How much does sleep, or the lack of, really impact our day to day lives? According to research, sleep has a tremendous effect on our health and quality of life. 13 Effects of Sleep Deprivation: Weight Gain & Obesity – A chronic lack of sleep alters many hormones in the blood that control appetite and weight gain. The hormone cortisol is elevated when our sleep is poor. High cortisol increases cravings for high-fat “comfort” foods. Cortisol causes systemic inflammation which makes you hold onto the weight (as a survival strategy), so it is extremely difficult to lose weight when your inflammation levels are high. When you are deprived of sleep the hormone ghrelin (your appetite-promoting h
Vision Boards or Dream Boards have become very popular. Creating a vision board involves putting images on a board (such as a poster board) of what you would like in your life. These can be pictures of your dream job, locations of the world you would like to travel to, personal goals that you would like to accomplish, new skills you would like to develop, health and fitness goals, recreational activities, creative endeavors, relationships to cultivate or prioritize (family, friends, romance), possessions and finances that you would like to have. On your board, you can also put feelings or a state of being you would like to consistently have in your life. You can include phrases or words th
