Self-care

One week intentional spring health reset

One week intentional spring health reset

Spring brings with it the promise of re-birth and renewal. As the natural world reawakens and blossoms into life around you, it’s a great time to do some internal self-care, brush off your own cobwebs, push out accumulated junk from the winter and get yourself ready for the energy of summer. If you found yourself losing touch with healthy habits over the winter, I’ve put together a list of 5 simple practices for you to incorporate into your daily routine, for one week, to help to give your body and mind the post-winter tune up it needs.

December Health Challenge: Prioritize Sleep

December Health Challenge: Prioritize Sleep

How is your sleep? Are you sleeping enough? Are you sleeping well? Do you have a hard time falling or staying asleep? Do you wake refreshed? If not, maybe this month you try to improve your zzz’s with some of the tips included in this month’s health challenge. After, all sleep is one of the foundations of health. It’s not something any of us can do without!

October Health Challenge: Detox your Cosmetics

October Health Challenge: Detox your Cosmetics

The average adult uses about 9 personal care products a day, and many of them contain toxic chemicals. Our skin is not an impermeable barrier. Many of the chemicals we put on our skin are absorbed into our bodies and can have a whole host of health effects. This month I challenge you to detox your cosmetics. Our monthly challenges are about making small, manageable changes to support our health and wellbeing. Choosing safer, non-toxic cosmetics can have huge impacts in your long term health.

August Health Challenge: Detox your Cleaning Products

August Health Challenge: Detox your Cleaning Products

The air inside our homes is 2-5 times dirtier than the air outside. There are so many factors contributing to this indoor pollution, one of which is toxic cleaning products that are full of harmful chemicals with a whole host of deleterious health effects. This month I challenge you to detox your cleaning supplies. Every small change you make to clean up the environment in which you live can have huge impacts in your long term health. So to start with, let's clean up the cleaners. 

February Health Challenge: Meditate Every Day

February Health Challenge: Meditate Every Day

For the short and sweet month of February, our health challenge will be to meditate every day, in an effort to cultivate more mindfulness in our lives. It's a chilly month across much of the continent, and a great time to turn inward and cultivate a daily meditation practice. 

DISCLAIMER

All material provided on this website is solely for educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose or treat any specific person or condition or take the place of advice from your physician. All supplements, botanicals, and diet and lifestyle changes should be discussed with your primary healthcare provider before incorporating them into your daily life.