Jeff Anttila Jeff Anttila

17 Tips to Create the Ultimate Sleep Environment

Picture this: Despite your jam-packed schedule, you’ve still reserved enough time to unwind and relax before bed. Your bedroom is cool, calm, and dark, and you’re able to fall asleep and stay asleep without any trouble. The next morning, you manage to wake up before your alarm and feel well-rested, perhaps even energetic, and ready to take on the world. If this sounds like a scenario you can only dream of, you’re not alone – about half of Americans wake up feeling well-rested. We’ve gathered the 17 best tips for creating the ideal sleep environment to improve your quality of sleep so you can (finally) get a good night’s rest.

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Madeleine Taylor Madeleine Taylor

Do Topical Lotions Work as Well as CBD Oil?

CBD-rich salves, balms, and even in cream form aren’t absorbed into the bloodstream, but rather into subcutaneous tissue via pores in the skin. From the balm or topical cream form, the powerful cannabinoids are then able to interact with the relevant receptors found in the skin’s nerve fibers as a great pain management system that will help combat muscle soreness.

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Kim Torres Kim Torres

Buying CBD for the First Time? Read This Guide First

The rise in popularity with regards to CBD products means that every day, new CBD companies are popping up left, right, and center and, unfortunately, many of them offer poor quality oils at extortionate prices. You should always look for the following criteria before making a decision about which brand to purchase.

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Dylan Foster Dylan Foster

Healthy Changes that are Easy to Fit Into Your Lifestyle

The truth is, you don't have to make healthy choices 100 percent of the time and you don't have to change your entire lifestyle overnight. It's more practical to improve your health through sustainable changesthat fit into your lifestyle, because when changes are easy to make, they're easy to commit to.

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Self Care Dylan Foster Self Care Dylan Foster

Self-Care for Your Mental Health: Tips for Getting Started

At this point, you’ve likely heard about the importance of self-care. The real question is, how often do you make a conscious effort to incorporate it into your daily routine? Can you even remember the last time you took time for yourself? Carving out the time for self-care is crucial for your mental health, and there are plenty of ways to go about it.

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Bella Hardy Bella Hardy

How to Find Time for a Soothing & Relaxing Massage

Back in the post-war era, many people could only dream of the free time and devices we enjoy today. From dishwashersto microwaves, on-demand TV, andelectric lawn mowers we have more gadgets than ever which should be creating a utopia of minimal work.

Sadly, the reality is somewhat different.

Not only are many of us working more extendedhours than ever before, but these days it is normal for both partners to be involved in work for much of the week just to pay for the lifestyle we desire.

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Health Allison Bush Health Allison Bush

What Your Feet Say About Your Health

Believe it or not, your feet are a good barometer of your overall health. From a pesky foot pain to more serious symptoms like numbness, your feet often show symptoms of disease before any other part of your body.

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Health, Wellness, Self Care The Barefoot Blog Health, Wellness, Self Care The Barefoot Blog

10 Ways Reflexology Can Help Runners

Running is a great exercise. It is not only an intensive cardiovascular workout but also involves other systems in the body, such as the circulatory, respiratory, endocrine, muscular, and lymphatic. Whether you’re a dedicated marathon runner or someone who only has time for a short jog at the weekend (like me), we’d all like to improve our performance, maybe increase our speed, distance, or stamina and we’d certainly all like to be able to recover from a run quicker, decrease the muscle stiffness and avoid injuries.

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Pregnancy, Health Santa Monica Fertility Pregnancy, Health Santa Monica Fertility

Can Reflexology Improve Fertility?

Anecdotally, reflexology has proven to be a miracle for some women, who swear that it was regular massages that helped them to finally conceive. Many medical doctors, while disagreeing that reflexology might be able to specifically target the internal organs, hormone imbalances, or improperly functioning systems that are contributing to infertility, do agree that helping a women who is TTC to relax and relieve stress is invaluable, and it is this ability to relieve stress that might contribute to a greater chance of conceiving.

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Physical Health Piran Zarifian Physical Health Piran Zarifian

Health Benefits Of Reflexology

Reflexology is a treatment based on the principle that there are areas and points on the feet, hands, and ears that are connected through the nervous system to corresponding parts of the body. When pressure is applied to these areas and points it stimulates the movement of energy along the nerve channels and helps to restore homeostasis balance in the body.

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