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Habits

Good Habits: Tongue Scraping

You may brush and floss daily, but do you scrape your tongue? Tongue scraping is an ancient Aryuvedic practice, and it is a crucial part of my morning routine as a “preventative lifestyle” habit that compliments brushing, flossing, and oil pulling. Digestion begins in your mouth. You may hear a

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Creativity & 5 Ways To Achieve Flow State
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Creativity & 5 Ways to Achieve Flow State

If you’ve ever studied creativity, you would know creativity happens when you create connections that are normally never correlated. For these wonderful moments of insights to happen, you have to have a calm and clear mind— when your mind isn’t cluttered with thoughts of the past or the future, and

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knowledge is motivation
Habits

6 Ways Healthy Living Can Be Effortless

People think living healthy is hard and restrictive. But I assure you it’s not. It’s much harder living an unhealthy lifestyle where you are tired and cranky all the time. I don’t miss my life before fitness over a decade ago when I also lacked confidence, suffered from anxiety, was

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How to Stay Fit, Lean & Healthy Year-Round
Habits

How to Stay Fit, Lean & Healthy Year-Round

Staying fit, lean, and healthy year round may seem unachievable to so many people because they look health and fitness the wrong way. The media loves to promotes instant gratification such as “how to get a bikini body in 2 weeks” but this leads to a lot of yo-yo dieting, eating

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My Routines
Habits

Setting Your Intentions with a Morning Routine

I am all for spontaneity and was never the one to follow rules but I’ve always realized the importance of having a solid routine right from the moment you wake up, and implementing small daily healthy habits throughout the day. This creates the right mindset and tone for the rest

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K + L 1990
Habits

The Art of Documenting Things

It’s 2019 and I have barely written in my blog since I quit my job 3 years ago and decided to go on a sabbatical. I promised myself I was going to document my journey, but of course, that did not happen (because I was too busy living life). At

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Habits

Habits, Changes & Free Time

Europe, LA, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Vegas, LA, Greece… I am once again back in LA! Perhaps I will get to writing about my trips one day… But in the meantime, last week when we were coming home from Greece and having breakfast in the Philadelphia airport after being forced to

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Fitness

Knowing When To Slow Down

Exercise does amazing things for your mind, body and soul but it’s important to know when to slow down. We all love high intensity workouts and breaking a sweat because it makes us feel good and it burns fat but there is a fine line between training like a beast and

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Fitness

Incorporate Stretching Into Your Routine

You should be treating your body like a temple and one way to do it is to take care of it and let it recover properly… …whether it be eating healthy foods, getting enough sleep or to incorporate stretching into your routine. A problem I have is not having enough

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Motivation

How to Become A Morning Workout Person

I am NOT a morning person. I have no problem staying up until 4am and then sleeping until noon but on the days where I plan to workout in the morning, I have no problem going to bed early and waking up bright and early to the annoying sound of

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