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5 Creative Ways to Put Your Mental Health Above Your Job by Konstantin Lukin, Ph.D.

Do your career goals not resonate with your personal desires? Do you feel ineffective, or detached from your purpose in your job? Do you feel manipulated or disrespected by co-workers? Not every day is easy. But allowing too many bad days at work to pass where you don’t feel motivated or your work doesn’t feel purposeful can lead to burnout. Burnout isn’t just being tired of your job; it’s chronic stress that can lead to both physical and emotional exhaustion. Burnout can hap

A Small Step to Healthy Eating by Zarmeen Patil, M.S.Biochemistry + Organic Chemistry Wellness and F

Night after night, families are fraught with indecision about what to feed their kids. Does one attempt to be valiant and present their children with all the food groups on their dinner plate or throw in the towel and pull out the chicken tenders and pasta? Making individual swaps to a more “healthy” alternative i.e. substituting unsweetened yogurt for the sugary kind or real chicken instead of fake chicken is one approach but certainly not the only one towards eating healthf

My Top Five Dinners In a Hurry by Amara Wagner, Integrative Health Coach

I think I may have blinked once and all of a sudden it’s the end of August and I’m starting to think about September. As I look at the fall calendar my mind also goes to meal planning and I’ve started thinking about what busy weeknight dinners are going to look like this year. One of the questions I am frequently asked by my clients is, how do I manage to cook dinner every night? The truth is, between my work, the kids, the house, the laundry (I’m actually embarrassed to adm

Count Colors Instead of Calories by Amara Wagner, Integrative Health Coach

Over the years you’ve been taught to count calories, fat grams, salt and sugar content, but did you know that your antioxidant intake might be the most important factor to your health and well-being? The truth is, a healthy diet, especially for growing children, doesn’t need to include obsessive counting of anything —calories, fat or even sugar, SO LONG as there is a conscious effort to include color in every meal and snack. WHY COLOR? First, when I say color, I’m talking abo

What to Expect When Your Child Comes Home from Treatment by Fern Weis, Parent Empowerment Coach + Fa

Thirty, sixty, ninety days. Clean and sober. They're in recovery, fixed, and all's right with the world, right? No, no, and no. The process of long-term recovery is just beginning. Careful planning is necessary to transition back to what you might call a normal life. And when your child comes home from treatment, things have to be different. If nothing changes in the family and your child's environment, then not much changes for your child. What does all this look like?

What’s the Buzz About Caregiver Fatigue by Vivian Green Korner, Certified Dementia Practitioner

With all the responsibilities confronting caregivers along with balancing work, family, social and other responsibilities, it’s not uncommon to get overwhelmed and burnt out. This is now referred to as “caregiver fatigue”. Often caregivers get so involved in caregiving that they hit a breaking point. Here are some common signs of caregiver fatigue: Constant state of being tired Sense of hopelessness Health issues Physical symptoms Depression Retreating from others and activit

The Benefits of a Home Water Purification System By Passaic Bergen Water Softening

Access to clean drinking water is essential for healthy living as it is recommended that people drink at least 64 ounces of water each day. However, many people do not like the taste of tap water, which often leads these individuals to purchase bottled water for their home. However, purchasing bottled water can quickly become expensive. If you are looking for another way to access clean, refreshing drinking water in your home, you should consider a whole-home water purifier.

How to Love Yourself in 10 Days by Lauren McCarthy Debiak, LCSW

This year Valentine’s Day is going to be really special. Prepare to be swept off your feet… It’s 10 days to Valentine’s Day. For most of us, it’s a chance to get dinner out of the house for a few hours. With life happening all around you, and the ever-mounting lists and to-dos, it’s hard to get in the mood… of the season, that is. With tasks, routines, making dinner, juggling schedules, and taking care of everyone else, it can be a challenge to receive the pampering and atten

Taking the Next Step by Vivian Green Korner, Certified Dementia Practitioner

At the start of the holiday season I wrote an article suggesting that holiday gatherings are useful times to evaluate possible changes in the health and safety of an aging parent or relative. If you have assessed that there has been a change in cognitive functioning, the question is: What’s the next step? For starters: -Don’t panic and come across as a disciplinarian insisting upon immediate change; -Be mindful that no one likes to feel like they are being managed or that the

How to Manage Reluctance to Taking Medication by Vivian Green Korner, Certified Dementia Practitione

As dementia progresses, individuals with this illness can resist taking medication. What can contribute to resistance or reluctance to taking medication can be caused by the individual’s confusion, lack of understanding, sleep problems, and/or restlessness. For some individuals, they hear what is being said i.e., “it’s time to take your medication” or here’s your medication” but can no longer comprehend and process what are the steps to be taken to “take medication”. To be ef

Before You Medicate…. Investigate by Stephanie Strozuk, MD, FAAP

Fatigue... low mood... insomnia...mood swings… inattention… agitation…rapid heartbeat…racing thoughts. Sound familiar? These symptoms often times result in a prescription for an antidepressant or antianxiety medication. But what if I were to tell you that these symptoms may be a message that something else may be awry besides a “chemical imbalance “in the brain? In the six decades that psychotropic medications have been studied, the conclusions about their use and effective

This Is When It Really Matters by Zarmeen Patil, M.S.Biochemistry + Organic Chemistry Wellness and F

Your New Year’s clean eating resolution doesn’t start in 2018. It starts now. With Thanksgiving and other holidays around the corner, I encourage you to get ahead of yourself before the mistakes happen and the pounds creep up. Research shows that people mimic the eating patterns of the people they’re in company with. By simply reading this article, you are aware of the potential pitfalls of holiday eating; Instead of reaching for a third helping of that delicious pumpkin pie,

Coffee and Cookies by Zarmeen Patil, M.S. Biochemistry + Organic Chemistry Wellness and Food Science

Next time you meet friends for coffee, bring some coffee flour cookies and get them talking! But what is Coffee Flour? Coffee is a $30 Billion dollar industry in the U.S alone. Billions of coffee beans are harvested to sustain this growing market. Sadly, it also generates a lot of waste because following harvesting, the rest of the coffee pod is discarded. Until now… Coffee flour is the next big leap in agricultural innovation. By using the otherwise unusable parts of the cof

Old is the New, New by Zarmeen Patil, M.S. Biochemistry + Organic Chemistry Wellness and Food Scienc

Denis Burkit, an English doctor stationed in Africa during World War II said, “The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backwards to the diet and lifestyle of our ancestors”. And so today, my friends, I will tell you what I tell most of my clients: Things you already know and need reminding. I will send you the same message 10 different ways, some straight out of my head and other’s borrowed from a great food journalist of our time, Michael Pollan. Food takes up

Want to Boost your Immunity this Fall? – Then Feed Your Gut! By Zarmeen Patil, M.S. Biochemistry + O

The field of Gut Biochemistry is exploding! Did you know that 70% of your immunity depends on the health of your gut? And by that I mean the population of a 100 trillion live bacteria that resides therein. This ecosystem can be grouped three ways; Opportunistic bacteria harm the body and cause disease and inflammation – you don’t want these. Good bacteria work on the keeping the Opportunistic bacteria in check by starving them or killing them directly - we love these guys and

Investing in a Healthier World by Anita Srivastava, CRPS®

The world has a weight problem, and it’s getting worse. A 2014 study in The Lancet from the University of Washington, analyzing data from 188 countries, found that more than 2 billion people are overweight or obese—some 25% more than in 1980[1]. This unhealthy surge illustrates a striking new reality. Changing lifestyles, aging populations, advances in technology and increased international travel make it more likely than ever that the things that cause disease—whether unheal

Dinner at 4pm by Stacey Antine

Dinner at 4:00 pm? Yes, if your kids are starving after-to-school! It’s a new back-to-school season, so it’s a perfect time to create new habits to keep kids happy and healthy. A trend that I’ve been tracking for some time are kids appetites after the school day is over. Many parents complain that their kids are “starving” after-school and then, after a “snack” they continue there ravenous appetites through dinner and up to bed-time. As I explored this situation further,

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