Reading Time: 2 minutes With more flexible work and school arrangements, many families are embracing the idea of a “flexcation,” an emerging travel trend where families rent vacation homes later in August, September and October, consider staying longer to mix work and play, and often get better value in high-demand locales.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes From breakfasts to salads, desserts and beyond, fruit is unique in its ability to add both flavor and nutrition to family-favorite dishes
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every day she leaves her house, by herself, and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she spends a couple of hours getting exercise and making friends, and then she takes the bus back home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to the collar.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unity in Motion sees the body as an Energy Field. The framework inside the body suspending us in open movement giving a framework for connection and expansion. And the Energy Field outside the body suspending and supporting us in three-dimensional space.
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CNN: Quarantine fatigue: Why some of us have stopped being vigilant and how to overcome it
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 6 minutes “It’s reflected when we become impatient with warnings, or we don’t believe the warnings to be real or relevant, or we de-emphasize the actual risk,” she added. “And in doing that, we then bend rules or stop safety behaviors like washing hands, wearing masks and social distancing.”
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You do not need to control other people’s behavior to stay healthy.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes You do not need to control other people’s behavior to stay healthy. Good thing, because right now controlling other people is the one thing that none of us have any control over, and of course feeling powerless and vulnerable creates more fear which feeds the cycle that suppress your immune system and actually does put you at more risk.
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NPR: Act Now To Get Ahead Of A Mental Health Crisis, Specialists Advise U.S.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes “The two most replicated, robust factors linked to suicide are economic change — downturn — and social disconnection,” says Dr. Roger McIntyre, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. And both factors, he notes, are major hallmarks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The human immune system holds important clues about how people naturally detect and defend against disease. For COVID-19, many people have been able to defeat the virus because of their natural defense systems. Now researchers are working to learn from these survivors’ immune systems to inform the development of new tests.
Reading Time: 2 minutes We can choose to search for the good in each difficult situation and see things from that view, or we can focus on the negatives and that will become our view.
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‘It Impacts Weight, Sleep and Mental Health’: What You Need to Know About Your Thyroid
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes Thyroid disease is more common than diabetes and heart disease, but more than half of Americans with thyroid disease are unaware, according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). This lack of awareness can endanger a person’s health and well-being.