It’s expensive eating healthy! I often hear from this family and friends alike.  While I won’t disagree, I only need to remind myself that it is more expensive to deal with the diagnosis of chronic disease for the rest of my life. While food budgets may have tightened down during the pandemic and regularly purchased

It’s clear that having meaning in your life is imperative if you’re going to be happy. For instance, yesterday I had an interesting conversation with one of our Team Members at Thriveology. The conversation started when she mentioned that she was on “Spring Break” this week (she’s a senior in high school). Now, I put

Now, more than ever, you need to pay attention to how well your immune system is functioning. We know the things we need to do in order to reduce our risk of getting sick. However, it usually takes a drastic change (such as a pandemic) to shift us into action.   To help move you

If you’re an athlete in this day and age, training is an integral part of your life. Not only are you asked to perfect your sport-specific skills through practice (BTW, practice makes permanent, not perfect…article to come soon), you also have to develop the abilities within those skills to become the best basketball player, football

Sleep is one of the most overlooked factors to improve when it comes to better health. You’ve been told more than once that, for optimal rest, you should get 8 hours of sleep. However, this number is truly arbitrary. And while it does make sense for most of us to try to get between 7

As we get deeper into the 21st century, we’re continuing to see more opportunities pop up for exercise selection. At this point, if you don’t know exercise is good for your health, you’ve been living in a rabbit hole. But, even with abundant options, is exercise really enough to help us overcome our mostly sedentary lifestyles??

If there were one general theme that comes into focus as we get older when it comes to our health, it would be “the metabolism”. And, as a Thrive Coach, it’s normal to hear things like “I’m old so my metabolism is slower” or “how do I speed my metabolism up” or “my metabolism is

Recently, I wrote an article on the impact that stress has on the body if it is let to run rampant. As a quick review, chronic overstress leads to being in a sympathetic state over time. This causes all kinds of issues such as high cortisol, increased inflammation, and weight gain. Being in this state

Last week you were introduced to the first obstacle that gets in the way of achieving your health & fitness goals (check out Part 1 HERE). As a quick refresher, the answer is “Getting (re)started”. Whether this is your first time tackling fitness or 5th attempt, as simple as it sounds, getting started is a big