Health + Wellness
Everything you need for a long and healthy life.
Cough Drops that Will Actually Soothe Your Sore Throat
I woke up this morning with a sore throat. I've decided that I'm either sick (my brother is sick) or it's the air quality with all these wildfires going on. As most people do when they're sick, I whined to my mother. My grandma joined in and said she had gotten a box of Lumen'swatermelon cough drops from Family Health Services. Then I realized, when have watermelon flavored cough drops ever helped with a sore throat?
By Kaylee Chaffin7 years ago in Longevity
A Morning Routine to Make the Most of Your Day. Top Story - August 2017.
Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.–Thich Nhat Hanh I used to struggle a lot to wake up in the morning and do something for myself. I would feel like a complete failure every time I snoozed the 5 a.m. alarm. I would look at my phone, turn it off, and go back to sleep. It didn't matter how good the plan was on my notebook or how much advice I had taken from articles or books on "how to be an early riser;" it would not simply work out.
By Vanessa Dias7 years ago in Longevity
The Pursuit of Happiness
Are you happy? With yourself? With what you have? As society progresses, the people living in it seem to believe more and more in an external happiness. A happiness that is in objects and the many physical pleasures of the world. People will often say "I'll be happy when I get a better job." Or "I'll be happy when I find a girlfriend." Only to find out once they have these things that nothing has changed. They find themselves still searching for more, not yet satisfied.
By Justin Henderson7 years ago in Longevity
5 Key Ideas to Be Happy and Successful
I know it's pretty hard to listen to a 19-year-old motivate you. Trust me, I have been working towards a goal for years now and I know a lot of teenagers in my position. People who want more from life and simply need the motivation to get started. So I present the five key ideas I follow so that I can reach the dream life I have been imagining.
By Effy Kitchens7 years ago in Longevity
When Health Care Gets Personal
Since November, I’ve been in a perpetual state of anxiety. I check my Twitter feed ten times a day, and I receive phone notifications from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or the Huffington Post every two minutes. I thought I was managing the daily anxiety-causing onslaught of news until the health care debate started. It’s fair to say that no matter what side of the aisle you’re on, whether you think healthcare is a right or a privilege, we can agree that it’s important. If you’re like me and have a pre-existing condition (some studies estimate up to 50% of the population aged 18-64 do), or you’re in active healthcare treatment, the anxiety can be off-the-charts. And since the health care debate started, my anxiety has been off-the-charts.
By Stephanie Hansen7 years ago in Longevity
Dream Child
Around mid-July I was listening to the radio, just cruising in my red truck, with my radio blasted on an average day to work. My ears were suddenly perked up by a story I began to listen very intently to on WM-PR. This was the story of a woman whose name was Tanya. In my mind I imagined her as woman who had ruffled, short, Jet-black, and spiky hair. She wore a leather jacket and a crop band tee-shirt along with stone-washed, ripped jeans.It wasn't so much the punk-rocker image as much as the angry glare on her face and the craving for darkness that stuck out to me. As she began to evolve to me I fell deeply into her story, I fell in love with this image that so accurately described me seven years ago; I was tough,and I was hardened. My heart was impenetrable and I loved only as deeply as I could feel; which wasn't much more than a paper cut. I became quiet, dark, angry, fiercely introverted and deep into myself. I understood Tanya, and the pain she felt. Tanya had a rough childhood, she had been abused, unloved,and no one could reach beyond the dark tower that she had built around her heart. For a person who loved words and connecting with people, I became the opposite for many years; a person who could only connect with my demons.
By Jordan Sophia Thomas7 years ago in Longevity