8 Natural Tips for a Balanced Menstrual Cycle

Sneaking to the bathroom as we hide our tampons during our menstrual cycle is the perfect depiction of how women avoid talking about their periods. Not to mention how we refuse to seek help to balance our menstrual cycle when our life- in every sense of the word- depends on it! Today we're throwing all of our reservations out the window and talking eight natural tips for balancing your menstrual cycle.

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7 Simple Tools To Reduce Stress

If you’re one of the billions of people experiencing chronic stress in your life, it’s an absolute necessity to your health that you find a way to reduce your stress level. Realistically, there are seasons in our lives when we are not able to dedicate much time to a self-care routine. Fortunately, there are many ways to incorporate mindfulness, or the act of paying attention, into our daily lives in order to feel less stressed. Here are 7 ways that you can reduce stress in your life immediately.

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Full Body Workout: Killer Arms & Banging Glutes

Eleven years ago when I got my first personal training job, all the women I trained were after Madonna’s arms. Not long after, it became Michelle Obama’s arms. I’m not sure who has the arms de jour right now but someone whose arms are just as shapely, I’m sure. At the time I was a little surprised that so many women were wanting to focus on their upper bodies since I thought for sure they would be all about flat stomachs & round butts.

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6 Tips for Healthy Travel

Traveling and remaining healthy is a concept I never understood. I'm the definition of accident prone, and illness-prone if I'm being honest. Why would you take travel health tips from me? Let's just say I've learned a few tricks along the way.

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7 Yoga Poses for Healthy Digestion

The physical poses of yoga are known to help with many ailments. There are asanas for a sore back or tight hamstrings.  Asanas are the place in which a practitioner sits and the posture in which he or she sits. There are poses to help women alleviate pains while menstruating and even postures that can help you fall asleep at night. But did you know that yoga is also great for digestion?

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Womb Health: 5 Tips To Boost Your Fertility

Right up to the point where you’re ready to start trying for a baby, you’re taught how NOT to get pregnant but your fertility or womb health are never a topic for discussion. You have the fear of God put into you that it only takes one time to become pregnant and it can happen by hugging a man for too long! So you’ve made it to your late 20’s kid free or maybe into your 30’s and all of a sudden, those people who told you not to get pregnant, are now demanding the intimate knowledge of when you’re going to have a baby – remember your clock is ticking.

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14 Morning & Night Routines: My secret to productive days & restful nights

I was sold on the notion that creating a morning and night time routine was the key to living the energized, joyful and productive life I dreamed about. If a morning ritual would allow me to establish a level of productivity that would extend to the rest of my day, a nighttime ritual would help me disconnect from the world allowing me to fall into a restful slumber.

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