Are you a tea drinker? For those of you who know me well, you know that I am a total caffeine-free tea person. I love it! But besides just being a delicious warm beverage to have in the wintertime, tea can also be a much more powerful and mindful experience. I sat down with my friend and colleague, Louise Carruth of Little Candle Tea Company, to have her share a little insight on how tea can do wonders for your day in more ways than you’d expect…
Read MoreSpirituality can seem like a daunting thing to try to cultivate in our lives. Especially when we have grown so accustomed to focusing on everything else in our busy minds and days. Fortunately, becoming more spiritual doesn’t have to be complicated or confusing. That is why I brought on The Stress Less Show holistic health and lifestyle coach, Britta GreenViolet, to share her simple and gradual ways to start becoming more spiritual…
Read MoreA lot of times when I talk to people about stress they mention trying meditation but not quite being able to make it work for them. if you are a newbie to meditation and mindfulness, you might be wondering how sitting down in silence for 25 minutes is going to reduce your stress when your mind just keeps going and going and going. Fortunately, there's so much more to meditation and mindfulness and just sitting down in silence and there are actually simple ways to start incorporating other mindful practices into your life and begin to understand your stress in new ways…
Read MoreA major presentation at work, moving to a new city, planning a wedding, going out on a first date - what do all of these things have in common? They all can stir up everyone’s favorite thing: anxiety! Okay, obviously anxiety isn’t a great feeling. We feel our breathing speed up, our stomach fills with butterflies, jaws clench - not fun! For a lot of us, we feel as if there is nothing we can do about how miserable our anxiety makes us. Luckily, I brought holistic mental health therapist and owner of The Wellness Collective, Danielle Massi, on to The Stress Less Show to help us address our anxiety…
Read MoreWe’re taking a little bit of a different approach to stress in this week’s episode of The Stress Less Show. A lot of us view stress as being public enemy #1 in our lives. I mean, who has time for all the stress headaches, lack of sleep, frustration?? It is no secret that for a lot of us, stress is really negatively affecting our ability to feel healthy and make healthy choices. However, since this month’s theme is physical health, I brought fitness and nutrition coach Nick Deacon on the show to talk about how we can actually start to see stress as a way for us to grow and even improve our bodies and minds…
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