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Continue reading →: Why You’re So Tired (And Why a Nap Doesn’t Fix It)Avoid the sugar crash and save your productivity! These four simple steps will help you to power through your day and not feel that 3pm energy slump.
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Continue reading →: Why Olive Oil Is the Easiest Health Upgrade You’re Probably UnderratingSince taking a dive into better nutrition, I’ve been in a full-on love affair with olive oil. At first, Mark and I swapped out our old cooking oils for olive oil for the most scientific reason of all: we’d heard it was “better.” We also knew it was a big…
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Continue reading →: Why calling food “good” or “bad” keeps you stuckSomewhere along the line, we started giving food moral labels. Strawberries? Good. Chocolate cake? Bad. Carrots? Good. Pizza? Bad. Seems simple, right? Except it’s not. When we label food as good or bad, we’re actually keeping ourselves trapped in a cycle of guilt, shame, and restriction. And ironically, that cycle…
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Continue reading →: Why Discipline Felt Impossible—And What Finally ChangedSetting the course of your life is not easy, and it starts with discipline; deciding to do the things now to ensure a better path to life you want.
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Continue reading →: Nutrition Beats MelancholyBeat the blahs by changing your diet! Simple steps to cut out baked goods and refined carbohydrates can change your life.
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Continue reading →: Are you living in survival mode? 5 signs women miss until it’s too lateSome people call it survival mode. Others call it melancholy. Most of us just call it the blahs. It sneaks up on you quietly. One minute you’re going about your day—sweeping up dog hair tumbleweeds, flipping a grilled cheese, starting your fifth load of laundry—and the next, you stop mid-task…
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Continue reading →: From Test Runs to Transformation: Why I’m Stepping Fully Into Wellness CoachingThis past spring, I put out a little experiment to my friends and family: “Want to be my wellness coaching guinea pigs?” I was working toward my wellness coaching certificate and needed practice clients—real people ready for fresh starts, new beginnings, and healthier routines. In exchange for being my test…
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Continue reading →: Carbs are evil: the little white lieLast year I gave up carbs to eat more carbs. To clarify: I subbed out carbs for carbs. WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT I DON’T EAT CARBS ANYMORE BUT I DO STILL EAT CARBS. Stace. Stop. Breathe. Don’t succumb to the carb-troversy. Mark and I said “so long,…
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Continue reading →: Chia pudding 101How many times have you looked at a picture in a recipe book, drooled, bought the entire book just for that one recipe that promised to taste great and give you oodles of nutrients, only to find a flavorless mound of (what exactly is this??) in your mouth? I’m looking…
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Continue reading →: It’s okay to be stressedWait. What? Ya. I was, shall we say, a bit perplexed, too. How many different ways, and for how long, have we heard about stress, and how bad it is and how to manage it and on and on? We hear it because science does show that stress, especially the…
