I remember back in my eighth grade social studies class when we spent an entire week learning how to write a check. Where your name should go, where and how to write the amount, as if none of this was self explanatory. The last and only time I even touched a check was when my grandma sent me ...
I wake up, brush my toes against the rough carpet, and grab my pink fuzzy robe off the hook. I walk to the sink, look at my eyes in the mirror, puffy with sleep, and wash my face with an exfoliating scrub. I go downstairs, and step outside, taking a big gulp of fresh air wet with rain from the ...
When you ask someone what their greatest fear is, the responses usually range from the seemingly silly, like clowns, to the fairly common, like drowning. Some of our fears go even deeper . In 2018, Chapman University asked 1, 190 adults from the United States about their level of fear about ...
Turning 30 can be a very scary prospect in your 20s. As 30 appeared on the horizon, I went from not caring at all about it to a panicked cliché I really thought I was going to avoid. That fear was backed up by the fact I was single, renting and not in my dream job (or even sure what that was). ...
With the prevalence of social media, the internet has blessed us with new meanings for words like tea, shook, salty and woke. Webster’s dictionary even added the word “screen time” in 2019, balancing it out with the word “unplug” of course, also a recent addition. ...
We all get a little sticky, awkward, and cringey about the word “self help.” It conjures up images of cult members thrashing around, screaming like demonic beings on a documentary while they guzzle down Kool-aid or crunchy, natural people that wear loincloths, live off the land and ...
My name is Sarah and I’m a self-helpaholic. I love books that tell me how to become my best self, how to be happier, how to visualize, how to stop taking shit from people, how to be successful and everything in between. While I have no desire to “fix” myself and neither should ...
April is Stress Awareness Month. This month, consider what your typical reactive behavior to stress might be. For most of us, this means we fall into four categories- flight, fight, freeze, or facade. Stress can affect us in all kinds of ways. Check out these two short videos for a bit more ...
Every year we kick-start yet another New Year’s resolutions list in the hopes of finally seeing those health goals through. By February, though, a significant portion of those goals will be forgotten and swept under the rug of constant business, and a rush to achieve everyday things. In fact, ...
While we’re in the early stages of 2019, and the verge of spring, we can safely say that this makes for the perfect time to kick-start your plan. Your plan to focus on rebuilding your health and revitalizing yourself. Thanks to the recent shift in the perception of health, we no longer merely ...
