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The basic habits and ideas that help you get started in building good habits. Good places to start when you’re trying to build the good life for yourself.

The Foundations for the Good Life

Mindset Samantha April 28, 2019April 28, 2019 Comments

We all want to live a good life. It is what lies behind our desire for a good job, career, partner, family, home, a place in the world that is our own. We want to…

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Connect

Connect Samantha March 10, 2019July 28, 2019 Comments

The relationships in our lives make our lives better. Having close, positive connections with other people leads to better physical health, better mental health, and a sense of purpose in life.

How To Get Enough Rest So You Can Be Awesome

Rest Samantha December 2, 2018April 28, 2019 1 comment

Rest is one of the 7 Foundations, but back when I first wrote about the Foundations 101 series, I didn’t actually mention it. At that time, I was calling this foundation “Sleep“. Sleep is crucial…

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Sit Less, Move More, and Feel Better Every Day

Move Samantha November 25, 2018April 28, 2019 2 comments

We’ve spent this month on a mini-series of posts all about Move, one of the 7 foundations for the good life. We’re going to close out the mini-series with a post that’s about the opposite,…

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When is the best time to exercise?

Move Samantha November 18, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

This question, “When is the best time to exercise,” is one that I think a lot of people ask. As with most things I talk about, the short answer is, “It depends.” There are a…

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How to get fit (when you hate exercise)

Move Samantha November 11, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

It sometimes feels like either you were blessed with the interests and talents to enjoy working out in the gym or you weren’t. It seems like everyone who’s fit loves to be active, so there’s…

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Intuitive Exercise: What I learned doing yoga daily for 6 months and then stopping

Move Samantha November 4, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

This November, we’re going to be talking about exercise, movement, activity. Last week we talked about intuitive eating. We’ll continue some of that conversation here today with intuitive exercise. The idea is the same, only…

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Intuitive eating: How to learn to trust your intuition again

Eat Samantha October 28, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

I’ve taken October to dive a little deeper into some ideas on the foundational practice ‘Eat‘. Last week we talked about mindful eating. That post is all about a way of eating once the food…

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2 Ways to Practice Mindful Eating

Eat Samantha October 21, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

Today we are going to talk about mindful eating. I have two practices in this post that you can use today to eat more mindfully. Before we get to that, we need to first understand…

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Why emotional eating is a good thing

Eat Samantha October 14, 2018April 28, 2019 Comments

Today I’d like defend emotional eating. We all eat for reasons other than hunger. It might be a daily occurrence, or it might be less often. But we’ve all done it. I could look at…

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