How Nature Can Help Heal Mental Health
Documentaries and memoirs show how physical activity outdoors can be a form of therapy and recovery from trauma and difficult life periods.
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5 Ways To Preserve Mental Health During Winter
Defeat the winter blues and help maintain year-round mental health maintenance with these 5 ways to boost your mood during dark, cold months.
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3 Steps For Healthy and Balanced Goal-Setting
Three key questions to guide self-reflection for improving wellness and to help align priorities and set goals that enhance life balance.
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5 Tips for Healthier Kids
Ideas and strategies to help parents work toward better health and wellbeing for their children as well as the entire family.
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Wild Herbal Harvests to Improve Your Health
After a long winter, the lushness of late spring has arrived, and it is breathtaking here in the Pacific Northwest. The leaves of plants are fully grown, flowers abound, and the rapid growth is astounding. Where snow, dirt, dead sticks and leaves rested, there is now flamboyant beauty and plant medicine. As we swap jackets
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It Takes a Village to Keep Endurance Athletes Healthy
Spend much time with an endurance athlete, and two things will likely happen: They’ll attempt to talk you into signing up for a race, and they’ll tell you about their sports-related injuries. Athletes develop a bag of tricks for injury prevention and recovery: foam and stick rollers, stretching, kinesiology tape, R.I.C.E. (rest, ice, compression, elevation),
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Why Kids Need Summer Camp More Than Ever
Youth camps and high adventure recreation can help improve the mental health and well-being of today’s Pandemic Generation.
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6 Ways To Beat the Winter Blues
Mitigate the winter blues and darker, gloomy weather days in the Northwest, with these 6 strategies for improving physical and mental health.
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The Gut of the Matter
Making sense of gut health and why it matters Of all the love poems ever written, they all seemed to focus on the heart, as if this singular organ was more than a glorified pump. Even Rumi failed to get lyrical about the intestines, despite their sinewy silken lining, their miraculous membranes of blood vessels,
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Think Spring
4 Hikes in Local Natural areas By Olivia Dugenet Cover photo courtesy of Kanisku Land Trust They don’t call it spring fever for nothing. When the big, dark Inland Northwest winter finally melts away and the whole world is green and growing, anything seems possible. Every step outside into the sweet, mild air feels like