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Create Comforting Aromas for the Home

Create soothing aromas for your home with natural ingredients you probably have on hand.

Boost Your Immune System

Protect yourself this winter. Boost your immune system and stay healthy during cold and flu season.

The Best Ways to Manage Stress

Stress is pervasive. It effects absolutely everyone, knowing no boundaries. While a small amount of stress can actually motivate you to take positive action in your life, too much stress can weigh on

How to Make Any Day Amazing

Isn’t it wonderful when you wake up with that feeling of everything going your way? The alarm doesn’t startle you awake, the sun isn’t glaring in your eyes, your morning coffee is just as you like it

Staying Motivated through it All

It isn’t always easy to stay motivated. Life has a way of throwing curve balls at you when you least expect them—not to mention are least prepared for them. When you are participating in any sort of w

What to Eat in 2016: New Dietary Guidelines Focus on Sugar

It is no secret that sugar isn’t the healthiest food out there. In fact, in recent years there has been an overwhelming amount of evidence that sugar is actually a leading factor in the rise in obesit

Learning to Manage Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic health condition, meaning that it is something that many people will struggle with over the course of several years—potentially even for the majority of their lives. Your functio

Build Energy with a Better Mood

Everyone has those days when nothing seems to go right. Everything is frustrating, nothing is as it should be and the world seems like a big disparaging place. It’s amazing how the state of our mind c

Sugar on the Mind

Sugar has been a hot topic in the past five years, mainly as a result of an outpouring of medical research regarding how sugar influences the brain. According to these studies, sugar is addictive, it

Good Energy or Bad Energy?

Here’s a little riddle for you: what quickly passes away over the course of each day, that crucial element of life that we all wish we had more of?

3 Energy Boosting Tips

The afternoon energy slump is a common problem. By 3 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon, you feel like you need a nap, but you still have several hours in the day that require you to be at your best.

Success Strategies from Winning Losers

If you want to know how to lose weight and keep it off, why not ask 5000 people who have maintained at least 30lbs of weight loss for over 12 months? Since 1994, Rena Wing, Ph.D. and James O. Hill, P

Elimination Diet to Remove Toxins

One of the simplest yet truest health-related aphorisms is this: “You are what you eat.” Quite simply, every food or beverage you consume has an effect on your body and your health, and every day, you

Strike a Pose—Why Yoga is a Good Idea

Yoga focuses on slow movements and deep, calming breathing, and because of this, it can calm the mind, improve mood and leave you feeling mentally reinvigorated.

Be Anti-Stress during Anti-Aging Therapy

Though stress isn’t something that can ever be eliminated entirely, stress reduction can be a valuable part of improving your health during anti-aging treatment.

Five Ways Stress Speeds Up Time

Stress can disturb your health, ultimately causing many problems of aging to grow more severe and appear at a younger age. Here are five ways that stress can impact the way you age.

Yoga Provides Mental and Physical Benefits

For many people, yoga isn’t just a workout—it’s a way to feel and look younger for life. If you’ve never tried it, your anti-aging program may be the perfect time to start.

Preserve Your Memory during Anti-Aging Therapy

Memory changes can be frustrating during menopause or andropause, but there are many things you can do to preserve your mental acuity.

Using Fitness to Unwind

Absolutely everyone is exposed to stress, but we all handle it in different ways. Before reaching for a snack to calm those nerves, try going for a walk.

When Depression Gets Worse

Behavioral therapy and stress management are often the first line of treatment for depression, but it isn’t always possible for a person to overcome depression immediately during treatment. Unfortunat

Increased Stress Levels Causing Spurt of Health Problems

As a culture, Americans are more stressed out than ever before. Some experts have gone so far as to refer to anxiety as an epidemic in the United States.

Revitalize Your Spirit, Volunteer

Aging is inevitable. With each passing minute, day and week we all age in many different ways. Some of us grow wiser and stronger while others of us grow more tired and less motivated. Aging shouldn’t

Save Your Skin This Summer

Summertime is finally in full swing and as Rochester residents have already seen, it’s going to be a hot one.

Man’s Best Co-worker?

A large component of your medical weight loss program is learning to manage your stress. Think about it—after a long day at the office with a nagging co-worker, it can be very hard to find the energy

The Grass-fed Moo-vement

As summer starts to heat up, few things get the average American’s mouth watering like a nice, juicy burger sizzling on the grill. However, not all burgers are created equal. Recent talk about pink sl

Are You Absorbing Stress?

If you are battling a stress disorder in Rochester, then you can understand the importance of identifying anxiety triggers.

Increase Your Workplace Well-Being

Use these four Zen workplace tricks to boost your well-being and end your day on a calm and stress-free note.

Breaking Bad Habits

Habits can be good or bad. Good habits improve a person’s life, like learning how to drive without thinking of all the complex details of how to operate it on a busy road. Conversely, bad habits can r

Decrease Stress with Laughter

Managing Stress with an Anti-Anxiety Diet

Stop Holding Back

Tai Chi can Improve Heart Health

Eat Mindfully to Cope with Stress

Tips for Overcoming Anxiety

Exercise Benefits the Mind and Body

Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Stress Management

Tips for Managing Anxiety

PTSD and Anxiety May Cause Panic Attacks

Exercise to Reduce Anxiety

Benefits of Aerobic Activity on the Brain

Anxiety: Symptoms, Treatment, and Alternative Therapy

Common symptoms of anxiety include fast heartbeat, palpitations, dizziness, impaired concentration, sleeping difficulty, irritability, trembling, abnormal breathing, sweating, and fatigue.

PTSD and Heart Disease

Fight Holiday Depression by Preventing it from Taking Over Your Life

The month-long winter holiday season starts on Thanksgiving Day and goes through New Years day. All the chaos, stress and demands put on a person during this time increases the risk of developing Holi

Do You Suffer from Anxiety?

To experience some amount of anxiety is perfectly normal. On your way to a job interview, when meeting new people, or before speaking in public, it’s normal to feel anxious. But if you feel anxious ev

Pilates Breathing for Relaxation and Health

Relieving tension, maximizing elimination of toxins from the lungs and body, and massaging the internal organs are all benefits attributed to Pilates breathing techniques.

Food and Diet Tips for People with Depression

While eating certain foods can’t cure depression, there are dietary changes you can make that can help. Incorporating the right foods and eating habits into your overall treatment plan can help you fi

Simple Tips For Good Health and Proper Nutrition

They say living well is the best revenge. Use these simple tips to live well, feel better, and look younger.

Don’t Stress Over Organic Eating

If an exclusively organic diet is not in your budget, don’t stress. There are ways for you to stretch your dollar, buy organic when it matters most, and still eat healthy.

Healthy Foods That Help You Relax Naturally

If you are what you eat, is it possible to eat your way to a less stressful life? Maybe.

How Much Water Should You Drink Every Day?

Determining how much water you should drink each day to achieve maximum health benefits may not be as simple as you think. Your need for water depends on a variety of factors, including your level of

Normal Stress or Anxiety?

Anxiety is something we all experience at one time or another, but how can you know when it is more than normal concern? While being worried about something that causes you stress can be a normal reac

Dual-Brain Psychology

Dual-Brain Psychology (DBP) is a revolutionary, brain-based approach to understanding and treating human behavior. Developed by Fredric Schiffer, M.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Don’t let the name intimidate you; EMDR is an effective treatment for traumatic memories that cause the symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Two controversial and closely related therapies, TFT and EFT are scorned and revered equally by professionals in the mental health field. Lacking few if any valid studies, these therapies are at times

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy seeks to help an individual identify dysfunctional thought patterns, assess the pattern for both its validity and lack of validity, and then creates a more “balanced” and modified th