Sometimes feeling happier and more at ease can be as simple as switching your playlist. If you tend to listen to upbeat music, these playlist options are a great alternative for times when you want to take a break and relax. It can be difficult to disconnect from the work day, but taking 5 minutes to close your eyes and breath can actually allow you to refocus. Check out these
Have you heard of the “5 Senses Exercise”? It’s a simple yet incredibly effective technique that many therapists recommend for anxious moments. Engaging all of our senses at a single moment has a way of diverting our attention from whatever may be distressing us. It’s grounding and can help to bring you back to homeostasis (or at least a normal level of nervces!). Whether it’s a job interview, date, or
I know what you’re thinking: turning my room into a “sanctuary” sounds costly. Decorations? In this economy? I don’t think so. However, turning your space into a calm, inviting getaway can be done with a few inexpensive tweaks. If you’ve found yourself looking at a room in your house or apartment and thinking “this doesn’t feel like me”, this article is for you. Sometimes we don’t even notice we’ve been
If there’s one thing that’s true about the wellness community, it’s that there are seemingly endless options to improve your life and health. That’s what makes wellness so fun and enticing – there’s always something new around the corner to try! Wellness trends can often be ahead of the curve in terms of mainstream acceptance, which is both exciting and slightly dangerous. It can be difficult to navigate the waters
It’s no secret that there’s a lot happening in the world right now and that we’ve collectively been through a lot in the past few years. Life can be hard enough without the weight of global tragedies, conflicts, and politics looming overhead. When tumultuous and divisive events are the backdrop to your everyday life, it can make your own personal struggles that much more exhausting. Cue the urge to pull
Summer is here, and with the much needed warm weather comes something that many women dread: bathing suit season. As women we have been inundated with messaging, whether that be through social media, magazines, or our own family and friends, that perpetuates the idea that we must get our bodies ‘bikini ready’. That there is only one standard for a bikini body, and it’s a flat stomach and cellulite free
Sometimes we don’t want to think when we watch TV. Over the past couple of years we’ve used it as an escape from the unbelievable circumstances happening in the world and in our own lives. However, TV can also be a useful teaching tool, and a way to examine our problems in a safe, creative way. TV holds up a mirror to our culture whether we like it or not,
The global beauty industry is a force to be reckoned with – just last year, it was worth $511B, and is only trending upwards (commonthreadco.com). As women, we’ve never had so many options, and it can be an overwhelming process to choose which brands you’d like to throw down your hard earned cash for. Especially now that many of us want the brands that we support to stand for something,
Ready for a book that’ll make you think? Look no further! With the influx of self-help gurus and thought leaders creating followings on social media, it can be difficult to discern who to trust, and who has the research to back up their ideas. All of the authors listed are professionals who research and teach for a living, and are super-stars in their respective fields. If you’ve exhausted Malcolm Gladwell’s
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