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I love all things health and wellness–and by wellness, I mean mind, body, and soul. I’m not an expert by any means, but I do have a lot of opinions–developed through study and personal experience. I share them here. I’d love to learn from your experience as well, so I encourage you to share anything and everything about health and wellness.

What is your why?

February 21, 2017 by Christie Hawkes 12 Comments
Weight Watchers: keep your why close by

Many of you know that I am a lifetime member of Weight Watchers. I lost 25 pounds and have managed to keep it off (give or take five pounds) for more than 10 years now. Here is my observation. Losing weight is exciting—challenging and maddening, yes—but never boring. Maintaining weight, on the other hand, while … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: Aging, goals

Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2017 by Christie Hawkes 18 Comments
Love yourself first

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha It’s Valentine’s Day—the day we celebrate love and, therefore, a most fitting day to revisit the kindness challenge. A couple of weeks ago, we made a list of 10 kind acts we would do for others this winter. Today … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: holidays, kindness

My heroes!

February 7, 2017 by Christie Hawkes 6 Comments
Cheryl Strayed

Now on to this week’s topic: Creating Your Best Life. It’s been a while since we’ve done any of the exercises from this book by Caroline Adams Miller and Dr. Michael B. Frisch, so I thought it was time. Do you have a goal you’re working on? Maybe you set a New Year’s Resolution, and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book recommendations, Health and wellness

Kindness — a cure for the winter blues

January 24, 2017 by Christie Hawkes 9 Comments
Random acts of kindness

If you ask me (and let’s pretend you did), Utah actually has five seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Wonderland, and Winter Blahs. We are now deep in the heart of Winter Blahs—the time of year when it’s easy to get the blues and difficult to get motivated. After years of scientific research (or possibly just … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: joy, kindness, seasons

Friday favorites: life’s little pleasures

January 13, 2017 by Christie Hawkes 4 Comments
10 reasons I love to run

January can be a let-down. The holidays are over. The weather is cold. The days are short. But January is also a time of new beginnings, fresh starts. And life is full of little pleasures. Putting the tree away and cleaning the house after Christmas always feels good to me. The chaos is over. Order is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness, Running, Thank you notes Tagged: family, Friday Favorites, nail art, Weight Watchers

Giving up anxiety as a way of life; cultivating calm

November 8, 2016 by Christie Hawkes 6 Comments
Cultivating calm

In the midst of chaos When the wind is howling, I hear The ancient song Of ones who went before And know that peace will come ~Susan Stauter It’s election day and coincidently the day I was scheduled to write about Brene Brown’s next guidepost—cultivating calm and stillness. Whatever your politics, I have a feeling … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book recommendations, Health and wellness Tagged: mindfulness

Do you ever feel guilty for being happy?

October 25, 2016 by Christie Hawkes 4 Comments
Joy without guilt

Hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sun-shine and rain. -Abraham Lincoln About three months ago, I blogged about the vulnerability of embracing joy due to the fear that it will be more painful later when things inevitably go wrong. I believe we all agreed 🙂 that practicing joy and gratitude actually … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: guilt, joy

Grace under pressure

October 11, 2016 by Christie Hawkes 12 Comments
Grace under pressure

Recently I solicited blog post ideas from you. In response, I received a request to explain how I am able to remain calm and rational in the face of stress and craziness. First of all, thank you, Jessi, for believing I am calm and rational. Feel free to skip to the next paragraph to avoid disillusionment. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: resilience

Cultivating creativity and a give-away for my readers

September 6, 2016 by Christie Hawkes 10 Comments
Cultivating creativity

It’s the day after Labor Day, and therefore, the unofficial beginning of my favorite season—autumn! I love the cool mornings and evenings, the beautiful fall leaves, and all things pumpkin! I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it. ~Lee Maynard While … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book recommendations, Health and wellness Tagged: creativity, seasons

What’s that you say? Learning to listen to my gut.

August 30, 2016 by Christie Hawkes 6 Comments
Learning to listen to my gut

It’s been almost a month since I wrote about intuition. In that time, I have been working on strengthening mine. As you may recall, one of the suggested exercises was to put your question out there; then be quiet, listen, and trust your gut. I thought I’d start with something small like, “What is my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and wellness Tagged: joy, mindfulness, purpose
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