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Grow Your HQ (Happiness Quotient)
by Judy Wilkins-Smith

When I was nine, I had an argument that left me feeling sad and shaky. Feeling like my nine-year-old world was crashing, I walked outside and saw my bicycle propped up against the wall. I hopped onto it, and in a few minutes, I was as happy as a clam. That led to a huge […]

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Is Your “Digital Diet” Balanced?
How to Improve Well-Being with Proper Mental Nutrition
by Alex Fink – Austin, TX

Nutrition Chart

A balanced diet is part of a healthy lifestyle, and so is a balanced information-diet. When it comes to health and well-being, what you put in your head is just as important as what you put in your mouth. Mindful media consumption is more than just limiting your screen time. It’s about understanding the context […]

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Improving Mood Starts with Healing the Gut by Kulreet Chaudhary, MD

Sound Medicine

Have you ever noticed how your state of mind can impact how you feel physically? When you’re happy you feel great and when you’re stressed or emotionally distraught, your stomach gets upset or you feel physically exhausted. Mood is a complex physiological experience. It is the result of the intermingling of neurochemistry, gut health, hormonal […]

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Battling Mom Burnout by Nikki Oden – Palm Beach County, FL

Before I had kids, I was convinced I’d be an awesome stay-at-home mom (SAHM). “How hard could it be?” I asked myself when I got pregnant with my first child. After having spent almost seven years practicing commercial litigation for a highly respected international law firm, dueling it out in court, taking and defending depositions, […]

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Get Your Mind in Shape to Get Your Body in Shape
by Cyndi Dale – Minnesota

Energy Work for the Everyday to Elite Athlete

We don’t tend to think that prepping for swimwear season is a sport, but for those of us eager to dress for the beach instead of a blizzard, it sure is. Most of us emerge from winter with muscles in couch-potato form. Fairweather sports, from volleyball to tennis, and camping to walking, tend to require […]

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Return to Joy
by Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker

Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world, Andrew Harvey, in a dream vision, was given a message that changed his life. A golden banner was unfurled in the sunlit sky above, and on that banner […]

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Look for the Love
by Ann Albers and The Angels – Phoenix, AZ

In a world that feeds you a steady stream of drama, you can be at peace. In a world where the news would make you think things are spiraling down by the moment, you can discern a greater truth – love is everywhere – present, emerging, expanding, and interacting in the most beautiful ways! It […]

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Falling In Love With a Fantasy
by Brenda Shoshanna

Different facial expressions

(To Know Everything About A Person And Still Love Them, Is Love) It’s easy to fall in love with our dreams about who our partner is. In the beginning the dream feels wonderful and the beauty of who our partner is seems to reflect upon us. How wonderful we must be to have someone like […]

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Getting to Know Your Inner Guidance System
by Ellen Meredith

Energy medicine is the practice of communicating with yourself using the language of energy. You are made of energy; your body communicates with itself using energy; and your actions and choices are fueled by energies as well. You are essentially a matrix of swirling, intertwining subtle forces, not the solid “thing” your mind perceives. The […]

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5 Benefits of Raising Kids with Pets
by Kara Venus – New England

Harper and Her Dogs

There are so many benefits to raising fur babies alongside human babies. According to The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “A child who learns to care for an animal, and treat it kindly and patiently, may get invaluable training in learning to treat people the same way”. In addition, seventy percent of U.S. […]

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