Practicing healthy habits does not have to be boring. Habits Can Be Boring Let’s face it, habits, especially the ones you’ve been practicing for a while, can be boring. You force yourself to wake up every day and do your morning routine, or you force yourself to plan meals for the week. Every day, you […]
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Why willpower doesn’t work You start the year with great intentions and motivations to finally eat healthy, to finally stop scrolling on social media so often, to finally stop drinking so much alcohol, but you just can’t stay motivated. You get angry with yourself, thinking, “I should have more willpower than this!”. It’s so frustrating!
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photo by Patrick Malleret on Unsplash Yoga is not just for exercise Yoga was significantly better at reducing anxiety, researchers in an NYU Langone 2020 study found, than stress management techniques, such as lessons about effects of stress, and reducing alcohol. Several years ago, I made it a goal to exercise more. I had gained
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How rituals can improve your intentions surrounding food When my kids were a little younger, we had to go to sports practices, games, dance lessons, or music lessons a few times a week. I wasn’t very intentional about what we ate on those nights. Actually, I was doing good to get us through a drive-through
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Have you been having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? The CDC (Centers For Disease Control) reports that 35.2% of adults in the U.S. get less than 7 hours of sleep per night. Not only that, but a Sleep Foundation poll found that almost half of all Americans report feeling sleepy during
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I bought the book, 21 Rituals to Ignite Your Intuition, by Theresa Cheung, recently. In the book, Cheung talks about how rituals can make you feel more present, and improve your intuition. I loved the idea of rituals, because habits can be so monotonous. Rituals feel more special. You may not be able to have
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