimize Hormone Balance in Pre, Peri, and Post-Menopause

Balancing hormones can be a tricky task, especially for those assigned female at birth who experience monthly hormonal cycles that impact their mood, thoughts, and physical well-being. In this article, we'll explore how to use food to balance hormones and optimize our health during the different phases of the hormonal cycle, providing tips and insight into how to live a more balanced life…

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Our Kids Deserve Better Sex Education Than We Got

Most of us who hit puberty in America in the 1990s and early 2000s never got a real sex talk. If we did, it was threatening and scary, focusing on purity and infections. We were told not to have sex because it could result in pregnancy. We were not taught about sexuality as a crucial part of being human or about how to navigate sexual relationships, including consent and how to control if/when we got pregnant…

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How to Detox from Common Toxins (& Why it’s Important!)

Are you experiencing bloating, weight loss resistance, and anxiety? It may be time to detox your body. Almost every summer and around the holidays, when I’m traveling a lot and eating more treats than usual, I notice my muscles are achy, and my brain is foggy. These signs are always reasonable indications that it’s time to detox from common toxins that surround us every day…

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Essential Gifts for the Essential Workers In Your Life

Anyone who provides critical services to the public has a tough job. The hours are long and the work, grueling. The last few years, the pandemic has required essential workers to risk their mental and physical health to care for us in extreme circumstances, and they are stretched beyond their limits. We’ve interviewed some essential workers in education and healthcare to get a peek at their Santa’s wish lists this year…

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Gut Health 101 with Holistic Nutritionist Elissa Goodman

As a holistic nutritionist, it’s my passion to help others embrace a healthy lifestyle that allows them to live wholly. This is in part because I know what it’s like to live life feeling, well, less than your best. Although today I am the happiest and healthiest I have ever been, it took years of nourishment, love, and some hard work to get here….

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Overwhelmed By Motherhood and Marriage? It’s Not Because You’re Doing It Wrong

It has been well-documented that COVID has only increased the weight women in families carry. On author and activist Glennon Doyle’s popular podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things,” she and her cohost and sister, Amanda Doyle, recently discussed women’s Overwhelm. They describe having a ticker of things to do, to worry about, to fix, to anticipate and oversee, always running through their heads, and how carrying the burden of their family members and colleagues’ comfort, safety, health, and success on their backs is flattening them…

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The Weight and Cost of Heavy Breasts: A Starter Guide to Breast Reduction Surgery

Large, heavy breasts negatively impact women’s health and lives. Excessive breast tissue, or macromastia, can cause back, neck, and shoulder pain, hand, and arm numbness from impact on nerves, abrasions or indentations on the shoulders from bra straps, and skin infections under the breasts, among other problems….

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