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How to Cope With Infertility

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Acknowledge your feelings.  Anyone experiencing infertility often has a wide array of feelings such as denial, shock, numbness, anger, guilt, and shame. Acknowledging these feelings can help you start to get over them. Giving your feelings the proper attention by acknowledging them and seeking support through friends, family members, and even health professionals can give you power over them and any related situations you may encounter. [1] ·          Remember that your feelings are completely natural. ·          Write down your feelings about your infertility or consider keeping a journal to track your progress or even just give you a private space in which to deal with your feelings. ·          Make sure you don’t hide your feelings from those people with whom you are close. They may find it difficult to understand how you truly feel if you mask it with smiles and “I’m okay.” ·          Avoid forcing yourself to feel a certain way. Instead, welcome any anger or sadnes

How to Live a Long Life

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Prepare your body for a long life by exercising.  Exercise benefits both your physical and mental health. The physical activity strengthens your body, helps you control your weight, and improves your balance and coordination. Simultaneously, your body releases endorphins which will help you relax and feel good. Endorphins can also reduce pain and improve your mood. ·          Try to do both aerobic exercise and strength training. ·          Aerobic exercise gets your heart rate up and improves your endurance. Possible activities include jogging, fast walking, swimming, and many types of sports. Try to do 75 to 150 minutes per week. ·          Strength training, like weight lifting, will improve your bone density and build muscle. Try to do it two times per week. Be proactive about identifying and treating health problems.  Preventative care is important for identifying health problems before they become a major concern. It is also important to identify lifestyle fac

How to Have a Healthy Relationship

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Take responsibility for your own happiness.  Save yourself several hours of arguing by remembering this one rule: it's not up to anyone else to make you happy. In a relationship, your partner will try to please you and make you happy, but in the end, you are responsible for your happiness. Make good on your words.  Follow through on your promises. When you say you're going to do something, do it. Don't say that you'll cook dinner, or get a birthday present, and then blow it off or simply forget about it. What this does is systematically destroy trust. And relationships need trust in order to thrive. ·          If you're bad at remembering things, write it down on a personal planner or calendar, and set up reminders on your phone. ·          Think about what you're saying. If you can't keep your word, don't promise something to your partner when you know you will fail them. Admit your mistakes.  If you know you've done something to h

How to Choose the Healthiest Salad Greens

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Look for low-calorie greens.  If your idea of healthy is synonymous with low in calories, you might choose red leaf lettuce. This lettuce, like all varieties of lettuce, is mostly water. But it has half the calories of an equal serving of romaine lettuce, and about 40% of the calories you’d get in an equal serving of iceberg lettuce. It also has vitamin A and vitamin K in ample amounts. ·          Arugula, likewise, is low in calories and weighs in at just six calories per cup. It also has a variety of nutrients and phytochemicals that could prevent certain types of cancer. ·          Possibly the lowest-calorie salad green is watercress. Watercress is an aquatic plant native to Asia and Europe. It has just four calories per cup. Examine nutrients.  If you’re looking for salad greens packed with vitamins and minerals, you’ll need something more substantial than arugula and iceberg lettuce. Instead, you’ll need to choose spinach. Spinach has lots of vitamin K, C, A, and B

How to Improve Your Sex Life

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Sex is more than a physical release, it is a way to intimately connect with another human. But sometimes distractions can interfere with your ability to connect with your partner. Maybe it's work, school, or kids that dominate your time. Whatever your distraction is, sex is often the thing that gets kicked to the curb in your relationship. You don't have to let life get in the way of having the sex that you want to have, though. Keeping your sex life fresh and exciting is easy if you communicate and make an effort as partners to spice things up and have fun with each other in the bedroom (and elsewhere). Explore your own body.  To feel comfortable and intimate with a partner, feel comfortable and intimate with yourself. This includes being connected to your body and your feelings. [1]  Feel free to experience and express the way you feel. Learn how you like to be touched, what turns you on, and how your body reacts to different stimulus. You can explore your body wi

How to Deal with Sexual Performance Anxiety

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Talk to your partner about your anxieties.  Let your partner know what you're experiencing, and work together to find a way around those problems. ·          Allow yourself to be vulnerable. When you see time and again that your partner does not think less of you in your most vulnerable state, you may begin to build trust in the relationship and confidence in yourself. Trust your partner.  Some health professionals believe sexual performance anxiety may have some roots in social anxiety. All of the thoughts typically associated with sexual performance anxiety, whether of feeling self-conscious or feeling un-masculine/feminine, boil down to a fear of other people's judgment. Though it will take time and effort, counseling for couples or individual counseling may help you let go of your fears about yourself and allow you to trust your partner. Be confident.  Focus on the things you love about yourself and your body. Whether you feel insecure about your weight,

How to Solve Relationship Problems

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Schedule time to just talk.  When problems start, communication often breaks down and you may notice that you and your partner do not talk as much as you used to. To start improving your communication again, try making little appointments to chat about little things. ·          For example, you could set aside 15 minutes per morning to sit and tell each other about your plans for the day. Or, you could give your partner a call on his or her lunch break to check in and see how your partner’s day is going. ·          Scheduling time to talk about relationship problems can be useful as well. By setting a time limit for discussing your problem, you may reduce some of the tension in your relationship and get closer to a solution. For example, you could decide to discuss a specific problem from 7-8pm. ·          Keep these conversations as light as possible and avoid discussing anything that might upset your partner during this time. The goal is to get a rapport going agai