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It’s Emotional Wellness Month

It’s Emotional Wellness Month

  The Elements Massage® brand believes that monthly massages make everything better for your body, mind, and spirit. That’s why we’re so excited that October is Emotional Wellness Month: four weeks set aside to focus on the things that help make all aspects of living healthier, happier, and balanced!    At first blush, Emotional Wellness Month […]

CoQ10 May Help AFib, NAFLD and Other Chronic Diseases

This article was previously published October 22, 2020, and has been updated with new information. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is the third-most consumed supplement,1 yet many people don’t realize how clinically effective it really is. Although it’s not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment or preventative drug, several new studies show […]

How Stress Affects Gut Health (and What to Do About It)

How Stress Affects Gut Health (and What to Do About It)

Stress is physical. It’s caused by physical phenomena in the material world. It manifests as a physiological response using physical hormones and neurotransmitters and other chemical messengers in the body. It changes biomarkers, neurochemistry, behavior, appetites, and our perception of the world around us. Stress can make us fly off the handle at something that […]

Why Boosting Your Immune System Makes You Feel Sicker (And 8 Other Facts That Will Protect Your Health)

Why Boosting Your Immune System Makes You Feel Sicker (And 8 Other Facts That Will Protect Your Health)

“You have a supercharged immune system…and that is why you’re so sick.” I’ll never forget the words from my immunologist. It was the same speculation I heard a week earlier from my oncologist, right after a relieving conversation where she shared that I didn’t have cancer. If I’m being open, this was the third time […]

4 Ways to Make Peace with Overwhelming Emotions

4 Ways to Make Peace with Overwhelming Emotions

Emotions are like waves. When you’re in the middle of an intense situation, emotions can be overpowering — like they’re going to sweep you away and drown you. When you feel like this, it’s hard to remember that emotions are transient and do not last forever. Later, when things have calmed down a bit or […]

Bust through the Resolution Rut by Focusing on Overall Health, Well-Being in 2012

Bust through the Resolution Rut by Focusing on Overall Health, Well-Being in 2012

With the hustle and bustle of the hectic holidays in your rear view mirror, the never-ending possibilities for a healthy and happy new year are on the horizon. To grasp the unlimited potential the New Year can bring, people can be as frantic about New Year’s resolutions as they were on Black Friday racing to […]

Managing Work Stress in a Changing World

Managing Work Stress in a Changing World

These last few months have shown us how quickly our world can change. The ability to be adaptable and flexible has taken on a new perspective. Information, plans, teams, and customers have shifted at a dizzying pace, accompanied by a higher level of fear and anxiety. Managing work stress is becoming a big priority for […]

5 Tips for Leaving Your Stress at Work

5 Tips for Leaving Your Stress at Work

No matter what your job is, work can be stressful. But what if it gets so stressful you feel like you have no time to relax? You end up bringing piles of work home with you, and it starts to cut into the time you should be spending on yourself or with your friends and […]

Podcast: Panicked Over Finances? Why Money Influences our Mental Health

Podcast: Panicked Over Finances? Why Money Influences our Mental Health

  The rent is due tomorrow; but then you’ll be left with only $10 for the week’s groceries. What do you do? Many people panic over money (or the lack of it), but for those of us with mental illness, it can feel like a life or death situation: It can trigger an even greater […]

How Someone Else Drinking Alcohol Can Damage Your Brain

How Someone Else Drinking Alcohol Can Damage Your Brain

I bet you knew that alcohol use, including routine binge drinking, heavy social drinking, alcohol abuse, and alcoholism, leads to serious brain changes. These brain alterations can negatively impact a person’s cognitive thinking skills, visuospatial perception, motor skills, short and long-term memory, and decision-making abilities. Brain changes can exist in the alcoholic who quits drinking […]