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Balance Yourself: High Quality Nutrition-Feed Your Body (Not Your Head!)

Visualize your body as a beautiful sports car with a high performance engine.  What would you put into this beautiful sports car?  Would you put in sub-standard fuel?  No!  Give your high performance, healthy body the fuel that it needs with high quality nutrition.  Feed your body and not your head hunger.  Protein, healthy fats and [...]

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Balance Yourself: Hydrate With Water

Water is the beverage of life.  Water is the perfect liquid to nourish your body and mind.  Water helps transport vital nutrients, regulates body temperature, assists in digestion, keeps joints fluid and healthy, cleans out your body, enhances your metabolism, assists in regulating appetite, keeps skin healthy, clear, and young.  Water is the one thing [...]

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Balance Yourself: Exercise

A well-rounded fitness routine includes strength training, aerobic activity, flexibility, stretching, yoga, or Pilates and making the most of opportunities to move your body (stairs rather than elevator, parking further away).  Critical to your success in living a balanced life is to make exercise a priority in your life and be consistent.  Being fit helps [...]

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Self-Nurture Checklist

Rather than nurture yourself through emotional eating, here’s a list of suggestions.  Create your own list as a work in progress; add and revise as you discover strategies that work for you. Go window shopping Buy yourself a rose or other favorite flower Garden (get your hands dirty!) Buy yourself something special that you can [...]

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Take a Relaxing Dip

For a Soothing Bath Put one-half cup of herbs like rosemary, mint, chamomile, rose petals or lavender into a net bag along with one cup of Epsom salts and dip into the water for a relaxing herbal bath.  It will provide your own refuge from the stress and the perfect get-away that will nurture you [...]

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