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Can your heart be too open? From “The Rules” to wearing your heart on your sleeve.
Happy Valentine’s Day! Can your heart be TOO open? I often think about this, especially at times of burnout or difficult days with the kids. We can pour our love and energy out to others and, occasionally, be left feeling depleted or as though the loving energy isn’t returned. Perhaps you have had the feeling
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Scents, Secrets & Memories: a review of The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
my thoughts on the novel, The Scent Keeper, by Erica Bauermeister.
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emotional burnout in yoga/fitness instructors
When we talk about burnout in fitness teaching, it’s often the physical toll that teaching takes on our bodies that we discuss. Overuse injuries are a real thing that many fitness instructors deal with. In her 2016 book The Melt Method, fitness professional Sue Hitzmann describes how, at one point, she was teaching 28 classes a week
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the beauty benefits of rosehip oil
If you know me, you know how much I adore roses. I love rose essential oil, rose perfume, rose water as a toner, and even bake with rose water and rose petals! There is another part of the rose that I also put to use in skin care, and that is rosehip oil. What exactly are rosehips
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All about Flexibility
Flexibility training is one of the most controversial topics in fitness, but I will always be a strong believer in the benefits of regular stretching. Despite arguments that we don’t really need to stretch or that we should only ever do dynamic stretching, I know that stretching makes my body feel good and improves my
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Essential Oil Favourites, Part 2: Bergamot 🍊
Have you ever enjoyed a cup of Earl Grey tea? If so, you have experienced the beauty of bergamot (citrus bergamia) essential oil. The classic blend of black tea and bergamot oil is named in honour of the second Earl of Grey, however the origin story is a little murky (read this history for the
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