Does this sound familiar? The alarm clock goes off as the sun is just beginning to peek through your curtains. You don’t groan at the sounds of morning like you used to—you’re feeling good about your morning routine and you’re excited to start the day. You get dressed, head to your kitchen, and start your…
Squats and lunges are popular lower-body exercises for a reason: They target all the right muscles, they’re easy to modify and adjust, and just a few rounds are enough to get your legs burning. So, why not combine them into one powerhouse move? Meet squat pivot split squats—here’s how to do them, as demonstrated by…
January 21, 2022 — 11:04 AM A little bit of bloat here and there is common—but being used to it and welcoming it are two totally different things. So when someone offers up strategies for minimizing bloat, we’re taking notes. Which is exactly what happened during our new video series, Expert Insights. In the series,…
The most popular blog post I’ve published was one called “‘I Hate My Mother.’” A half million people, searching for that phrase, read it. And what percentage of the whole did that half million represent? How many millions of people hate one of their parents, or one of their siblings, or someone else in their orbit? In polite conversation, including internal polite…
I’ve been through a lot of illness in my life. When I was 19, I had Hodgkin’s disease. A few years later, I had rheumatic fever. I had breast cancer two years ago and had a double mastectomy. After the chemotherapy, my neck hurt so much, I couldn’t hold my head up. I’m 56 and…
With the pressure we are all under, social distancing and staying home and watching our economy slow down, there is a resurge of PTSD in homes around the country. My very dear friend is a horse whisperer, who has helped many children with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) heal. One day while having lunch together,…
Many of us first transitioned to remote work in 2020, and two years later, some workplaces have gone back to the office, some are still remote, and some have adopted a hybrid approach. There are so many benefits to flexible work, but one of the challenges can be forging meaningful connections with co-workers when communicating…
Happiness is a measure of success: People are not just giving up jobs in the Great Resignation, they are redefining parameters of success and what it means to them. We look for success because we think it will make us happy. Know that happiness is a state of mind, not a destination. A happy state…
The movement many now refer to as “The Great Resignation” has continued with strong momentum in 2021, hitting mid-career professionals most heavily, as well as those in tech and healthcare fields. According to the December 8th, 2021 data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings increased to 11.0 million on the last business day of October, and hires…
In the realm of modern leadership practices and principles it has become very en vogue to claim that one’s role as a leader is to “hire great people and get out of the way”. Certainly hiring great people and not actively creating barriers for them are easy to agree with, however there is in fact…
