Whether you’re going on a quick getaway, a fun family vacation, a sightseeing adventure, or visiting family or friends, traveling can be both fun and therapeutic. If you’re staying at a hotel with a pool, it might seem as if the pool is calling your name. While lounging at the hotel pool can definitely be [...]
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6 Creative Ways to Green Your Life in Time for Summer
There’s a lot of pressure these days to be sustainable superheroes with canteen-packing totes, perfectly organic diets, and pricey hybrid cars. Most people are lucky to have access to a grocery store that even stocks local, organic foods, let alone at a price that’s amenable to the average income. These issues aside, sustainability and environmental [...]
Will Banning Underweight Models Prevent Eating Disorders?
In 2007, Israeli fashion model Hila Elmaliah died of anorexia at 34-years-old. She had dwindled away to just under 60 pounds when she passed. Elmaliah’s untimely death motivated her friend, Israeli photographer and modeling agent Adi Barkan, to campaign for legislation in Israel that would prevent underweight models from walking the catwalk. Just over a year [...]
Plants of May: Your Seasonal Guide to Food as Medicine
The arrival of May means that no matter where you live, warm days are finally beginning to outnumber cold; daylight is beginning to stretch into the evening hours, and Pinterest boards are likely filling with recipes for barbeques, tasty salads, and Sun Tea. In the plant world, spring is a time for new growth. Flowers [...]
Deepak Chopra: The Secret of Creativity
How do you keep your creative spirit alive even as you progress further into adulthood? In this week’s episode of “The Rabbit Hole” on The Chopra Well, Deepak Chopra explores the dynamics of a creative life and the relationship between age and creativity (we don’t have to lose our imagination as we grow older!). Imagination [...]
Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Daphne Oz on Healthy Eating, the Fun Way!
In this week’s vlog I sit down with my friend Daphne Oz and chat about her New York Times bestselling book Relish, An Adventure in Food, Style, and Everyday Fun. In the book Daphne shares essential advice on how to relish your food, your home, and your life in order to maximize health and happiness. Daphne shares [...]
What Happens When A College Rape Victim Posts Her Attacker’s Name to Internet
After months of inaction by local police and her university’s authorities, a 21-year-old college student decided to take matters into her own hands and post her rapist’s name and picture on the Internet. In her article, originally published on XOJane.com, the woman writes: After my university failed to take immediate action against the student who [...]
The 5 Most Misguided Celebrity Weight-Loss Methods
We live in a society that scrutinizes body and weight at every turn. With billboards, reality tv, music videos, and red carpet events, we get bombarded by images of trim, glamorous celebrities, our supposed role models of beauty. Aesthetic preferences are bound to develop and vary from culture to culture, but this tendency becomes dangerous [...]
6 Positive Affirmations to Change Your Life
Click here to read part 1 of this post. The following are C. James Jensen’s six key affirmations from Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind. These affirmations can bring about substantial improvements in your life. He says to use them every day for the first 30 days before adding your own affirmations: 1.) I like (love) [...]
Is Plastic Surgery Making Women All Look the Same?
Does anyone watch beauty pageants anymore? In a way the tradition seems stale and outdated. But with shows like “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and “Pageant Place” the culture of beauty contests is surprisingly alive and well. Obsession with physical beauty is nothing new in human cultures, and even body modification for aesthetic purposes has [...]
