Healthy Living Adventures

Stress is the tension between something you should do and something you want to do. You’ve decided to do something new. Perhaps it was starting a new job, changing your summer plans accommodate the new family schedule, or something similar and it feels overwhelming and hard.  In these instances, embracing change makes life sweeter.  If

Being fathered. This month’s theme is Embracing change makes life Sweeter.   I am going to ask you to change your idea of what fathering means.  We spend so much time talking about “being mothered”, but do we spend time taking about “being fathered”? Fathering is important for our healing process.  The masculine energy is

Embracing change June is a time of beginning and endings that mostly revolve around or children and their schooling decision.  It is a reflection of life. But it can also bring changes for adults as our children’s changes force us look at our evolving lives too. Embracing change makes life sweeter.  Have you ever heard

Did you know some of the happiest people in the world right here in the USA? For the last installment of this month’s theme, what can we learn about happiness to create a sweet life, I tell you this… yes, it’s true! Some of the happiness people are, in fact, right here in the U.S.A..

What are you doing in your life to create happiness? This month’s theme is what can we learn about happiness to create a sweet life!  So I ask you, what are you currently doing in your life to create happiness? As I continue to down this path to uncover what Dan Buettner’s has discovered as

The happier, the healthier! A few years ago, I wrote a series of articles about Dan Buettner’s research on happiness. After recently reading another one of his articles, I want to dust off some of his important themes about happiness and health.  They are completely combined. It’s simple–the mind and body are one collective health

Did you know that it takes work to be happy? If you have been following my blogs for many years, you know that I enjoy reading the research of Dan Buettner, the author of Blue Zones and Thrive  He is a scientist focused on the areas of the world that have the oldest living people

Spring into Wellness: The Power of Detoxification for Better Health As the days grow longer and springtime approaches, many people begin to consider detoxing. Whether you’re participating in a community Lenten process, preparing for Easter, or feeling the pressure of getting summer-ready, detoxing often comes to mind. You may have heard of colonics or other

Did you know that your body completely renews itself every 7 years? Our bodies are dynamic entities that are always changing, adapting, and renewing themselves. This is why we can get a cut or bruise and then a short time later it has healed.  The same thing happens on the inside of our bodies. This

Taking a fresh approach. I was recently taking a walk around my neighborhood, when I stopped dead in my tracks after spotting a cluster of small lavender and canary yellow colored, fragile flowers popping out of the ground among the gravel and grass.  The flower is called a crocus and it is one of the