Health & Wellness

I have been researching a new running coach/personal trainer/magic worker. I have never used one and after listening to a few podcasts, I've decided to give it a go and see how much it will help my running relationship and,...

Three years ago, my daughter and I were in a car accident. A man ran a red light, crashed into me in the driver’s seat and wrapped my baby girl’s side of the car around a telephone pole. In the split-second...

Three years ago, I quit my job. I quit my career. I left the paid "working world." All for a good reason, of course. Three years of European living courtesy of the husband's job was like a dream come...

Megan Kober is not your average dietitian. The bio for her business website, The Nutrition Addiction, states that she is a "vodka-loving dietician with a no BS approach to healthy eating." She also writes about how calories are stupid,...

I’ve been a slave to beauty regimens since my teen years, back when I was trying every product possible to transform my hormone-fueled skin, frizzy hair, and less-than-dazzling-white teeth. Needless to say, the over-the-counter options were never that effective...

Ladies, I have done this pregnancy thing a few times now and while I was never an unhealthy pregnant person per se, this pregnancy has been my healthiest yet. I want to share a few tips and tricks I...

Five years ago, we adopted a little girl from China. The journey has been filled with joys, surprises, and struggles we could have never imagined. When we started the process, we thought our future daughter had a simple special...

I read one time that in an effort to minimize stress and anxiety, you should only have one major life event in a year. Get married, have a baby, change jobs, move anywhere … those things might all happen...

It’s easy, a little too easy, to get bogged down with the day-to-day aspects of life and fall into a rut. Sometimes just getting the kids up, dressed, and off to school seems like a major win; like I’ve...

It was all about the title for our March book club selection, A Stranger in the House, by Shari Lapena. A little intrigue, a little mystery, and some good cover art really sucked me in - I could not...

Cockroaches.  The word is enough to get my anxiety pulsing; to set my heart racing; and to make me break out in a sweat.  I would rather see a snake or a spider or a clown or a Demogorgon. Granted, I...

We all know that having a baby is completely life altering. Those first few months are tough. They are exhausting. You don’t have good days and bad days. You have good minutes and bad minutes. You get a lot...