You've got this fitness thing down. You’ve been on this health kick, doing your cardio almost every day, and you’ve lost some weight. You’ve been focusing on eating right (yay!!), doing various cardio and things have been going pretty well. You’re feeling great, have lots of energy and your clothes are fitting really well. You’re keeping up with your kids during yard games, and can even out-muscle them while arm wrestling. This is all spectacular and I am so happy for yo

What else can I possibly say? I know throughout this month, I have given you a lot of information to process. It is important to do what you can, and accept what you cannot. A huge part of wellness is accepting what you do, and being kind to yourself for what you can’t get to; beating yourself up for not being able to incorporate Wellness suggestion #357 in your (or your family’s) day is not accomplishing the goal here. Remember that every little thing you do, every little

As we continue our month-long dive into the different parts of wellness, what little things you can do for you, and for your family, this week I look at spiritual wellness. First, let's look a little at just what Spiritual Wellness is. One does not have to be of a particular faith in order to be spiritually well. On the contrary, one can be very spiritual AND not have a defined religion. Spiritual well-being can be described as a sense of inner peace, as well as the journey

As we continue our month-long dive into the different parts of wellness, what little things you can do for you, and for your family, this week I look at social wellness. What is social wellness? There is no one definitive cookie-cutter answer to what this should look like for every individual. Each person has their own degree of need of socialness, for interaction with others, for connections, as well as for their preferred mode of communications. It is important to know wha

I often think that one if the qualifications for bring a parent should be having a strong stomach. I can’t even count the number of times some sort of body fluid has ended up on some part of my person, ranging from benign (I’d say urine, but everyone has their own preferences/opinions) to the most foul (trust me, you don't want to know). You don’t really get to pick what you are to be dowsed with nor the regularity; suffice it to say, it’ll happen. Take a deep breath, dea

As we get to the end of January and the shine of your New Year's Resolutions begin to tarnish a bit, maybe it is time to think about what you are really seeking with these resolutions. Is it a life-style change? Is it a healthier outlook on life? What about (fill in the blank) would we like to change? Maybe it's a good time to think about what, exactly, is wellness? How can it be defined? What does it look like? And what does wellness look like to you? Having studied this

What, exactly, is wellness? How can it be defined? What does it look like? Having studied this, and attempted to embrace living it' it for a better part of three decades, I still feel as though my understanding of -- and application -- of this concept is ever-morphing. Not because the idea of wellness changes (although, I guess it does, as, depending on your source, it includes 4 to 9 components), but rather what it means to me keeps changing. By definition, the basic concept