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Hot Flashes and Exercise

Hot Flashes and Exercise

Hot flashes are no fun. Does exercise really help reduce hot flashes? Read on to learn how and why and the benefits of moving in a body transitioning through menopause.

I LOVE Fellow Nurses

I LOVE Fellow Nurses

nursestalking is a YouTube channel where Nurses discuss so many things about Nursing, our profession, our work and more. Dale Barzey-Pond is the host, and she wants everyone to know that Nurses are far more than just people in scrub suits. Learn some of the reasons I love fellow Nurses in this blog.

Top 3 habits to practice at home to promote positive aging

Top 3 habits to practice at home to promote positive aging

Creating a Positive Environment at Home: Tips from the Experts. The question they posed to me was, what are your top 3 habits to practice at home to promote positive aging? I sat with this question for a few days thinking… and thinking…and thinking… Positive aging is a big job, right? How do I sift it all down to 3 habits one could explore while at home?

After much contemplation, the following three are what I came up with.

Inspiring Mindfulness in Your Home Design and Décor

Inspiring Mindfulness in Your Home Design and Décor

Read some cool mindfulness expert tips on how to inspire mindfulness in your home featured on Redfin’s blog.

When we can gently remind ourselves, that our homes can create a connection back to being mindful, simply by creating spaces, or setting out intentional objects to focus on when we get distracted, we can more easily reconnect to the present and become mindful.

Chair Yoga for Stability

Chair Yoga for Stability

Seated, or Chair Yoga is great for creating your base of stability.

Since you are seated in a chair, you feel supported because your strong buttocks and legs are on the seat of the chair. Your feet are grounded onto the earth, and you feel balanced and secure.

Sleep Appreciation Mindfulness Practice

Sleep Appreciation Mindfulness Practice

This recorded Sleep Appreciation Mindfulness Practice is one tool to help you find peace, calm and relaxation by focusing on my words and creating ease and a restful bedtime environment. Narrated by Nicole Vienneau from Blue Monarch Health, PLLC.

Getting Better at Feeling and Noticing Mindfulness Practice

Getting Better at Feeling and Noticing Mindfulness Practice

A recorded mindfulness practice lead by Nicole Vienneau from Blue Monarch Health, PLLC is aimed at reconnecting you to your breath, and to the sensations within your body. It is time to reconnect to you.

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad Recipe and how too! A fresh, easy, fragrant and nutritious choice inspired by Little Roots Ranch Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) harvest.

Moving Meditation for Building Resilience

Moving Meditation for Building Resilience

A moving meditation helps you connect to the strength, power, fluidity, softness, ease or all the other sensations in your unique body.

It is so important for you to come together with your physical body, your spirit, your mind, your emotions and your community to connect back to you and your authentic reality.

Why Did the Orange Stop?

Why Did the Orange Stop?

I often recall this surprising twist to a ‘normal’ day as an ICU Nurse, because sometimes I feel like the orange… like I have run out of juice. But then somehow, my heart opens up again to receive the joys of the day, even if it may appear it is not responding.

Functional Aging is Yours

Functional Aging is Yours

To me, functional aging means soaring gracefully through the inevitable ebb and flow of age. No one will remain ‘young’ forever, yet there is magic in aging gracefully, maintaining your function, strength, energy, mobility, cognition, power, balance, vitality and health throughout the trajectory of life.

Functional Aging means you get to choose what you want, when you want it, with who you want to do it, and how you want to do it! And, you can choose to have someone to support you along your journey!

NursePreneurs Podcast

NursePreneurs Podcast

It was such an honor to chat with Catie Harris, PhD, MBA, RN, Founder and CEO of NursePrenuers to share a little bit about what I do and the vision of Nurse Coaching through Blue Monarch Health.