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Why Starving Your Way to a Size Zero is Not Helping You
“Maybe, if I don’t eat for one month straight, I could totally rock that bodycon dress at the party”. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Starving our way to a perfect fit every now and then, believing that not eating for long hours is the fastest way to lose that extra inch. Well, sure–it might be. But it is also the fastest way to disturb your body’s metabolism–which could lead to something worse. Nourishment is a complex mechanism, which involves much more than just eating food. It is a combination of your psychological state, situational conditions, and biochemical signals being sent from your brain to your body and vice versa.…
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How to Host your Own Solo Wellness Retreat
Life is stressful. Between work, school, the rain gutter you were supposed to clean last weekend, and the third delayed train this week—we all have increasingly packed schedules with little time to ourselves, little time to just stop and breathe. After a while, the constant movement of it all becomes too much, and we begin to toy with the idea of having an Eat Pray Love moment: casting aside all of our attachments and responsibilities to find peace and quiet at an ashram in India. Sadly, not many of us lead lives that we can just walk away from. But thankfully, a rising alternative to skipping town with Julia Roberts…
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The Work Initiative Network Focus on Mental Health
Serving over 37 thousand people across East Toronto, Woodgreen Community Services has a variety of programs, such as child care assistance, immigration services, and employment resources. The programs fall into a few different sections: Children and Youth, Health and Wellness, Homeward Bound, Seniors, Employment, Housing, and Immigrant Settlement. The Work Initiative Network (WIN) falls into the Health and Wellness section. This program helps people who have dealt with long-term mental health challenges return to the workforce by focusing on employment training. It works on a referral basis, as it is a partnership program with the Michael Garron Hospital, CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), Alternatives, Woodgreen, and Reconnect. WIN works closely…
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The Pursuit of Happiness
How to Keep a Healthy Mind and Spirit in Face of Life’s Challenges By Stephanie Chow Everyone goes through ups and downs, setbacks, and hardships. That’s fact of life. We get dumped, divorced, sick, fired, evicted, rejected, cheated, and bullied; we suffer grief when a loved one dies. Everyone faces personal struggles, and they can have a serious affect on our emotional well-being. So how do we effectively deal with everything that is thrown at us? It’s important to have a healthy body, but sometimes we forget that it’s just as important to keep a healthy mind. By following these helpful tips, you can begin the healing process by turning…
