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health & happiness

Autumn Wellness Tips to Keep You Healthy This Fall

The transition to the shorter and busier days of fall can be nourished. Whether you add some coconut oil to your
a challenge. To help ease the change, here are some of oatmeal, add ghee (butter) to your morning coffee, or
the tips to get you ready for the colder months and keep massage your body with sesame oil, it is especially important
your health in check. to keep your body fed and moisturized with healthy fats

• Start taking a Vitamin D supplement. We get most of our • Practice relaxation techniques. After busy springs and
Vitamin D from the sun, so our intake decreases when the summers, our bodies are naturally slowing down. With less
weather is colder since we spend most of our time inside activity and more hours spent indoors, learning to manage
during the fall/winter seasons. If you find you are not getting stress helps avoid cabin fever by going within to find peace
outside much, a Vitamin D supplement can boost your mood and purpose. Make a habit of bringing calm, soothing energy
and immune system to your day, such as running a hot herbal bath, practicing
meditation, or brewing a relaxing cup of Cinnamon tea
• Nourish with seasonal foods, spices and medicinal
herbs. This is the time to warm our bodies with immune
supporting broths and soups, and grounding vegetables like
roasted squash, roots and sautéed dark leafy greens. Some
of our favorite seasonal plant allies, like turmeric and ginger,
may already be in your pantry in the form of ground spices or
teas. Use these fall darlings to make your own spice blends

• Embrace healthy fats like grass fed butter, coconut oil,
olive oil and sesame seed oil. Healthy fats are a must for our
bodies to promote cardiovascular health and keep our bodies

I-read

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

by Nir Eyal
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without
but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. letting it get the best of us.
Later, as you’re about to get back to work, a colleague taps
you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:
way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, • Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional
and once again, your most important personal and company culture and how to fix it
professional goals are put on hold. • What really drives human behavior
and why “time management is
What would be possible if you followed through on your pain management”
best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could • Why your relationships depend
stay focused? What if you had the power to become on you becoming indistractable
“indistractable?” • How to raise indistractable
children in an increasingly
International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, distracting world
and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley’s
handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years Empowering and optimistic,
after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction’s Achilles’ Indistractable provides
heel in his groundbreaking new book. In Indistractable, Eyal practical, novel
reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He techniques to control
describes why solving the problem is not as simple as your time and attention
swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often helping you live the life
makes us want more. you really want.
Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you
will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable

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