This month’s wellness topic is Movement. Physical activity, or Vitamin “M” is essential to our overall wellbeing. While critical, movement is more than just your daily workout. In fact, the smaller movements throughout the day are just as important to your wellness and longevity. Here are 5 ways movement is beneficial followed by ways to...
Introducing How To Thrive During COVID-19! I created this course for my clients to help them address the overwhelm in their lives from the unprecedented disruption to their daily lives from this global pandemic. For the first time, I am not making this course broadly available to help women like you. It’s been a challenge...
April is Stress Awareness Month. April is also when taxes are due. Additionally, April is also Financial Literacy Month. This is no coincidence. As such, Financial wellness can enhance our overall well-being. Therefore, Self-care must include financial care. Financial Care is Self-Care As it relates to self-care and well-being, we know that stress, and our...
April is Stress Awareness Month. I don’t think anyone actually needs awareness about their stress levels. I sure didn’t. What perhaps people need is in some respects an understanding how to manage stress and how to stress better. I love this quote, especially because this is from 1884. The notion of stress and increasingly...
I love a thorough house cleaning. I find it very therapeutic. But maybe more than the cleaning itself, I love a good purge, which I have written about in the Zen of Decluttering. I feel like spring just amplifies the energy of a cleaning and purge, but when spring aligns with a new moon, you...
September is Self-Care Awareness Month and I recently attended a self-care discussion. Quite early into the discussion one of the presenters mentioned getting a manicure and then immediately said, “You think a manicure is self-care, but it’s not.” In that moment I suddenly found myself in a bit of an existential self-care crisis, questioning...
Layers, we all have them. Whether its fashion, depth and emotions, or the proverbial onion, and even in spa-ing. The concept of layering really came to me over decade ago. My friend and neighbor Mary Anne, had just come back from some spa time at David J. Witchell in Newtown, PA (review coming soon). There,...
Who doesn’t love a good cupcake or even birthday cake? Seriously, I can’t resist. But birthday cake or even cupcakes don’t seem so spa-like, right? Maybe, maybe not. I am the type of gal who doesn’t believe in working on my birthday. Its not that I expect my birthday to be a national holiday,...
I was in Miami recently for a gathering of Health Coaches from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. It had been a #goal of mine to stay at the Betsy Hotel, since well, my name is Betsy. You don’t come across too many Betsy’s, so it’s always fun to see something so beloved that’s also named...
Not long ago we had a Super Blue Moon. There is something awe-inspiring about a large full moon, and the rarity of a “Blue Moon.” We know that the moon and its cycles have a powerful effect on the oceans and tides. We ourselves are connected to this powerful energy. We feel...
