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This is part of a series of posts based upon the book The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. See this post for my summary book review or follow along with the entire series below. If you like what you read, then spread the love and share this with your friends and fans socially. Thanks! Principle #1 – The Happiness Advantage Principle #2 – The Fulcrum and the Lever Principle #3 – The Tetris Effect Principle #4 – Falling Up Principle #5 – The Zorro Circle Principle #6 – The 20 Second Rule (this post) Principle #7 – Social Investment ———- The sub title for this chapter…
Intel straight from our hand-picked health squad of best-selling authors, entrepreneurs, and healthy-minded celebs who are leading—and shaking up—the wellness scene. Welcome to the latest from Wellness Council, our handpicked holistic health squad: a tightly curated group that gives the best advice this side of your own personal guru. Here, celebrity nutritionist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author Kimberly Snyder, talks about a subject that’s often overlooked: the surprising emotions that come up when you make major diet changes. What she writes about next is up to you—tell us what what you’re dying to know! Send questions and ideas to experts@www.wellandgood.com. You’ve made the decision to take back control…
Meal times can be a source of frustration and conflict in many families.In a scenario that is familiar to many parents, you go out of your way to provide healthy meals and encourage your kids to eat their leafy greens. But all they want to eat is pie, chips or pizza. Of course you want to encourage your children to eat well. It sets them up for a lifetime of good health and helps them avoid obesity, which we know is a big issue in Australia.Eating disorder factsEating disorders don’t just include anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, There are a…
It’s been just about 20 years since I was first certified as a personal trainer. I was completing my graduate work at the time, and this certification allowed me to teach fitness classes, helping me pay for school. Fast forward 20 years, and I’ve kept up the certification and acquired a couple of other fitness certificates along the way.Now, along with my work in therapy, I teach two group cycling classes each week. My rides are challenging but body-positive. We set intentions, I bring in inspirational quotes, we visualize and engage in mindfulness exercises, and there isn’t a word ever…
For generations, it was called gluttony. Then, for research purposes, it was labeled binge-eating disorder in the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), but not many people noticed. Then, in 2013, it went prime time. That was when the American Psychiatric Association formally labeled it as a mental disorder . The APA decision also changed the definition psychiatrists used to diagnose it. New Status, New Definition Previously, someone had to have out of control eating episodes at least twice a week for a period of 6 months. The new criteria said the episodes only had to occur once…
If you’re recovering from an eating disorder, sometimes scrolling through social media can be a recipe for disaster.I’ve noticed recently that my Facebook feed is filled with women advertising (on groups I’ve joined) their multi-level marketing businesses. They’re selling shakes, body wraps, and beach body programs, touting their own success and before-and-after pictures as proof.When I joined a group of local vegetarians, it wasn’t long before the posts devolved from restaurant recommendations and meetup opportunities to members’ advertisements for boot camps and diet shakes. Why must we conflate a lifestyle choice with a drive to lose weight?Health and nutrition coaches…
Food can be an extremely effective tool for calming young children. If they are bored on a long car journey, or fed up with being in the pushchair, many parents use snack foods to distract them for a little longer. Or if children are upset because they have hurt themselves or want something they cannot have, the offer of something sweet is often used to “make them feel better”. But what are the effects of using food as a tool to deal with emotions like boredom or sadness? Does it turn children into adults who cannot cope with being bored…
While many expect to sail through recovery in a matter of months, statistically it’s not likely to happen that way. But should I be bursting the illusory superiority bubble? Well yes, because fostering what I would call flexible realism appears to increase success at persisting with remission as a practice, at least in my first-person experience with patients.The first thing that crosses your mind when you are several months into recovery and nothing seems to be improving is to ask yourself “What am I doing wrong?” The conclusion that something must be wrong is at least partially based on many…
You stumble onto this website. You realize that there’s a very strong likelihood that the source of all your health problems is the fact that you under eat severely. You are shocked. You e-mail me as this site’s owner (and everyone who thinks that they aren’t “thin” enough to have an eating disorder does this) to confirm that the re-feeding guidelines apply to you. You confer with trusted in-person family and friends and maybe if you’re very, very lucky, a decent doctor. You decide to support your energy requirements and begin the recovery process.It’s a big deal when someone can…
the-exercist: davijane:stephaniexwins:the-exercist:Let’s take a minute to talk about the anterior pelvic tilt, shall we? An Anterior Pelvic Tilt is a posture problem that naturally occurs in many people when they sit for hours each day. It’s caused by a “shortening” and stiffening of our hip flexors, which causes our lumbar curvature to increase while our hips tilt forward. While some degree of poor posture is going to happen to anyone who spends time sitting at their computer, lots of us consciously exacerbate this problem without realizing that it’s hurting us. Check out the image posted above – This pelvic tilt…