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Dimensions of Wellness

What My Healthy Mental Health Dimension Looks Like

May 14, 2019
May is Mental Health Month, so all month long here at MMW, I’ll be touching on some of the mental health aspects of wellness. This week’s article may contain triggers for depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. Please keep in mind that this space is meant for kindness and the examples I cite are
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Dimensions of Wellness•Wellness Toolbox•Yoga

Labeling and Counting Breath

May 7, 2019
May is Mental Health Month, and as such all month long here at MMW, we’ll be talking about the mental aspects of wellness. In my last post about using our breath as part of a self care routine, I covered how to observe breath. Just the simple act of tuning in for a few minutes
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Dimensions of Wellness•Nutrition and Eats

Spring Cleaning the Fridge and Pantry

April 30, 2019
Where my Wellness Warriors at? Today I thought I’d talk a bit about cleaning out and restocking the fridge and pantry. This topic provides a veritable smorgasbord (see what I did there?) of wellness goodness. Nutrition? Check. Self care? Check. Mindfulness? Double check.
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Dimensions of Wellness

Book Review – The Pie Life

April 23, 2019
What’s up wellness warriors? I’ve got a little something different for you today. A book review. Yep, like in the fifth grade. Reading is a huge part of who I am. It makes me happy and if I can learn something while doing something I love, even better. Reading, at least in my humble opinion,
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Outfitting a Home Gym – The Middle Ground

April 16, 2019
Welcome to the second of my three part series on outfitting a home gym with different budget parameters in mind. In the first part, we covered how to really trick out a gym space and today we are going to cover some mid-range options for making this space work.
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Dimensions of Wellness•Yoga

Observing Breath

April 9, 2019
Self care. This phrase is getting a lot of play lately, and for good reason. It is good to be reminded that we need to take care of our needs, too. Many different things can fall under the description of self care. And that makes sense, each of us needs a different set of somethings
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Cardio•Planning and Programming•Uncategorized

How to Calculate Your Heart Rate Zones

April 2, 2019
Heart rate is easy to forget about in this world of wearables and fitness trackers. Sure, those devices make it easier to make sure you are checking your heart rate regularly, but as I’ve previously written, it ain’t too hard to do on your own. Something you may not be getting from your fitness tracker,
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Dimensions of Wellness

Links and Loves #3

March 26, 2019
It’s that time again when I share with you the things that I am loving lately or have caught my eye over the last couple of months. As always, nothing sponsored here, just my own enthusiasm.
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Outfitting a Home Gym – The Tricked Out Version

March 19, 2019
Hello friends! I get questions all the time about what type of exercise equipment one should invest in. Even when I worked in fitness centers every day, clients would ask what to have in their homes. There is no one correct answer for those questions as many factors go in to determining what might work
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Dimensions of Wellness•Nutrition and Eats

Counting Calories versus Counting Macros

March 12, 2019
We have been hearing a lot about macros and the benefit to counting and tracking these versus standard calorie tracking. And it looks like this trend might have some staying power. Many of the most popular eating paradigms right now rely on macronutrient tracking. Macro tracking also results in a ton of confusion. So let’s
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