Posts tagged stress
Focus on 24 Strengths: How can you become more resilient this year?

Our collective resilience is currently being tested on a global scale.

Finding strategies to help you weather the storm within yourself is important.

Resilience is often pictured as someone who is “strong”, “tough” or generally impervious to insults and obstacles. But does being resilient really mean you remain completely unaffected in difficult or traumatic situations? Or does it mean you’re affected by them, but have the resources to keep going?

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Do probiotics improve your mental health?

Do probiotics improve your mental health?

The answer may surprise you.

It’s common knowledge that you should supplement with probiotics if taking an antibiotic, right? Probiotics are recommended to improve a number of symptoms, especially those surrounding gut dysbiosis (an imbalance of good and bad bacteria and other small creatures that live in your gut). You may feel like you are supposed to be on a probiotic for general health and I’ve seen others express guilt if forgetting to take it.

We often think of supplements as harmless at worst and beneficial at best. But is this really the case?

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