I love everything about Thanksgiving!! The food is delicious and comforting and the memories are the same! It can be quite a challenge to pull off an incredible menu with beautiful decor and still be able to sit down, relax and enjoy your family. Ultimately, sitting around the table and sharing what you’re grateful is what Thanksgiving is all about, right? Say “Goodbye!” to stress and “Hello!” to this Thanksgiving Meal Planner!...
Frizz can sometimes work in your favor; on the other hand, it can be the enemy. If you’re looking to prevent frizzy hair this season, it all starts with your wash and care routine. To tame and prevent your hair from curling up when it’s faced with humid conditions or moisture in the air, we’re here to help you find the best shampoo for frizzy hair. And while there are many formulas out on the market that promise to tame your frizz, they don’t all promise to save you a few bucks....
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, to learn about them click here. Letters to My Baby – 12 letters with prompts allowing you to document sweet baby memories and your hopes and dreams for your little one. Your Life in Letters – Once-a-year-letters from birth to 18 years. What a sweet gift to give your child on graduation or their wedding day! Baby’s First Year – A simple place to track all your babe’s firsts....
The practice was created by Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax, and has been adapted for many audiences and populations, Maldonado says. Each of the letters in the acronym guide us, helping us to support ourselves in any moment. Saying the name alone—G.R.A.C.E—invites the body and the mind to soften along with the heart. A Guided Meditation for GRACE Find a comfortable position for your body. If you’re seated in a chair, place your feet flat on the floor....
Barry Boyce: The two of you are working together on an initiative to explore, in a retreat with experienced mindfulness practitioners, certain kinds of deeper challenges we all face—and particularly challenges that emerge as we take on positions of responsibility and leadership. Mindfulness is often about stress-reduction and focus, which can become the entryway to a deeper exploration, which is what it seems you’re interested in doing now. Janice Marturano: Yes....
Ouch. Your financial situation? What an awful term. You suddenly tense up and start to feel a rumbling in the pit of your stomach. You don’t really know what to say. She can see the pained expression on your face, so she suggests that you could consult the latest popular financial genius to solve “the problem of your financial situation.” But will that really help with the stress and tension that emerges every time you think about money?...
The Mindful Kitchen Recipe: Roasted Carrots A delicious and easy way to prepare spring carrots is to roast them whole. Caramelized on the outside, tender on the inside, whole roasted carrots feel oddly fancy for something so simple. Toss a bunch with a few tablespoons of olive oil, a generous sprinkling of salt and pepper, and maybe a sprig of thyme or a minced clove of garlic. Throw the carrots on a lined baking sheet in a 425° oven and roast, flipping occasionally, until tender and browned on the outside....
Sometimes bringing up the topic of what we like and don’t like in the bedroom makes us uncomfortable because we don’t want to hurt our partner’s feelings. However, we think this light-hearted activity answering Newlywed Game style questions will open up the doors of communication and keep your relationship full of sparks! Sex Questions for Couples This date night is bound to bring up some fun memories and help you create a few steamy new ones!...
Kindness Rx At Senders Pediatrics in Cleveland, Ohio, knowing how to be kind is considered part of a child’s overall well-being. Often, children leave the doctor’s office with colorful cards detailing ways to practice kindness. Helmed by their parent coach and educator Joan Morgenstern, the Senders Kindness Initiative aims to help kids cultivate social intelligence, happiness, agency, and purpose. Backed by a Parenting Initiative Grant in 2020 from the Greater Good Science Center, Senders launched the Family Kindness Festival where kids display how they practice kindness....
Best Hair Serum for Dry Hair: A Silky Selection 1. Start with clean hair. To use a hair serum for dry hair, you need to start off with a freshly washed head of hair. It helps to apply the serum, and makes sure you don’t weigh down your hair. If you have truly dry hair, wash with a hydrating shampoo and conditioner. The Suave Coconut Milk Infusion Deep Moisture Shampoo and Suave Coconut Milk Infusion Deep Moisture Conditioner will get your hair clean and make it smell like it’s somewhere in the tropics....
The published data support this and I have witnessed it with my own eyes. A recent survey by Medscape included more than 7,500 doctors from around the world, with 5,000 from the US. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the US physicians reported an increase in their sense of burnout as a result of COVID. Let’s unpack what this looks like for providers who are at high risk of burning out, or already coping with it....
From hair brushes to oils, here are the top three products you should have in your styling and hair care kit this season. Read on: Top Products We Need This Season 1. Boar-Bristle Brush While this is a staple year-round, we tend to need this brush much more during the fall season. Harsh and cold winds can cause the worst tangles of them all. Using a boar-bristle brush like the Ibiza Yolles Ceramic Boar Hair Brush to comb through hair for touchups can keep things on the smooth end of the spectrum....
Huge Hair Hits the Runway and We Love It While it would be great if one could achieve this look on any given morning with a few sprays of hairspray and a tease here and there, we know there’s more going on. This look was most likely achieved with a lot of added hair extensions or a wig. Either way, hairspray still plays a major role in the creation of huge hair....
“Mindfulness practices help the bully, victim, and any witnesses involved develop a deeper awareness of themselves, resilience, compassion, and a greater ability to regulate their emotional responses,” Houlihan says in a recent column from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Houlihan, along with Laura Bakosh, are cofounders Inner Explorer, a non-profit organization that offers mindfulness programs for schools. In classrooms that implemented the Inner Explorer’s mindfulness programs, early results show an estimated 50% reduction in reactive behavior—as reported in “Why Do Bullies Bully?...
