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Mindfulness and Meditation for Beginners
If you’re curious about how to begin a mindfulness and meditation practice, you’re in the right place. Let’s explore some practical, friendly ways to bring mindfulness into your routine, with a few personal stories sprinkled in to keep things real.


Your Most Important Relationship: How to Practice Self-Love
Learn how to strengthen your relationship with yourself, and explore how self-love, acceptance, and positivity can improve your emotional well-being


Life is not black or white, it’s the full spectrum of color in between
This black-and-white thinking is actually a symptom of depression. It’s also a symptom of anxiety as well as other mental illnesses.


Lavender Essential Oil: The Soothing Scent of Tranquility
Introducing lavender essential oil unveils a serene and transformative experience, inviting harmony within. The gentle and soothing fragrance of lavender evokes tranquility, while its versatile properties, including relaxation and tension reduction, offer a sense of protection and clarity to those navigating life's boundaries.


Why Mental Health Awareness Matters
Mental health is something we all have, yet it often feels like a hidden part of our well-being. But over the years, I’ve learned mental health is about thriving, growing, and living fully. That’s why mental health awareness is so important. It opens doors to understanding, compassion, and practical support that can transform lives.


What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese system of healing using the human energy field. The word Reiki literally means universal energy. Reiki has been studied more extensively now and is used formally and informally in hospitals across the United States.


Sandalwood Essential Oil: An Ancient Path to Inner Harmony
Welcoming sandalwood essential oil is like beginning an ancient journey towards self-discovery and inner peace. The luxurious and exotic scent of sandalwood takes us to a sacred place where calmness and equilibrium are found. Its warm, earthy fragrance calms the senses, centers the mind, and elevates the spirit.


Rose Essential Oil: A Fragrant Elixir for Health, Home, and Happiness
The scent of Rose essential oil is a transformative experience that harmonizes our inner elements. Throughout history, the delicate and silky aroma of this flower has captured the essence of love at its peak. Its harmonious blend of cooling and tension-relieving qualities offers protection and insight for those navigating life's challenges.


Mindfulness Exercise: Mindful Scent
Mindful smelling involves utilizing our sense of smell to enhance awareness of our current moment and surroundings.
Focusing on the sense of smell improves mindfulness by promoting awareness of environmental scents and their effects on the mind and body.


15 affirmations for good enough mothering
If used daily and consistently, over at least 30 days, affirmations can retrain your brain to positive mind-set


3 nutritious smoothies for pregnancy and the fourth trimester
Self-care! To supplement your nutrition during pregnancy and in the fourth trimester, making smoothies is a great healthy habit.


Postpartum Depression: Knowing the Signs and Getting Help
It is normal to have feelings of anxiety, stress and depression immediately following the birth are not uncommon—these feelings are often re


The use of aromatherapy to reduce agitation in dementia
There's a lot of curiosity about whether aromatherapy might help dementia patients with their agitated behaviors.


5 Ways Mindful Hiking Can Help You
If you've ever hiked to both savor nature and get some exercise, you've probably practiced mindful hiking!


DBT STOP & TIP Skills: Life is worth living even if there is pain
DBT STOP and TIP Skills are essential for mindfulness, mental health and managing your emotions,


Self Care – 5 Easy Meditations
You can practice Mindfulness Everyday by weaving relaxation practices in throughout your day


Mindfulness doesn't mean you feel calm all the time
Learning to be mindful on a daily basis doesn't mean that you are perfectly calm all the time. That's not even the goal. It's not how we...


PTSD: 2 No, it’s not all in your head: The Neuroplatform of Emotion
Advances in neurobiology – knowing how our brains and nervous systems work – help us understand how PTSD symptoms persist and how they heal


Expressive Art & Wise Mind
Originally posted March 23, 2020. About 98% of our mental activity…the reasons why we do things…is unconscious (Bargh, 2017). ...


Research: Small Everyday Pleasures Make a Big Difference
Updated June, 2023 How effective are everyday stress management techniques in helping keep a person healthy? How strongly do everyday...
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