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Food + Nutrition
Emotional Eating Disorder: Am I Eating My Feelings?
What is emotional eating disorder?: any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits (such as anorexia nervosa). Perhaps I should begin by admitting that this piece is way behind the deadline. I committed to…
Culinary Arts Therapy: Use Cooking As A Form Of Therapy
Cooking … some love it, some dread it. Some can seemingly whip up a three-course meal with their eyes closed; others claim they don’t know how to boil water. Whatever your experience with cooking, those who do cook know that…
How To Have A Healthy Relationship With Food?
I was recently enjoying a casual scroll through Instagram after a hiatus and noticed an overwhelming number of influencers persuading women to take appetite suppressants and partake in the latest fad diets. I couldn’t help but scoff at the seeming…
Physical Health
How Mental Health And Physical Health Are Connected
Mental health and emotional wellness are not only impacted by “invisible” factors, such as stress, depression, and anxiety. Your physical health may have more serious implications for your mental health and emotional wellness than we would typically think. Finding The…
Benefits Of Yoga For Women: How Does Yoga Help You?
The benefits of yoga for women of color are many, but they are not usually maximized. A number of studies have identified how yoga, breathing, and meditation help with a variety of afflictions. Different forms of yoga have helped people…
Period Mood Swings: Brace For A Emotional Rollercoaster
I can recall countless experiences filled with pure tension and anxiety that seemingly appeared out of nowhere, and thinking, “my period must be on the way”. As a person who has experienced an intense menstrual cycle since the tender age…
How To Sleep Better: I Solve My Problems By Going To Bed
Stressed? Go to bed. Broke? Go to bed. Can’t focus? Go to bed. Having one of those really horrible days where all you want to do is just go to sleep? Yeah…you should probably just go to bed. Disclaimer: I…
Spiritual Wellness
How To Take Care Of Yourself: Sustainable Female Rituals
Growing up, I associated rituals almost exclusively with religion. Rituals were performed during festivals, or to commemorate auspicious personal occasions like a housewarming or buying a new car, and to mark rites of passage like coming of age, getting married,…
Death: We Need To Talk About Mortality
The Elephant In The Room That Gets Larger With Avoidance Society treats death as something morbid and unsightly, a subject that is typically associated with plaguing only the bones of the elderly, the ill, and the feeble. No one talks…
Spirituality For Beginners: Healing The Mind And Body
What do you think of when you hear “Spirituality For Beginners”? If you were raised religious, particularly under Christianity, you may mistrust the word spiritual. Taking a step back from your beliefs for a moment, consider the word and open…
Is The Law Of Attraction Real?: Manifestation Techniques
I am sure that many of you, if not all, have heard the saying “life and death is in the power of the tongue.” Just as how uttering certain things into the universe may alter life as you know it,…
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