If you’re ready to improve your health and feel better throughout the day, you might start by working to make positive changes in your diet and exercise habits. While these aspects of health are well known for having a big impact on your daily life, the importance of high-quality sleep often goes unnoticed. To break…
Let’s talk about medication. There’s no denying that it’s worked wonders. Small niggles that would have killed us less than 100 years ago can now be cured by a simple pill. Developments in medication also mean we can fight mental illness, and avoid unwanted pregnancy. If people of the past could see us, they would…
Through volunteering, you can help those in need and make a positive impact on the world. It’s a great way to give back, but a common experience for volunteers is feeling like they received even more than they put in. The Benefits of Volunteering Although the altruistic aspects are reason enough to volunteer, here are…
Living with our parents used to be fine—at least when we were young. As we grow older, most of us just want to move out to get our own place and get some privacy, but as we get even older, we start to think about our parents more often and spending time with them becomes…
The years have a way of taking their toll on our bodies. All that time spent being weighed down by gravity – by the time we reach retirement age, it’s inevitable that we’re going to start to feel the impact. Image Credit: Pexels One of the great cliches about getting older is that you lose…
Mental health is always going to be a taboo subject, and part of the reason for that might be that we don’t really understand it. For instance, you might know someone who has suffered from depression in the past. But do you understand what that means or how they felt? Feeling depression is like a…
Congratulations! You’ve hit the big three-oh and whether you’re wholeheartedly embracing the next stage of your life by hitting the club, or consoling yourself with an entire bar of Hershey’s chocolate thirty really is the best decade of a woman’s life. Why? Well, you’ve probably got your career fairly on track. You may even be…
There is more than one meaning to head. And consequently, there is more than one type of head problems. From feeling stressed out at work to not being able to think clearly anymore via experiencing leakage in your house, heads can have multiple impacts on your life. This is primarily because there are several descriptions…
People tend to think of the mind and the body as two separate things. One is purely physical, the other is ethereal and mysterious. But, in truth, that’s not true. Our minds and our ability to think is intimately tied up in physical stuff – namely the two pounds of gray matter sitting between our…
A lot of people wish they had a better body. Whether you feel that you are too big, too small, or just want to get fitter; it can be hard to find the right types of workout for you. And, even once you find them, sticking to it and obeying your diet plan isn’t easy,…
Being on the receiving end of a breakup that you didn’t want or expect is one of the worst things to have to go through. Whether it’s divorce, a breakdown of a long-term steady relationship, or the cutting off a promising three-month fling that seemed to have the potential for so much more – it…
After more than 60 years of working you have at last earned your retirement. Now what? You’re so used to having something to do and somewhere to be that, frankly, the idea of not having to do anything is equal parts exciting and daunting. How do you keep your mind stimulated without any problems to…