If the chaise lounge approach to managing stress with a therapist isn’t your style, or you just can’t get an appointment since psychoanalysis is as in-demand as adopting a rescue dog, we have some natural solutions. You may find that some of these feel-good exercises will be so effective, they’ll become a regular part of a healthy lifestyle.
Archives for January 2021
Ultimate Guide to Eco-Dining
Sensible dining isn’t only about eating the sprouts on your fancy salad, being eco-conscious is part of a healthy outlook. In the age of doing your part we wear masks, travel fuel-efficiently and eat with reusable pieces. This doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice convenience or style, it’s simply a matter of tweaking everyday routines. By using sustainable dinnerware, you’re reducing your carbon imprint and the environment will breathe a little better because of it.
Healthy Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Keto, paleo, raw: The evolving spectrum of on-trend diets can make you feel like a teen navigating handbag shapes. Though the plant-based movement, dare we say revolution, is gaining recognition because limiting animal-derived foods is not only good for you, it’s good for the environment. Plant-based foods are less taxing on our natural resources, thereby reducing your carbon footprint, saving water and animal life.
Winter We’ve Got This: How to Beat the Cold Weather Blahs
Those alpine scenes of snow-capped mountains and frolicking reindeer commonly portrayed on ugly Christmas sweaters doesn’t effectively correspond to the winter seen outside my window. Grey skies spiderwebbed with bare trees, anxious squirrels gathering provisions, is the more accurate portrayal.
How the Home Has Evolved After Shelter-In-Place
After living in shelter-in-place, we have our own takeaways like the war-era granny who maximized the lifecycle of soap. 2020 has become the most challenged year in most people’s lifetime but there were positives from a year of adversity (without undermining the loss of life).
Lessons from an Efficient Quarantine Home:
- Respectfully connect with the household while also giving members their space.
- Resilience and not being so entitled in a cancel culture due to limited external activity.
- Uptick in leisure activities: Cooking, games, reading and music.
- More quality time with pets.
- Learning how to do basic tasks like mending clothes, household repairs, haircuts (though our kids may disagree).
- Editing our belongings: Pairing down to essentials and an attention to quality.
- Learning the art of being thrifty: To not waste provisions, the importance of effectively storing food and creating an efficient pantry.
- Creating valued spaces in the home like an office, renovated basement, home gym and outdoor area.
- Translating the best in boutique hotel living to the home: Homing in on simple luxury needs.
Skills that value resources and increase an awareness of consideration will have longterm effects that will promote good living. Please tune in to the Happy Healthy Home’s podcast on the positive home trends learned from quarantine.
Happy Health Home: Home Trends After Shelter In Place