Category: Managing Stress

• Goals and resolutions – how do you want to feel?

  One week into the new year and many of us are well into flexing (and hopefully strengthening) our resolution muscles. Whether you make resolutions, set goals, or dream dreams, odds are you hope for some positive change in 2014, some big or small life tweaks that will make you feel stronger, happier, more confident, and…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  January 5, 2014

  Managing Stress

  Fire Starter Sessions, goals;, inspired living; resolutions;, Personal Challenges, resolutions

• Introducing “Life is Short!” – a new feature post

  I imagine many of you are beginning to think about 2014 and what you’d like for your life in the year ahead. You might be setting goals, pondering what you’d like more of in your life (or less of), planning for the introduction of new habits or the breaking of old habits, or generally spending…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  December 30, 2013

  Managing Stress

  digestive health, happiness, inspired living; resolutions;, Personal Challenges

• Pretty Packages: ideas for eco-friendly gift wrapping

  Images of the holidays often include a bounty of presents under a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The gifts are tastefully wrapped, with colour-coordinated festive paper and impeccably-tied ribbons and bows. What the images never show, however, is the gift-opening aftermath: piles of ripped paper, discarded bows, and torn packaging, all used once and then sent…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  December 14, 2013

  Managing Stress

  DIY, gift tags, gift wrap, holidays, ribbons and bows

• Meaningful Gift Giving: Part Two – Some Ideas

  “Connecting with friends, nurturing intimate relationships, socializing at parties, consuming art, music, and literature, learning new languages and skills, honing talents, and volunteering at our neighbourhood hospital, church, or animal shelter. Tellingly, these are precisely the activities that people on the brink of death…wish they would have spent more time doing in their everyday lives.”…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 30, 2013

  Managing Stress, Self-Love

  acts of kindness, celebrating the holidays, gift giving, gift ideas, holidays, how to be happy, meaningful gift giving, Sonja Lyubomirsky, the myths of happiness

• What’s in a Gift? A Guide to Meaningful Gift Giving

  It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We’ve already had our second snowstorm of the season and it isn’t even December. The first snowstorm left a good several inches of snow on the ground. By comparison, this snowstorm makes the previous snowstorm look like child’s play. This is the real deal.  We’re…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 24, 2013

  Managing Stress

  gift giving, happiness, holidays, winter

• The Challenge: No TV for a week

  This week I am in the midst of a personal challenge: no TV for seven days. To be fair, it’s been several years since I’ve subscribed to cable channels, so in reality I don’t actually watch TV as it is (unless it’s Rookie Blue, in which case I’ve made provisions – namely, watching at my sister’s…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 7, 2013

  Managing Stress

  No TV, Personal Challenges