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What's the Best Way to Boost Your Mood?

by Heather Long

Easy answer: exercise. That's almost too easy, right? But here's the thing, exercise is a great mood booster and it helps you to relieve stress, tension and excess energy - but at the same time, it boosts your energy levels.

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Friday Fitness Funnies: Strengthen Your Funny Bone

by Heather Long

Good morning and TGIF! It seems like Friday is coming around faster and faster. In some ways, that's great because Friday means the start of the weekend. However, for a lot of us, Friday also means the start of the weekend hustle.

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Mental Health Day

by Heather Long

Yesterday, I got up and got started on my day as I normally do. But as I dove into the writing for the day, I recognized the fact that I wasn't really getting a great deal done. I was having a hard time really stringing two or three thoughts together in a row.

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Mental Health Day

by Heather Long

Yesterday, I got up and got started on my day as I normally do. But as I dove into the writing for the day, I recognized the fact that I wasn't really getting a great deal done. I was having a hard time really stringing two or three thoughts together in a row.

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Brain Fitness: Mental Aerobics

by Heather Long

I've been talking about Brain Fitness here in the Fitness blog and today, I want to share with you some mental aerobics that you can do in order to warm-up or refresh your mental muscles.

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Friday Fitness Funnies: Laughter Does a Brain Good

by Heather Long

I like to go and look up Fitness funnies every Friday and I try to populate this blog with humorous stories now and then. As it turns out, my reasoning was that humor does a body good, but what humor does the mind good.

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Raspberry Water - A Cool and Refreshing Alternative

by Heather Long

Do you drink the recommended 6 to 8 glasses of water a day? Do you drink a half-ounce of water per pound of body weight? Do you look at water and wrinkle your nose because water treatment has long since removed the refreshing taste of water for you?

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Hot Summer Friday Fitness Funnies

by Heather Long

Man is it hot in August! People say that every year and for some reason, when August rolls back around - we're amazed by how hot it once again is.

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Kick the Back to School Stress: 5 Stress Busters

by Heather Long

As well documented here, my daughter started kindergarten yesterday, but for many parts of the country, back to school doesn't begin until the next three weeks.

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Bring on the Funny in the Fitness

by Heather Long

Happy First Friday of August and for many, the last Friday before school starts off again. For many local schools in my area, school goes back into session next Wednesday and Thursday with the rest following promptly on Monday August 14th.

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