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Exercise for Mental Health - Reframing New Year Resolutions
Mental health has become an increasing focus and reason to exercise as of late with more and more scientific literature showing the many ways the brain/mind can benefit from a variety of types, durations, and intensities, and for different reasons. These days (and not just the holidays and transition to a new year), people deal with a considerable amount of stress from day to day and so I thought it might be nice to review just how incredible exercise can be from another perspective. Instead of “getting six pack abs”, “running a marathon”, or “shedding some holiday pounds” perspective we can all try shifting things a little for the new year.

Food Choices & Shedding Your Former Self - Consistency, Tips, & Common Mistakes
The issue with many of the messages around nutrition “how to change” articles (including our own at times), is they lack a key component: YOU NEED TO OVERRIDE PART OF YOURSELF IN A VERY EFFORTFUL WAY…you need to actually pull the plug on a part of yourself and you need to be able to do it DAILY and MAKE PLANS BEYOND SHORT TERM GOALS.

Breaking Down Barriers in Fitness & How to Make Sense of Conflicting Information
Fitness is meant to be inclusive. Yet sometimes it feels like there are more barriers now, than there were before, to getting healthy and fit. Whether it is deliberate disinformation, health authorities acting as gatekeepers, false dichotomies of the “best” fitness regimen, and more; it can be hard to disentangle fact from fiction let alone figure out what will be best for you. We wrote this to help break down some barriers and sort things out.