Just saying

You know the essentials of leading a decent life: Eat healthy and include veggies in your diet, brush your teeth, exercise regularly and be nice to people. But at times and often without your awareness, bad habits in one way or another manage to sneak their way into your lifestyle. By letting go of the following bad behaviors you’ll free up energy, time, mental space and even money that could be better spent on healthier, happier pursuits. This could be your bad-habit spring cleaning. 1. Holding a Grudge Forgive and forget. You may be affected psychologically as well as physically and really stressed up if you are not able to forgive. A study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science, for example, shows that you can lift weight from your shoulders by the simple act of forgiveness. The study showed that that the more forgiving people were, the higher they were able to jump; those who forgave someone who offended them estimated the steepness of a hill lower than t...

Many people stay in abusive relationships in hopes that someday their partner will change. Unfortunately, some of these people continually get battered on a daily basis by their partners even for several years. Others, stay in the relationship for the rest of their lives. Sadly, others lose their lives their violent significant other. The question is if you found yourself in such a relationship, would stay or walk away? My candid advice is to walk away. Your partner can never change. Once they have become violent, they can only get worse. As much as you may love them and cannot imagine a life without them, you should also consider yourself. Such a relationship can only bring grief, emotional turmoil, fear, restlessness and worse still, low self-esteem. An abusive partner will cause you sleepless nights because you are afraid of what they are going to do next, where and how. They earlier you get out of such a relationship, the better. Sticking around will certainly...

Image Source: What to expect Most “modern mothers” nowadays have neglected their natural duty of breastfeeding their new born babies. Some do it out of ignorance while others just don’t care. Unknown to them, they not only deny the child’s right to good and pure health but also miss out on natures chance of staying healthy. There is nothing absolutely wrong with breastfeeding. It is only natural for a mother to give her new born baby the breast milk. God designed it that way.  Ironically, these so called “modern mothers” skip this exercise because they want to remain young and hip. Others even go a step further and refuse to give their babies a chance to a healthy start citing that they will lose shape or figure since “their breasts will be saggy”. This is indeed sad. I can only sympathize with those babies. Nursing promotes bonding between mother and baby and creates a lifelong connection between the two. Additionally, it makes the baby feel loved, comforta...