Anxiety and Diet – The Ultimate Guide to Living (Well) With Anxiety, Part 4
There is a possibility that your anxiety has nothing to do with your diet. Totally. If your anxiety is a product of a very traumatic experience, maybe it’s 100% a mental disorder. There is no real solid way to determine the cause of an anxiety disorder, unfortunately, because there are so many possible causes. There’s a chance that improving your diet won’t help. But there is also a (good, I believe) chance that it could help. Anxiety is complex, our bodies are complex. I have been absolutely convinced, through experience, that my diet directly affects my anxiety.
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Dealing With Anxiety in Pregnancy
Dealing with anxiety in pregnancy isn’t something I had ever given much thought to before – and I had shared (more or less) all the basics of the things I know about living well with anxiety. But of course, there’s always more to learn. In fact, every new experience offers me a choice – A) choose to learn how to deal or B) spiral into full blown prolonged panic mode.
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13 Easy Ways to Eat More Vegetables
It’s easy to think “I really should (insert thing you really should do here), but another thing altogether to actually DO the thing. And we all struggle with different “things we really should do”, what comes easy to one of us isn’t as easy for another.
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8 Vegetables You Should ALWAYS Buy Organic
Hi, everyone! My name is Brea, and I write over at BreaGettingFit. I’m obsessed with everything healthy, and was talking to Carly about why pesticides scare the apples out of me (see what I did there?). So today, I wanted to share some interesting, disturbing facts with you about pesticides. Don’t worry. I’m not all doom and gloom. I’ve also included two awesome lists that you can use to help you save money at the grocery store.
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4 NON-Dietary Cleanses to Detox Your Life & Enhance Your Health
Cleanses and detoxes have been all the rage in the last 10 years. Whether it’s a post-holidays indulgence juice-cleanse or a colon detox, the idea of a cleanse or detox is to remove toxins from your body and start anew.
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If Your Gut Is Sick, You Are Sick – 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut
Ten years ago, I would have told you that I thought this “gut health” fad was just that – a fad. (And I could absolutely not accept that everyone was suddenly coming down with “celiac” disease. As we advance medically, diseases should become less rampant, not more – right?)
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8 Ways to Drastically Improve Your Health FOR FREE
It’s pretty darn hard to love life when you feel crappy. (Even if you have an otherwise great life, yes?) So it makes perfect sense that we would take drastic steps to improve our health any way we can… including spending heaps of cash on expensive products that seem to be promising the solutions to our problems.
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The Miracle Drink With AMAZING Health Benefits
We need to talk. We have a big problem. (The “we” here being those of us in the developed world, for the most part.) So many of us live in a constant state of searching for health. We feel overwhelmingly tired and achy. We have brain fog and blotchy skin. We have weight issues. We shell out big cash for supplements and shakes and gyms. All to little (or no) benefit.
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The Ultimate Guide to Living (Well) With Anxiety, Part 10 – 3 Things to Remember When You Are Anxious
I could write endlessly about hundreds of aspects of anxiety, and what I’ve found to be beneficial. But the series has gotta end eventually. There are some thoughts I have to leave with you, that didn’t fit in anywhere else, before we finish. These are paramount thoughts, for me anyhow, even though they aren’t full gown enough to merit their own post.
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Healthy, Gluten Free Lunch ON THE ROAD – for less than 3$
When G was first diagnosed with colitis and given his strict grain free diet, we were stuck between a VERY big rock and VERY hard place. He works out of a truck. Sometimes he doesn’t even see a restaurant… but let’s face it. Even if he did, a restaurant meal a day (especially of the gluten free variety) is gonna get pretty expensive pretty quick.
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