Age really is just a number—and just because you’re getting older doesn’t mean you have to submit to the message society tells us about aging.
Our bodies do age, but our habits change as well. Staying young in your body will help you stay young in your spirit and mindset as well. I have five tips to help you stay young in your body and keep your strength and mobility up as you get older.
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Dana Hutchinson is a medical and Chinese herbalist and flower essence practitioner. When she was dealing with her own health issues, Western medicine didn’t help solve her problem, so she began searching for alternative medicine practices and came across a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. He looked not at her symptoms but at her whole body, and he was able to assess the root cause of her conditions and show her how to treat them—and she was hooked.
After this experience, Dana did all she could to gather up skills as an herbalist. She believes that we are in the midst of an autoimmune epidemic and that our stress-evoking society is only going to make things worse. If we can’t clear the stress, how can we help our bodies to at least adapt better to it?
For managing stress in your own life, even if you aren’t dealing with an autoimmune disease, you can always start with yoga and breathing. Before even reaching herbs as an option, look at your sleep, your diet, and how your stress presents itself in your life. And absolutely imperative is healing the gut because most people in this day and age have issues with their gut health. A few basic herbs you can start with at home are plantain/Plantago, calendula, Matricaria (chamomile), dandelion root, or Arctium. These are 101-level herbs that most people should have access to. For anything more, you should really see an herbalist to help guide the types of herbs as well as the quantity for safety and effectiveness.
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Sometimes it’s hard to feel motivated—especially during times like these where everything can feel a bit dim. But we all have this fire within us that can transform us if we just learn to tap into it.
In the chakra world, it’s located in our solar plexus and it affects how we present ourselves in the world, what inspires us, drives us, and transforms us. And when the energy around us gets chaotic, it can dampen our own energy. So let’s get back in touch with that fire.
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Sylvia Nasser is a self-employed personal trainer—and much more! She had a summer job at a gym, partially to get a free membership, until one day her boss gave her a surprise audition to lead a class. She never thought of herself as being an instructor, but she quickly fell in love with it.
While working to build her business and brand, Sylvia became very early to the live streaming game—and it caused her business to grow quickly, and she had to hire on trainers to meet all of the demand she was faced with. She felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way because she was the face of the brand, which led to some serious body dysmorphia. Along with that, the pressure to make her business work, and planning her wedding, her health really started to decline. When her daughter was born and eventually diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, she was in a state of complete depression. She stressed her body out so much that she triggered a lupus reaction in her body.
One day she had an a-ha moment. She still struggled with feelings of insecurity with her body. She was at the gym with a friend and everyone—including her friend—were rocking their sports bras. And they all looked good! Nobody was ashamed, they all looked and felt confident and powerful. So Sylvia was filled with confidence too, and she took off her tank top and worked out. That one moment gave her so much freedom that she knew she had to make it a thing, and she started the #IRockTheSportsBra hashtag, which turned into a movement. Now she tries to inspire others, not through macro counts and diet plans, but with confidence and strength of character.
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In these strange and difficult times, there is going to be a lot going through our heads. So I want to share five things that you might need to hear that I hope will leave you with a sense of motivation or ease—or just a sense of peace. Take these as reminders of the truths that we sometimes forget when things get hard.
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Content warning: sexual assault
Decades before sexual harassment cases were on the cover of every major media publication, Mike Domitrz was being brought in by leading educational institutions and the U.S. military to help them pursue a new standard of consent and respect. Mike has three books, an award-winning DVD, and he is one of the world’s leading influencers and thought leaders on the topic of respect.
When he heard that his sister had been sexually assaulted, he felt broken, like something was missing. He didn’t know what to do until he heard a speaker and realized, “I could do something about this.” People don’t want to be told what they can’t do, they want to be told what they can do. So he founded the Center for Respect to proactively build a culture of respect — sexually, intimately, in the workplace, and in the home.
We need to focus on all of the conditioning and behavior that we’ve been taught and unlearn what we can—while teaching a new generation the right way to respect each other.
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