Category: happiness

Are You An Emotional Eater?

Understanding why we overeat is an important step on the road to making healthy food choices.  And for many of us, our unhealthy emotions are contributing to our unhealthy eating. It’s called being an emotional eater.  Are you one of…

Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

We all know that in order to be healthy (and happy) we need to get enough sleep. But still, most of us either don’t get enough sleep or our quality of sleep is lacking. Let face it, if you’re a…

Dr. Oz on Oprah: Calorie Restriction Diets

Would you like to live to 100 years and beyond? Dr. Oz and other medical experts believe that a calorie restriction diet can help people to live longer with a higher quality of life. The calorie restriction diet also focuses…

New Study: Reading Is Best To Reduce Stress

I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about today, and then I came across this interesting article on how reading can reduce stress. Since I love to read, and I also love anything that can help me reduce…

Learn How To Reduce Stress With Positive Affirmations

Is stress wearing you down? Are you worried about the bad economy? Your job? The mortgage? Your health? Your family? If so, you are not alone. Life is always changing, and that can feel very stressful. But often, seemingly bad…

You Can Change Your Life By Changing Your Thoughts

A few weeks ago I was flipping through the million channels on my TV trying to find just one thing worth watching (which isn’t an easy task). Luckily I found Dr. Wayne Dyer on PBS. I read my first book…

Can The Movie “Mamma Mia” Relieve Stress?

Can a good movie reduce stress? I’ve always believed that smiling and laughing is healing in some way. And, there is a lot of evidence that supports that theory. I also know that for me, music can deeply affect my…

Movie: Lost Horizon (1937) – The Story of Shangri La

This is a movie I remember watching when I was very young. I always thought it was called Shangri La. Lost Horizon (1937) UPDATE:  Sorry, there doesn’t seem to be a free video anymore. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MOVIE…

Mother Knows Best – Health and Wellness

Mother Knows Best – by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at BlogHer) In honor of Mother’s Day, this is my contribution to BlogHer’s Mother Knows Best series. It seems most of us start off our life blindly believing that our mothers know…