• Resilience

    I am God, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. —Isaiah 48:17 MSG Resilience means that no matter what our circumstances are, we are able to begin afresh and try again. If we haven’t eaten well for breakfast, we begin anew at lunch. If we’ve made a choice we regret, we reframe ...

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  • Why Resilience Is the Key to Lasting Happiness & How to Cultivate it

    Source:  MindBodyGreen Although we all try to do what we think it takes to be happy, so many of us are still unhappier than ever before. The code to unlocking bliss and success isn’t the quest for it, after all. Groundbreaking research shows that happiness is in fact much easier to attain if we stop focusing ...

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  • Anti-Anxiety Eating

    These four nutritional strategies can help support a calmer state of mind. We live in anxious times. Nearly one in five Americans has been diagnosed with anxiety, though the actual number is likely much higher: An estimated two-thirds of sufferers don’t seek medical help. Experts have linked this epidemic to a complex tangle of external ...

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  • The Big Difference

    I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. —Romans 7:15 Have you experienced this pattern when you tried to make healthy changes? You can’t always make yourself do right. You want to, but you can’t. And when you try not ...

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  • 10 Habits of Emotionally Resilient People

    source: MindBodyGreen Ever notice how some people are stressed during transitions while others can just roll with the punches? It all comes down to emotional resilience. While some of it may be biological, there are ten traits that you can start cultivating today to start living life with less resistance and more ease: Here are ...

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  • How to Make Your Body Crave Exercise

    Source:  MindBodyGreen As we head into summer, many of us want to start exercising more, so getting in the right mindset is key. If you ask me, dread is the absolute worst feeling. When I was trying to get to a place where I actually wanted to go to the gym, I used these six steps. ...

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  • Every Part of You

    Give yourselves completely to God—every part of you—for you are back from death and you want to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for his good purposes. —Romans 6:13 TLB God has given us so much. He enables us to see, hear, breathe. There is darkness in our world, but there ...

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  • 13 Meal-Prep Hacks to Save Time in the Kitchen

    Source: Livestrong We’ve all done it: stared at the fridge for a full five minutes, but then ordered pizza. “Waiting until the last minute to choose what we are eating can lead to poor choices because we really can’t make sound decisions when we are running from one place to the next and don’t have the ...

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  • Craving Carbs? This Is What Your Body Actually Needs

    Source: MindBodyGreen Did you ever walk down a busy street, and the simple smell of baked goods gets your body craving bread, pasta, or pastries? Suddenly you went from craving nothing to, “I need a cinnamon roll and I need it now.” That’s because seeing a photo of food, smelling food, or even thinking about indulging ...

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  • 4 Ways to Outsmart a Craving

    Source:  Prevention One minute, you’re innocently going about your day—the next, you’re in the clutches of desire. Your object of lust: a chocolate cupcake with buttercream icing. Next thing you know, you’re licking frosting off your fingers. What just happened? You were clobbered by a food craving. In a study from Tufts University, 91% of women ...

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