Double Duty: The Challenge and Beauty of Raising Twins
Featured Stories, Health, Parenting
No one is ready for the reality of raising twins. When you get pregnant you have all sorts of doubts, concerns, and lets be honest, absolute freak-outs. Even if a pregnancy was planned, it is still totally terrifying when the pee stick turns…
Now Power: How to Finally Stamp out Smoking Habits
Empowerment, Featured Stories, Health
This is the year you will wrangle your smoking habits. Yes, you. Like so many monumental improvements in your life, it all starts with a desire to make a change. Be honest; you've muttered the words "I can quit anytime I want to." Well anytime,…
Getting your Z's: 8 Ways to Look at How to Sleep Better
Family Health, Health, Slider
Everyone needs to know how to sleep better for the simple reason that we all have sleep problems from time to time. Stress, illness and young kids all conspire to keep us awake when we should be getting restful, restoring sleep. Exactly how…
App-titude: The 10 Best Fitness Apps Right Now
Fitness & Exercise, Health, Slider
It's a new year and it's time to build a better you, starting with your health and some amazing fitness apps that can help you. Time for the good news and the bad news: the bad news is that it will take some work. Nothing worth having comes…
Yes You Can With the Dukan Diet – Why This Diet Seems to Work
Diet & Nutrition, Health
If you’re like most of us around here, you’ve been working hard for years in an attempt to lose the last ten (okay, thirty) pounds. Whether you’re carrying excess weight from pregnancy or stress eating matters not, what’s important…
Home Grown: Fitness DVDs that Actually Work
Featured Stories, Fitness & Exercise, Health
If you thought the rise of fitness apps and online workout videos meant death to the fitness DVD, think again. If you prefer the luxury of exercising in your living room to a TV-sized image of your favorite fitness guru, you've still got plenty…
Ease into Zzzz's: 10 Reasons Why Bedtime Rituals are Great for Getting Baby to Sleep
Health, Parenting, Slider
Getting baby to sleep at—and through—the night is one of the biggest challenges new parents face. Everyone and their mother (and your mother) has advice, plans or the perfect routine for a foolproof bedtime ritual. It's easy to forget…
Dare to be Aware: 8 Mindfulness Exercises to Flex During Your Day
Empowerment, Health, Slider
We dare you to feel and experience this very moment. Disconnect and go inside yourself. Mindfulness exercises such as these are basically the moment-to-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings and this revolutionary new…
Dwell Well: How to Make a Personal Sanctuary out of Small Space Living
Empowerment, Health, Home Decor, Slider
Our home is our palace, no matter what the size challenge. Sometimes, small places are all the more charming and interesting because they give you license for minimalist simplicity, vertical boldness and secret storage places. But first and…