Insomnia, whether temporary or long-term plagues many of us. In fact, everyone at some point in their life will have trouble falling and staying asleep. One of the most important elements of a good night’s sleep is the ability of the body and mind to disconnect from the stresses of everyday life. A regular bedtime…
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Wellness for You. Wellness for Community.
Wellness. One of those precious consequences of taking care of yourself. Every person is a unique contribution to the world, but you can’t offer your contribution if you don’t first take care of yourself. Caring for yourself encompasses three main areas: body, mind, and spirit. The body is obvious enough, but consider all the systems…
Rest & Work-Life Balance: A Different Conversation
An overnight snowfall capped autumn’s golden leaves this morning in Colorado, where our company was born. Even as the snow sparkled in the sunshine, dripping and sliding in slushy clumps to the ground, it reminded us that winter is coming. Forgive the Game of Thrones reference. The point is that time is limited, and the…
Vacation, Shmacation: Why Don’t We Take Time Off?
Apparently, the Brits think we Americans have a national vacation problem. A recent article in the Guardian testifies to this, questioning why so many Americans fail to take all—or any—of their vacation days each year, working significantly more days than their counterparts in other countries. This summer, the BBC reported that 40 percent of American…
Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
So we talk a lot about sleep in this blog. But what about other aspects of living well? Food, for example, is a big one for a lot of us. Recently, one of us had a conversation with his wife about this. It was randomly sparked by the sudden, unfortunate need to replace the radiator…
How Sleep Affects Your Love Life
Let’s say you have a hot date tonight. Yay! You’re going out for drinks at some swanky spot downtown. You’re excited…and a tad bit nervous. According to the experts, your dating experience could go very differently, depending on the quality of your sleep the night before! Dating is far from simple, but here’s a deliberately…
The Restfulness of Being Outside
There’s a video circulating these days that we like a lot: a quick glimpse at the childhoods of three generations. It’s a little bit sweet and a little bit sad. The silver-haired folks on the video remembered picking berries, watching things grow, fishing and escaping bears in the woods. The middle-aged fondly recalled building forts…
The Secret to a Long Life: Sleep!
Want to live long and prosper? Well, nerdy Star Trek references aside, you should sleep a lot! Don’t take our word for it: the world’s oldest woman attributes her longevity to getting “lots of sleep”…along with prodigious amounts of bacon eating. Susannah Mushatt Jones just turned 116 on Monday, making her the oldest living human and…
Get Better Sleep this Allergy Season
Spring is in the air and we want breathe it all in—the blossoming trees, the blooming flowers, the pollen….oh, the pollen. Yep- it’s that time of year again. So many of us are sniffling, wheezing, sneezing and just generally miserable—right at the time that the air is growing warmer and the birds are singing and…
New Year’s Resolution: Sleep Well in 2015!
We’ve said it all before, but what better time for a recap than the end of a year? We love this time because it gives us all a reset button. It’s a built-in moment when we pause to consider our lives; what we’re grateful for and what we’d like to change. Not that you can’t…