Seasonal Allergies The arrival of warm weather is a blessing for most. For others, the seasons like spring and fall mean something much worse: seasonal allergies. The sneezing, itchy eyes, headaches, and runny noses can ruin a bright, sunny day, forcing sufferers inside for the season. This condition can severely interfere with a person’s daily…
Stress is something that affects us all, and knowing specific skills to prevent chronic stress is a start. Chronic stress is long-term stress that goes unimpeded over a long period of time. The fear, flight or fight response is on for an extended time and adrenaline is pumping constantly. This places fatigue on the kidneys…
Do you schedule down time for relaxation in your life? No? Then something seriously needs to change. If you view relaxation as a waste of productivity hours, you have no idea what you’re missing. Not only should relaxation be mandatory, but regularly scheduling breaks for yourself will only improve productivity over the long haul,…
Essential Oils for Stress Relief We spend most of the day stressing over things that we cannot control. This blog will introduce you to ways in which essential oils can be used for stress relief. We cannot change our work pressures, family obligations, a fast paced and hectic life, technology overload and social commitments. But…
The Catastrophic Consequences of Stuffing Your Emotions In the case of severe injury, the body can go into shock. Going into shock blocks the sensations of pain and numbs the consciousness so the body can recover. Too often this is what we do to deal with our painful emotional state. And doing so, can…
4 Steps to Cultivating Your Own Wellness For as long as you can remember, you’ve probably been told time and again how to be happy. Our parents, the media, and our government all want us to conform to what they think is the key to our happiness. But how you become happy without cultivating your…
Essential Oils for Insomnia Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep for a long period of time. It’s a condition that affects almost every single person at one point or another during their lifetime. Today, we want to discuss some of the benefits of essential oils and how they can be used…
10 Ways to Improve Self-Care We all do it. We put our needs on a back burner to take care of work, family, or friends first. It’s in our DNA, but doing it repeatedly is suffocating and will slowly suck the life out of you. Implementing some form of self-care is imperative to our…
Women’s Wellness – Finding “ME” Time Most women are pre-programmed to take care of everybody else before themselves. This is why it is important that part of women’s wellness is finding “me” time? If they are not able to sustain their health, how can they be effective. Taking time off to do something you…
5 Effective & Healthy Ways to Deal with Loneliness Being alone and feeling lonely are two very different things. You can be sitting with a group of friends or standing in a room of full of people and still feel extremely lonely and isolated. It may be a debilitating emotional state, but the dull…
Stress has a negative impact on a person’s ability to remember things. Retrieving things that have been learned and encoding memory are the major impacts of stress on the body. Under times of increased stress, the body secretes epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol from the adrenal glands. These act on the neurotransmitters of the brain…
We hear lots about male sex drive. They either want a lot of sex, or they need Viagra® or some other type of “enhancer” to start things up. And it’s no secret that as men get a bit older, they may need to use some sort of supplement to help things along. Women often…