Oh… you’ve been waiting for us to produce some LOVEY-DOVEY St. Patrick’s Day printables?? Good thing we’ve got you covered! One of our talented designers, Brie, with All-Around Eye Candy, designed the graphics for these cute notes that you can place ANYWHERE in your home to surprise your sweetheart! Like maybe here… OR here.. Or even HERE!? Print them off & use them ALL! Six total!! ENJOY!!
A: Awareness of breath can provoke anxiety, and not just for the lung disease patients I see as a pulmonologist. The 4-7-8 breath can be used for situations where you’re feeling particularly anxious, stressed, or even if you have some difficulty falling asleep. The 4-7-8 Breath It’s a simple and portable practice: You inhale for a count of four, then you hold your breath for a count of seven, and then you exhale through your mouth through pursed lips for a count of eight....
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. One of our favorite designers, Courtney of Paperelli, created 3 sets of notes to attach to balloons! The notes are bright, fun and all the colors of the rainbow! Thanks, Courtney!! Balloon Surprise Candy Notes For the kids (or your spouse!) We thought of 6 St. Patty’s candy gram puns (we love puns!) to go along with candy treats....
ATH provided some bobby pin inspo a while ago, so we thought it’s worth it to give an update and remind everyone just how great the bobby pin is if you want to step up your style. Read on and get inspired for the warmer, hair-off-your-face days to come: Step Up Your Style: 5 Must-Try Bobby Pin Looks for 2017 1. The Sophisticated, Low-Ponytail Let’s start with something simple, shall we?...
These styles push boundaries and also inspire us to go for it! If you’re tired of styling your hair the same two or three ways, we recommend you look to street style. Check out our street style round up for some new ways to switch up your look. 2019 NYFW F/W Street Style Round Up 1. Sleek Low Pony This chic and classic hairstyle is perfect for any occasion! Whether you’re going out to run a few errands or are going out for the night, this is a must-try style....
Creating space in the day to stop, come down from the worried mind, and get back into the present moment has been shown to be enormously helpful in mitigating the negative effects of our stress response. When we drop into the present, we’re more likely to gain perspective and see that we have the power to regulate our response to pressure. Here’s a short practice you can weave into your day to step into that space between stimulus and response....
Researchers at Radboud University collected data from 901 Dutch families, using questionnaires to measure adolescents’ depression and anxiety, as well as parents’ well-being and approach to parenting. The results, published in the Journal of Child Family Studies, replicate past research suggesting that mindful parenting is associated with better well-being in parents. Mindful parenting involves integrating the principles of mindfulness into parenting: listening to the child with full attention, being emotionally aware of and non-judgmentally accepting of the self and the child’s feelings, and not being overly reactive to stressful situations....
Three hours of binge-watching later, we were ankle-deep in loaves of bread that were underproofed (it’s a shame, really) and melted ice cream fiascos that have lived in my head rent-free ever since. If you haven’t caught The Great British Bake Off fever (or Disney Magic Bake Off for the kiddos), now is the time to go turn on an episode. After you’ve binged all the seasons, come back here for a fun, technical challenge Bake-Off-inspired date for the whole family!...
For veterans adjusting to civilian life, a four-day whitewater rafting trip provides another chance to find peace. In this video from the Sierra Club Military Outdoors, veterans and 9/11 first responders share their experiences through the Gates of Lodore in the Green River in Utah. “When I came out of my second deployment, I was prescribed all of these medications that were supposed to do all these things—and weren’t,” says a veteran named Logan Demarcus....
Layered Bob: 10 Easy and Weightless Styles to Consider Check out our guide below to help inspire your next layered bob look. 1. Sleek and Shiny Give your subtle layers a leg up by amping up their shine factor. Comb a shine spray through just the bottom of your strands to give them a dose of sleek and healthy shine without weighing them down. 2. Feathered Edges If you aren’t quite ready for a set of full and heavy layers, consider asking your stylist for feathered layers....
You’re probably circling somewhere around the top of your head. What if someone responded to that question with: Where isn’t your mind? That person is Dan Siegel, UCLA psychiatry professor and author of Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human. In a recent video from Big Think, Siegel argues the mind can be in two places at once, existing within and between things. It is both within your body—in the skull—and “between you and other people and the planet....
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When people come together for a first session of mindfulness training, it’s usual to explore what brings each individual to the approach. Hearing others speak of the stress arising from common problems such as busy, uncontrolled thoughts, physical or emotional pain, the strain of personal and professional commitments, and the speed of a world that demands a dehumanizing degree of consumption and acquisition, there often dawns a first recognition that the real problem doesn’t just lie in me as an individual, but the common burden of living a human existence, with human frailties, in a human world....
The Science of Staying Present In a large trial of MBRP, mindfulness-trained patients drank and used drugs significantly less than those who were treated with cognitive-behavioural approaches, and a control group who attended twelve-step and psycho-education groups. The authors of the study conclude that mindfulness was the most successful approach, especially over the longer term, because it enabled patients to “monitor and skilfully cope with discomfort associated with craving or negative affect....
Deprivation curiosity is driven by a lack of information, often a specific piece of information. For example, if you are in a meeting or out to dinner, and you feel or hear a text come into your phone, you might notice that suddenly it is really hard to pay attention because not knowing what the text says makes you restless, causing your body temperature to rise. It’s as though your phone starts burning a hole in your purse or your pocket....
How to Get Healthy-Looking Hair 1. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. This one almost goes without saying but it’s something that I am constantly working on despite being warned time and again. Staying hydrated plays a key role in our overall health and in the proof is in the pudding. I notice a definite change in how clear my skin is and my overall energy levels depending on how mindful I am about hydrating....
Perhaps your daughter got a D+ on the math test—and you regret some harsh words. Maybe you’re telling yourself that you bungled advice to your fifth-grader about how to handle an annoying classmate. You couldn’t keep your promise to attend your son’s music recital—and there’s a voice in your head telling you that you’re a terrible parent. But there’s an alternative to that harsh self-talk: self-compassion. According to researcher Kristin Neff, “self-compassion provides an island of calm, a refuge from the stormy seas of endless positive and negative self-judgment....
Time-Saving Ponytail Hairstyles Say hello to the time-saving ponytail! It’s your go-to hairstyle other than a bun that can totally save the day in the nick of time. Read on to see five of our favorite ponytail hairstyle ideas that you can do in ten minutes or less: 1. The Sexy Low Ponytail No time to refresh your blowout style for an upcoming event? Here’s a quick style you can do with your eyes closed....
How to Get Tousled Hair for Every Length Short tousled hair It’s very easy to get the look on short hair. On clean dry hair, apply a heat protectant like TRESemmé Thermal Creations Heat Tamer Spray to protect your hair from damage. This heat tamer not only protects hair from heat damage, but also works to replenish moisture and enhance texture, leaving hair soft and shiny. Using a hair wand, position the narrow end of the wand downward and wrap a section of your hair around the barrel, leaving the ends pulled straight....
Any sound can be the object of our focus in mindfulness practice. Even the most annoying sounds, like a horn blaring outside, an alarm clock beeping, or people yelling, can be perceived differently when we bring mindfulness to them. The annoyance of those sounds doesn’t come from the sounds themselves; it comes from our interpretation of those sounds as “bad.” When we bring mindfulness to it, we shift our relationship from aversion to curiosity, allowing the sounds to rise and fall, lessening their negative impact....
