• Fitness Journey – Why You’re Not Losing Weight

    Fitness Journey – Why You’re Not Losing Weight

    So, you’re on a fitness journey and trying to lose weight. Maybe you started off strong and made a lot of progress, but now you notice the scale is no longer dipping and your body no longer seems to be changing. I feel you! It’s one of the most frustrating parts of a fitness journey…

  • A Quick Word – You Cannot Go Through Life Alone

    A Quick Word – You Cannot Go Through Life Alone

    Life cannot be dealt with alone. It’s very tempting and sometimes too easy to try and go at life on your terms without taking into consideration others who care about you. I’m someone who does this. I’m very stubborn, I don’t ask for help when I need it, I don’t open up about my feelings…

  • Making Friends as an Adult – It’s a Struggle

    Making Friends as an Adult – It’s a Struggle

    Making friends as an adult is extremely hard. Which is kind of funny to think about considering we technically started learning how to build relationships as children. Being in grade school, hanging around other kids, you eventually learn how to make a friend or two. Or maybe we just fell into them due to the…

  • Unhealthy Habits to Leave in 2022

    Unhealthy Habits to Leave in 2022

    As we are settling into the new year, our minds may be thinking about resolutions for 2023. The new year marks a clean slate and endless opportunities. However, don’t get ahead of yourself just yet. A lot of us tend to think mostly of the new or old things we want to accomplish in the…

  • Holiday Blues

    Holiday Blues

    I don’t know about you, but I get extremely stressed and overwhelmed around the holidays. A time that used to be my favorite, doesn’t quite do it for me anymore. Christmas was a feel-good time. A time to enjoy holiday lights, hot chocolate, shopping in a decorated mall playing Christmas music, and cold weather. I…

  • Finding Peace

    Finding Peace

    Peace is something we all should strive for. Peace within ourselves, with conflict and loss. Sometimes we need immediate peace, while other times it’s more of a journey. Many areas of life can cause stress and cause us to become mentally imbalanced. It’s impossible to go through life without difficult situations. But it’s not impossible…

  • Unhealthy Ways to Cope with Overthinking, and what to do Instead

    Unhealthy Ways to Cope with Overthinking, and what to do Instead

    Overthinking is an annoying and time-consuming symptom of mental distress. It’s when you excessively worry about the same scenario or thought to the point of feeling out of control. Some experience the impacts of overthinking more severely than others, but at one point or another we have all experienced this. It’s a normal reaction typically…

  • Choosing to: Be Intentional

    This month’s Choosing to topic is all about being intentional. Being intentional with yourself and others. It’s easy to rope yourself into a daily routine where you run on auto pilot. Only doing things because you feel you have to. Being intentional isn’t always easy. In fact, doing the same tasks day in and day out…

  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder – Let’s Talk about It

    It can take up to 15 years before Body Dysmorphic Disorder is presented to a mental health professional (BDD Foundation, n.d.). Not because the individual doesn’t want to seek professional help, but because they may not realize they have it. Body Dysmorphic Disorder is most likely to pop up in teens and young adults but…

  • Starting a Fitness Journey – What to Know

    Losing weight is hard, even with all the information out there that gives you step by step advice on how to lose weight. Starting a fitness journey was never something I thought I’d need to do. We’re told to love our bodies no matter what we look like. But how are we supposed to do…

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