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Nutritious ingredients and regular meals are essential for physical health, but what and how someone eats can affect their mental health just as much. A healthy relationship with food is a solid foundation for mental wellness. According to Laurie Bell, a registered dietitian at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, “A healthy relationship with food involves accepting all different kinds of food to help feed and nourish your body while enjoying what you eat.” Continue reading … CHICAGO SUN TIMES

These are some of the things we might tell ourselves or hear from others when the topic of self-care arises. But not taking good care of ourselves can leave us feeling unmotivated and burned out. Take vacations, for example. Too few of us take time off, even when we’ve earned it. Americans are half as likely to take vacation in any given week today than we did 40 years ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compared with other…

Sound and vibration have been used by Indigenous cultures in meditative rituals and healing prayers for thousands of years. A healthy human ear can hear sounds at frequencies between 20Hz and 20,000Hz, whereas other animal species such as birds, bees, butterflies, dogs and dolphins can hear wider frequencies and use that power to navigate to source food, sense danger, and mate. Continue reading … ABC