Blog — mentalhealth

Life can be pretty chaotic sometimes. While a nutrient rich, whole foods diet and exercise regime is a great way to keep yourself healthy and happy, sometimes it's not enough. Stress can play a major role on your overall progress, especially your physical and mental health. Certain hormones that excrete during stress, like Acetylcholine and Cortisol, can hinder your weight loss journey or muscle building progress. This results in poor recovery, slower metabolism, and chronic health concerns over time. You can become frustrated with all the hard work you're doing, which in turn causes more stress and the cycle continues. Trust me,...

Whats the best part of your morning? Do you enjoy mornings? Morning routines look vastly different for everyone. I think we should all make an effort to find small ways to enjoy the start of our day, no matter how sleepy we may be. When your body is waking up, its still in its very important stages of its sleep-wake cycle. Which means its still regulating hormones, mood and energy production for the rest of your day to come. My morning routine consists of things I love in order to be the most productive for not only that time of day,...

Are you building a thriving business, or pursuing your passion by working long hours and staying late at the office?  Whether this passion of yours has taken you months or years to build, it may be time to take a look at the toll it may also be taking on your mental and physical health. I think self care is key to living our best lives as well as evolving to be our best self.  In fact, it may be the reason one is able to continue to thrive while working on your own business, or as an employee working...

 Flights are booked....accommodation booked... Bikinis packed.  Wait.... bikini? I think we all may have some moments of panic when vacation time rolls around and we realize it’s time to get ourselves into that bathing suit. This is where we can really stress ourselves out with potently damaging crash diets or extreme exercise routines leading up to departure time.  We all want to look and feel our best while on vacation.  To me, feeling our best, is the most important.  I have discovered through my own experiences, when we feel good, everything else falls into place naturally with the energy we...

About 5 months ago, I lost a love that I thought was forever. I lost a dog that I grew to love and I lost the place that I called home.  Emotionally, continuing to live in a place that once filled me with love was too difficult.  With that said, I realized more than any of those things that had been lost, I had mostly lost myself.  I lost my passion for myself because I gave it to someone else. I was heartbroken.  Heart break sucks, lets face it.  Most of the articles I’ve read tell us, it will just...