Helpful Tips For New Moms
By Mary Maloney, Wellness Associate St. Vincent’s Health System You’ve waited nine months (or more!) to hold your little bundle of joy in your arms, but if you’re like most moms, once you get home from...
View Article15 Ways To Be Happier
What is happiness? We all search for it, but the reality is life is hard and this illusion of being happy all the time is just that- an illusion. Instead of seeking this feeling of ‘happy’, practice...
View Article10 Tips For Your Pure Barre Class: Get Your Best Body Yet
There’s no doubt about it, the heat is here to stay in Birmingham! The temperatures are rising and that means you’re wearing less clothing. Are you ready to have the best body yet? Let’s talk about an...
View ArticleWhat We Eat And Drink Is Far More Powerful Than Any Pill
Remember when your grandparents would warn you, “Don’t eat too much cake because you might get a belly ache!” It was because they knew there was a direct relationship to you eating too much sugar and...
View ArticleTips On Juicing
A decade ago when you heard the word juicing images of a gaunt-like person dressed in earthy clothes and living off acai berries came to mind. A few years ago, the juice cleanse became the trend:...
View ArticleHow To Oil Pull
If you are looking to cleanse your teeth, skin, and body – this may just be for you. You may have heard the buzz surrounding oil pulling – an oral health practice that many believe detoxes the body and...
View ArticleTips To Create The Perfect Bath
Water or hydro therapy can be traced to about 4500 BC to the areas that are now Egypt, Iraq and Iran. Immersing the body in water is medically proven to be relaxing, therapeutic and a complement to a...
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Woman Of Style: Angela Pewitt Of AlektraRunwear
Warm weather is here, the outdoors are calling, and Mother’s Day is right around the corner. I cannot think of a cooler gift for an athletic mom than AlektraRunwear, a brand of running shorts and...
View ArticleThe Mean Green Smoothie
Remember when a smoothie meant a ‘fruit smoothie’ filled with bananas, strawberries, and sweet sugary mixes? Oh my how we have evolved in our thinking. As we’ve educated ourselves more about food and...
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How To Cook With Edible Flowers
Cooking, flavoring, and garnishing with flowers has been traced back to Roman times as well as to the Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Indian cultures. Edible flowers were especially popular in the...
View ArticleWe Are Stewards Of This Earth
I was in our house when my daughter came in, “Mommy will you come outside with me?” I went outside where I found she had piled some sticks, flowers, leaves, and rocks. She asked me to sit down beside...
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Blood Orange Kale Salad
It’s blood orange season, combine that with kale and quinoa and you have the makings of one awesome, healthy salad. Find my recipe below and read these tips for using kale: 1. Do Not Cook – You do not...
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How To Plant A Vegetable Garden
If you want to witness God’s beauty, it all begins in the dirt. We often speak of gardening as a ‘hobby’, but gardening isn’t simply a hobby, it is part of the human experience. It is essential to...
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Spaghetti Squash Veggie Bowl With Goat Cheese
My daughter loves eating spaghetti squash, probably because of the cool factor since with the touch of a fork the squash pulls off like noodles. We grow spaghetti squash, spinach, and tomatoes in the...
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5 Tips To Spring Clean Your Body
When we hear the term spring cleaning we think about our home and organizing or de-cluttering our material items. A far more important task though is spring cleaning our bodies and minds. In other...
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Salmon Cobb Salad Recipe
Think outside the bun this summer and enjoy food that doesn’t just taste good but makes you feel good. A great alternative to the typical hot dog fest is to serve fish or a lighter meat. With salmon...
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The Alabama Oyster
“That’s what we call Butter Love,” says Lane Zirlott of Murder Point Oyster Company as he takes an oyster knife and severs the muscle of an oyster shell with a distinct purple stripe to reveal the...
View Article10 Easy Ways To Slow Down The Aging Process
Scientists now believe up to 40% of how we age is within our power to slow down. So what can we do to combat the aging process? Dr. Christopher Calapai, D.O. is an NYC Osteopathic Physician board...
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Health Benefits Of Lavender
One of the highlights of our recent New Mexico travels was staying at Los Poblanos Lavender Farm and Inn. At this beautiful property visitors can actually partake in lavender harvesting, lavender...
View Article8 Ways To Get Out Of Your Head
My husband and I have always talked in depth about spirituality and God, but in recent years our spiritual journey has opened our hearts and minds to a deeper understanding of love and humanness. Does...
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