Healthy Chicks in the Community Series: Meet Kristen Reed of Nursing Your Way to Wellness

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New year, new Healthy Chicks in the Community feature, a monthly series highlighting rockstar Girl Bosses doing their thang in the wellness world and beyond!

I’m thrilled to kick off 2020 with Kristen Reed, a Holistic Nurse and Reiki Master sprinkling her healing touch out into the world! I love her holistic approach to nursing — bringing together her love for people and health through Reiki, health and wellness coaching, and self-care.

In this months’s uplifting interview, we chat with Kristen about how she continues to bring holistic modalities into the medical world, her recovery from two back breaks (and a break up), and her love for sumo oranges. I’ll let Kristen take it away from here!

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Kristen Reed, RN, BSN, BA, HN-BC

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS/LINE OF WORK: 

My holistic health business, “Nursing Your Way to Wellness” helps busy women like you find more balance, manage stress, and live their healthiest, happiest lives☀️through Reiki therapy, Health & Wellness Nurse Coaching and wellness workshops!

With 1-on-1 coaching sessions, we work together to help you achieve your optimal health: feeling more balanced, energetic, resilient, and vibrant, with lifelong insights for lasting, powerful change, so that you can do ALL … Read More!

New Year, More Time for You: 7 Wellness Tools to Help You Focus on Yourself in 2020

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Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com.

You probably know by now I’m not really a fan of the whole “New Year, New You” marketing that seems to be everywhere right now. To me, this implies that you need to change something about yourself in order to fit into a certain mold.

With that said, I am a fan of making more time for you. How amazing would that be if instead of trying to “fix” something, we simply focused on taking better care of ourselves?

If your intention/resolution/whatever you want to call is is centered around prioritizing your self-care, this wellness-curated box from BabbleBoxx is for you. Here’s a roundup of 7 tools that can help support your journey — whether you want to make more time for movement or bring mindfulness into the workplace in 2020.

Intention: Make More Time For Movement

Try: AfterShokz headphones by Aeropex

Are you craving more movement in your life? If 2020 is going to be the year you prioritize morning walks, sign up for first 5K or join a run club, you’ll probably want to invest in some quality headphones.

These AfterShokz headphones by Aeropex take your headphone game to … Read More!

10 Wellness Tips for New Moms (From Fellow Mamas)

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Now that I’m approaching the one-year mark into this journey of motherhood (seriously, how?), I’ve been spending some time reflecting on the past year. Along with the joyous memories of baby coos, snuggles and those first giggles — which are seriously heart-melting — I can’t forget those challenging early days.

Being a mom is the most rewarding thing in the world, but taking care of a newborn is no joke!

While I was so overjoyed by my little bundle of joy finally being here in my arms, I was also overwhelmed with feelings of loneliness, confusion, doubt, and yes — sleep deprivation. This post from a week-and-a-half in sums up my feelings perfectly:

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Healthy Chicks in the Community Series: Meet Marybeth Keener of Meadowbrook Estate

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Happy April, beauties! The sun is out, and I’m totally feeling that energy of spring — the lightness, positive changes flowing and sense of life and beauty in nature. How about you?

Anyway, I’m excited to introduce you to this month’s feature on Healthy Chicks in the Community, a series highlighting rockstar Girl Bosses doing their thang in the wellness community. Marybeth Keener is a healthcare practitioner (trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine), wellness enthusiast and Owner of Meadowbrook Estate, a beautiful retreat and event venue nestled in the Connecticut countryside.

In this interview, we chat about stress relief techniques, her eyeopening adventure to China, and why she sees her ADD as a blessing instead of a hindrance. Want more? Marybeth will be hosting an all-inclusive wellness retreat this May with farm-to-table meals, yoga, sound healing, workshops and more!

  

NAME: Marybeth Keener

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS/LINE OF WORK: Owner of Meadowbrook Estate, an elegant retreat and event venue in Connecticut. I’m also the host of Wellness Through Balance Wellness Retreats!

WHERE YOU LIVE: Marlborough, CT

INTENTIONS/GOALS YOU HAVE FOR YOURSELF IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS: Our goal in the next three years is to have Meadowbrook Estate established as a … Read More!

Healthy Chicks in the Community Series: Meet Yoga & Meditation Instructor Lauren Durso

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Hooray, it’s Friday and March 1st! That means spring is coming, right? Good news: it’s actually only 19 days away (not like I’m counting or anything)!

I’m so excited to bring you this month’s spotlight on Healthy Chicks in the Community, a monthly series highlighting rockstar Girl Bosses doing their thang in the wellness world. As a yoga and meditation instructor, Lauren passionately and selflessly shares her gifts with the world through volunteering and her recent work with the Boston VA Healthcare System.

In this interview, we chat about her dream celebrity dinner guest, new career teaching Veterans yoga and her love for her home Tower Garden. I’ll let Lauren take it away from here!

NAME: Lauren Durso

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS/LINE OF WORK: As a Certified 500hr Advanced Yoga & Meditation Instructor, I teach to private clients and group classes at my private home studio in Walpole, MA as well as local studios. My recent career addition is joining the Whole Health Systems team with the Boston VA Healthcare System, working full time teaching Veterans yoga and meditation. I am a Wellnesspreneur, as I also own my own Juice Plus+ franchise educating people about whole food nutrition supplement options … Read More!

3 Ways to Love Yourself More This Valentine’s Day

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With Valentine’s Day a week away, love is in the air. While it’s fine to spoil your kiddos with candied hearts or splurge on a fancy dinner out with your sweetie, what about the love you’re giving yourself? That’s right, self-love baby! Here are three simple ways you can love yourself more starting now:

1. Quit Your Diet

Toss the scale, stop counting calories and look inward. Ask yourself how you want to FEEL. Then rather than focusing on the foods you need to take out, focus on fueling your body. This method is called crowding out; by incorporating more of the nutrient-rich, feel-good stuff, we naturally wean off of the foods that leave us feeling depleted.

What foods energize you? Make you feel vibrant? Fill you up? Prioritize those, but know there’s always room for a slice of pizza, a donut or your fave latte too.

2. Create a Morning or Evening Ritual

How do you start or end your day? If it doesn’t feel good to you, change it up. Bring in feel-good routines like journaling, DIY facials, hot lemon water, affirmation card pulls, a cozy cup of tea, or a juicy book. Here’s an … Read More!

Mother’s Day 2018 Gift Roundup

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Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Today on the blog I’m sharing my 2018 Mother’s Day gift roundup packed with unique, one-of-a-kind gifts for all those special mommas in your life.

Best part? They’re all under $75, ranging from beauty products and jewelry to tea and chocolate!

1. Healthy Chicks Spark Your Bliss Deck, Healthy Chicks, $19.99

I’d be remiss to not include my affirmation card deck, Spark Your Bliss! This practical 36-card deck includes positive affirmations with journaling prompts and action steps to boot. The cards come in a beautiful illustrated mandala tuck box, and are intended to help you set your soul on fire. You can find them on Amazon, and locals can purchase at Juice on Main in Mansfield, MA, An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA, SheBreathe’s in Walpole, MA, or Hair Today Salon in Glastonbury, CT. Go ahead and spread some positivity to your mom BFFs!

2. PeaceFull Gift Set, Organic Bath Co., $57

As a mom-to-be myself, I know how sacred those moments of peace are going to be. I’m in love with this gift set from Organic Bath Co. bringing together two of my favorite products — PeaceFull Body Butter and … Read More!

What Brought Your the Most Joy as a Little Kid? Incorporate Those Things Into Your Life Now!

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Last week when I was chatting with Beth Hopkins of Shamanuti for an article I wrote for Well Insiders, we got to talking about the things that brought us the most joy as a little girl. Beth told the most beautiful story of how at just five years old, her and her cousin would make floral waters to sell to friends of her grandparents and the local community of the Gardener’s Cottage she grew up in. Each year, she’d wait for the violets and lilacs to bloom, since those made the loveliest waters.

Little did she know that years later her passion for hand-crafting floral waters would lead to the start of her business, Shamanuti, which specializes in natural products utilizing plant-based ingredients found in nature.

It’s funny how our passions as a little kid tend to stick with us, and perhaps maybe we should think more often about what made us happy growing up. I too had a similar story as Beth, and was inspired to dig a little deeper last year when gearing up to leave my full-time job.

I vividly remember sitting with my Energy Healer Katie, pouring my heart out to her about feeling … Read More!