Riding the Wellness Carousel

Does your Diet Plan feel more like a Merry-go-round ride than a wellness plan? As a child, the Merry-Go-Round, or Carousel as they called it, was a favorite ride at the amusement park. Thru high school and college I worked summers at an amusement park to help pay for...

Self Time Spring Training

Parenthood has many wonderful and beneficial attributes, but allowing for self time for rejuvenation is not one. If your family time was anything like mine, with the coming of spring came, swimming championship weekends for one child and the beginning of a new season...

Spring Training Kickstart

Some people feel like the start of their year, begins in September, others focus on New Years, I like to emerge renewed in the Spring. It must have started when the snow retreated and I could once again head in the woods behind my house and explore, build and run the...

Immunity Training

Practical Ways to Teach Your Children to Support their Immune System If your house was like mine, with three small children in elementary school at one time, you can understand the need to get them to assist you in avoiding getting sick and missing important school...

Health and Wellness Trends for 2019

I always enjoy reading what the “Experts” Predict in Health & Wellness.   Although we are already into March, I thought it would be interesting to see what the “experts” predicted would be the trends in field of health & wellness....

Benefits of Spinach

For me it is always spinach season! As you many know spinach is one of those vegetables you either love or likely pass when offered. And that mostly likely is based on how your parents presented it to you as a child. For me, that was a lump of warm, limp, green mush,...