Relational health habit - Emotional wellness thrives when we choose relationships with people who love, respect, inspire, encourage, comfort, nourish, teach and learn from us… and we give it right back to them. I changed a few words to a children’s song that goes like this—🎶These 8 gifts are like a magic penny. Hold them tight and you won’t have any. Give them away and you’ll have so many… enough to make you and me soar. Love is something if you give it away, you end up havi

Short and simple mental/emotional health practice - Do you practice emotional first aid? Do you give your emotional wounds & pain the same level of attention as you give to your physical injuries & ailments? A cut can get infected and cause a lot of trouble if we don’t clean it and apply a band aid. The same is true for our mental scrapes & bruises. Experiencing failure, rejection and loneliness can cause emotional & mental illness if we don’t deal with those injuries properl

Short and simple physical fitness tool: Stretching delivers a big payoff for a not so big effort. Here are a few ways stretching benefits our bodies: 1)improved circulation; 2) it can activate the part of our nervous system that induces calmness and relaxation; 3) improved range of motion and better sports performance; 4) improved posture; and 5) it feels good!! Who doesn’t want that? Scan the internet or check with your healthcare provider for a routine of easy daily stretch

Short and simple nutritional truth: Do you know if you regularly exceed the daily recommended Dietary Guidelines for sodium intake: < 2,300 mg—(about 1 teaspoon); and sugar intake: < 24 grams (about 6 teaspoons for most women) and <36 grams (about 9 teaspoons for most men) per day? A diet high in salt and/or sugar often contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. Cutting back on these two culprits by choosing fresh unprocessed food