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The Value of Walking for Your Mind, Mood, and Body

Today’s blog is a guest post from Joyce Shulman. I shared a book review of her new book Walk Your Way to Better last week. Today she’s sharing about the value of walking just for my readers! Walking has been part of my life since childhood. I remember walking home from middle school, long walks on the beach the summer of my junior year of college, and the daily walk to my office as a young lawyer in New York City. But there is one afternoon when I was sixteen that has remained etched in my memory. I came home

June 21, 2020

Book Review: Walk Your Way to Better

If you could make one simple change to create better mental and physical health for yourself, wouldn’t that be something you would try? With all of the nutrition, health, and fitness advice we see constantly, there is one thing that can be so beneficial that is also pretty simple to implement: walking. Walking is an amazing way to add movement to your life. It may seem simple, but walking has many benefits: Building strength as we use muscles Building endurance in muscles (and our lungs when we walk faster) Improving our immune system as the movement stimulates the flow of

June 13, 2020

5 Ways To Be More Mindful Every Day

Often when we think of mindfulness, we think of meditating. But being mindful extends to much more than meditating. Mindfulness involves being in the present in many aspects of our life. It is quite easy to be caught up in worrying about the future or over-analyzing the past. Especially in times of uncertainty, we can spend way too much time thinking about the future. And in that, we lose our time in the present. While I’m not saying that you should never think of the future. There is a difference between planning for and being mindful of the future vs.

May 21, 2020

Should You Ditch Multitasking?

I was a long time, hardcore multi-tasker. I would be working on a project on my computer while I made dinner and took pics/video of the cooking process to share on social media. All while holding intermittent conversations with family members. Did I mention that just about anytime I tried to do Instagram stories of my cooking that I ended up burning something? But who cares – I was being super efficient and getting so much done! But truth is, I wasn’t. I wasn’t doing my best work. I wasn’t giving my projects my full focus. I was leaving out

May 13, 2020

Project 333 Book Review + Create a Capsule Wardrobe

I know personally that simplifying my life has lead to some amazing changes in how my home functions and feels. The physical aspect of this change has been life changing as it makes cleaning easier, but the mental aspect has been even better. When I started simplifying & decluttering, I knew that I wanted to get stuff out so that things could look nicer and be easier to maintain. But I underestimated the mental impact it would have. I found that as my home simplified, my brain was more relaxed. It was then that I truly realized how much visual

May 7, 2020

4 Ways Stress Affects Your Body + How To Combat It

Chances are pretty good that, unless you are living disconnected in the wilderness, you have a bit of stress in your life right now. You are definitely not alone. There are so many people right now experiencing job loss or layoffs, childcare issues, financial strain, and educating their kids from home. This on top of the normal things in life like relationships, parenting, keeping the house clean (which is an extra challenge with more people home all the time), etc. If you are feeling stressed, I’m not surprised. And while we might realize we are stressed, ignoring it and moving

April 28, 2020

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