mom • parenting • lifestyle • health-wellness
Let’s go back in time a moment, shall we?
Growing Up With Epilepsy
I’m 14. One day I’m watching an after-school special with my classmates about a kid with Epilepsy. He has a seizure during a basketball game. Isn’t that funny? We’re laughing. We don’t understand. We all join in on the laughter.
It’s a month later and now I’m having a seizure.
A week after that, I’m on medication that makes me fall asleep in the middle of …
New Years Resolutions: How To Avoid Triggers in Your Lifeme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
Have you ever eaten a cookie or a chocolate cupcake… when you weren’t hungry just because you had a bad day? Or maybe it’s that glass of wine (or two) in the midst of a stressful afternoon? Before long we’ve packed on a few extra pounds and don’t even realize
9 Tips to Parenting a Child With Mental Illnessme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
My son was diagnosed with paranoid Schizophrenia when he was 17 years old.
I didn’t have any friends who were dealing with similar parenting issues and I, personally, knew almost nothing about Schizophrenia or any other mental illness kids face…. When I tried to surface discussions about it, friends
Me Time: 8 Ways to Get Social With Other Womenrelationships • me • time management • lifestyle
Allowing yourself to develop time for a social life is an area you may or may not place a priority. In the realm of coaching, this area finds a slot in the work/play dimension of the Wellness Inventory Wheel. For sure, you embrace the work aspect and make this a…
Me Time: How To Develop Positive Self-Care Habitsme • time management • lifestyle • health-wellness
Time for the whole me? The better question to ask yourself is: how do I NOT have time for the whole me?Wellness is a time investment. I know what you are thinking! “But I have four children, a husband, a job, a business, social obligations, and a house to clean.…
A while back I heard that spinach was high in fiber. “Great!” I thought. I have the fiber area covered. 25-35 grams can’t be that hard to squeeze in, right? I have been known to put down an entire Costco… bag of spinach by myself in less than 2 weeks.
The holiday season is among us. Some of us are knee deep in snow, others are up to our eye balls in gift wrapping, while others are buried in the stress of planning holiday meals, baking cookies and trying to figure out how to avoid those extra pounds that tend…
Health and the Holidays: Five Tips for Not Getting Sick This SeasonI love the holidays. I love the decor, the family get togethers and of course, the festive food. Although every year I must remind myself of one thing—do not ”over” anything. By this I mean:
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I have a tendency to get a little excited
We are excited to announce our guest tweet for Tuesday, December 30… you know her on twitter as @drmommy!
Dr. Mommy is a Doctor of Chiropractic, freelance writer, blogger, speaker, devoted wife, and home school mom to five children. Being a mom to a 17, 15, 12, 8 and …
Offer to babysit a friend's child while they get some "me" time.
Date: Wed., February 29
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: 365 Manners Kids Should Know
