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Author - Tina Hakala

All Essential Oil Companies Are Not Equal

We've talked about essential oils in the past.  I both love and hate that they have become so popular.  I love it because they are powerful, natural ways to enhance your health. I hate it because people aren't educating themselves enough to know how to use them safely. ConsumersAdvocate took the time to independently test several popular brands on the market....

What is “Primary Food” and Why Does it Matter?

When you think about getting healthier, what do you think about? Eating boring, bland food and working out all the time, right?  We think about depravation, disappointment, and most of all hunger.  It's sad and depressing, and it makes any weight loss temporary at best, and doesn't even improve your health. What is Primary Food? Primary food is a combination of several...

Getting Past the “Holiday Funk”

We did it!  We make it through the holidays.  We survived crowds of people, relatives, overeating, sleeping in, drinking fancy holiday drinks, and time off from our normal lives.  It's all so exhausting, isn't it? Now you're probably sitting there wondering where your loosest pair of pants are so you're still able to breath at work on Monday.  Don't be...

Energy 101: What You Need to Know about Energy and How it Affects Your Life

Your vibe attracts your tribe.  We've all heard that, right?  What exactly does it mean?  It could mean that how you outwardly present yourself makes others take notice and potentially approach you.  Like the time I was wearing my baby in a ring sling and another mom struck up a conversation about attachment parenting because I was "wearing the uniform",...

Essential Oils: The Good and the Bad

Everywhere you go, you either see essential oils on the shelves or someone is telling you about them.  It started out with naturalists and hippies (me included!) and migrated to everyone else.  Previously, you could only find essential oils online.  Now you can find them in health food stores, drug stores, grocery stores, and even via in-home parties. Having them...

When Habits Become Addictions

Addictions are tricky business. Many people like referring to addictions as “diseases”, but that doesn’t resonate with me. I believe addictions can cause or contribute to diseases, but I don’t like to call them diseases. Simply put, addictions happen when the ways we self-medicate to cover up a problem get out of hand...when habits become chronic. When things get too...

Managing Chronic Pain

Do you remember when you could pop right out of bed and feel great without any pain?  Neither do I.  As I get older, I find that I have to work hard at managing my pain.  I hear "it's just part of getting older" from a lot of people, especially from people older than I am....people from my parent's generation. ...

Quiet Time: A Luxury or a Necessity?

We all get caught up in the chaos of everyday life.  We rush around trying to juggle work, school, sports, shopping, cleaning, cooking, and everything else that life throws at us. We run ourselves into the ground trying to be everything for everyone else and trying to accomplish as much as we can today so we can try to take a...