Sober Curiosity & How Finding Life Without Alcohol Can Lay New Roots by Abby Thrasher, MS, OTR, A-CFHC
Curious about the “Sober Curious” lifestyle? National Alcohol Screening Day is observed on April 6, 2023, this year and aims to raise awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol abuse and dependency and its partially genetic component. This day also emphasizes the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the role this plays in supporting individuals […]
5 Tips to Avoid When Scaling a Small Health and Wellness Business by Dr. Sarah Crawford, PT, DPT, COMT, CMTPT
Scaling a Small Health and Wellness Business? When it comes to scaling a small health and wellness business, it’s important to spend time on the front end that will set your business up for success as your grow. Failing to do so is not guaranteed to be costly and detrimental to the overall success of […]
Why Paying for Speed and Agility is a Waste of Money by Jason Adams
Paying for speed and agility? The first thing that I would like to say is that I am not in total in agreement with the title of this blog. Speed and agility are necessary components of fitness in sports that requires power and explosion. What I am also saying is that speed and agility have to […]
Red Flags to Pay Attention to if Concerned About an Eating Disorder by Laurie Dunham MS, RD, LD, CEDS-S
Every 52 minutes, a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder in the United States (1). Think about that. Eating disorders account for over 10,000 deaths per year and yet still remain largely in the shadows of public health discourse and are often stigmatized, if not glamorized, in popular culture. Our society’s […]
Myth’s Debunked: Eating Disorders by Dr. Tiffany Graves, PsyD
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is an annual campaign to increase public awareness around the deadly realities of eating disorders. Recent years have brought about hopeful changes in terms of the body liberation and acceptance movements. However, many myths regarding disordered eating and weight as it relates to health continue […]
How Does Personalized Nutrition Help? by Dr. Cindy Cassell, PhD, RD, LD
What is Personalized Nutrition? The first time I heard the term “personalized nutrition” I thought, “that’s what registered dietitian/nutritionists are trained to do: develop the most appropriate eating plan for each individual person.” Sequencing the human genome has led to increased knowledge about the potential role individual genetic variations play in health and disease and […]
Work-Life Balance, Does it Exist? by Abby Thrasher
Where did the idea of “work-life balance” come from exactly? It’s crazy to think that during the Industrial Revolution, prior to the 1920’s, the average work week was between 70-100 hours!! Can you imagine?! It was Henry Ford who established the “nine to five” workday and although it quickly became mainstream, he wasn’t the first […]
World Peace Meditation Day by Nationally Certified Health and Wellness Coach Abby Thrasher
Every year, World Peace Meditation Day is held on December 31 as we all contemplate the start of a new year. It is commonly known that when people are at peace with themselves, they are more likely to seek out and build peaceful relationships in their community and country. The aim of World Peace Meditation […]
Spinal ligaments are key to a healthy, pain-free posture, by Libby Winterhalter
Recently, while talking to a doctor, the idea of this article came to me when he said, “Most people don’t even know what the anterior longitudinal ligament is, let alone the fact that it is often both a major cause of – and the secret to curing – forward head posture (FHP).” Ligaments are fibrous […]
Relation of Stress & Pain: Holiday Edition, by Dr. Dennis Mirosh
The holidays can be a crazy time that causes stress as timelines become closer and closer. This can lead to aches and pains springing up that weren’t there before. This can be directly from stress in the neck, causing pain/soreness in that area, or indirectly as the overall stress on the body becomes larger. If […]