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June 5, 2025
Shots To Consider Getting…
Vaccines aren’t just for kids; age, lifestyle habits, and travel can make adults vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Protection from childhood vaccines also wears out with time, leaving you vulnerable to serious diseases. The Flu shot When was the last time you thoroughly enjoyed having the flu? The aches, fever, nausea…having the flu isn’t fun. It makes you feel horrible and leads to missing school/ work and expensive medical bills. This is especially true for people with asthma, heart disease or diabetes, pregnant women, very young kids, and the elderly, because they are at a higher risk of developing flu-related complications. One of the best ways to avoid this is to get the flu shot every year, like the CDC recommends. This applies to everyone above 6 months of age. Whooping Cough Vaccine Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes cough and cold-like symptoms. It mainly affects infants who haven’t completed their vaccinations, and teens and adults whose childhood vaccines have worn off. There are two main types of whooping cough vaccines: DTaP, which is given to children below 7 years of age and Tdap, which is given to children above 7 years of age and adults. Any adult who didn’t get the Tdap vaccine as an adolescent should get it once. Note that this also applies to adults who were given the DTaP vaccine as kids. In addition, adults should get the Td (tetanus, diphtheria) booster shot every 10 years. However, pregnant women should get the shot…
How To Know If You’re Happy Or Not
What is happiness? The dictionary says it’s “A state of well-being and contentment.” That’s a good start, but how can you know if you’re happy? What does happiness look like? Although happiness is in the mind of the “beholder,” you’re probably happy when the following things are true about your life: Happiness is more than…
Learn MoreWhat is an Emotional Support Animal & Do You Need One?
An animal can be a good source of comfort and a much-needed physical presence during distressing times. They promote emotional stability by providing companionship and helping remove the focus from everyday challenges. An emotional support animal can be a dog, cat, or even, as shown on Eyewitness News, a pig if it comforts its owner….
Learn More5 Ways To Build Your Child’s Self-Worth
What good parent doesn’t want their kids to be happy and successful? But how do we do that, exactly? We compliment and affirm, support them, tell them to chase their dreams, and teach them to live for something bigger than themselves. What else can we do? According to experts, we should teach them how to be…
Learn MoreHow Simplifying Your Life Makes You Happier
Does modern life’s fast pace and complexity ever feel like too much? Do you ever wish things would slow down long enough for you to jump off the hamster wheel and rest a minute? Maybe it’s time to simplify your life. Maybe it’s time to say, “Enough!” and regain control. Maybe…it’s time to realize that…
Learn MoreHow To End Self-Destructive Behavior
There’s no way of sugar-coating it. To unlock your best life – to be successful and happy – you must learn how to eliminate self-destructive behaviors and replace them with healthy ones. Shame Shame can make eliminating self-destructive behaviors challenging. It’s easy to sink into shame when we mess up. Instead of realizing that we…
Learn MoreThe Top Five Bad Habits You Need To Replace
Want to change your life? Change your habits. To rephrase a popular statement, the habits that got you here won’t get you where you want to go. You change your life when you change your habits. But it isn’t about “breaking” bad habits; it’s about replacing them with good ones. But what if you’re mostly…
Learn MoreHow To Lead A More Fulfilling Life
They tell us: “You deserve to be happy.” They even say that pursuing happiness is our God-given right. But is happiness what we want, or is our soul searching for something deeper? The thing about happiness is that it comes and goes. You can be happy one minute, and the next, you’re down in the…
Learn MoreLife After Divorce: Landing On Your Feet
Divorce is the end of a relationship and the dreams that go along with it. In a divorce, someone leaves, and someone is left. The finality of it all can throw a person into grieving and mourning, even if they want out of the marriage. Knowing the end has come – that it is all…
Learn MoreHow To Use Self-Monitoring To Be Mentally Tough
We need mental toughness today now more than ever, not just to survive but to flourish. Self-monitoring is a kind of self-awareness that develops mental toughness and resilience. What is mental toughness? According to Mental Toughness Inc., “Mental toughness is the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns and circumstances that prevent you from…
Learn More5 Ways To Be More Persuasive!
We all have wants and needs, dreams and desires, and hopes. Sometimes we can achieve them on our own, but we often need the help of others, which requires the fine art of friendly persuasion. People tend to like helping nice, friendly people – people who are caring, selfless, and trustworthy. Those traits can win…
Learn MoreUnlock Your Best Life With Personal Autonomy
Imagine being fully in charge of your life and reaching a level of personal freedom where you only have yourself to answer to. Imagine dreaming, setting, and achieving goals. Being independent and practicing personal autonomy is a dream that few people seem to achieve. But, personal autonomy is more than just focusing on you and…
Learn More4 Best Foods To Eat When You Have The Flu
If you’re coming down with the flu or caring for someone suffering from it, then you’ll know how uncomfortable the whole ordeal is. This post from the CDC explains that the flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by viruses and can lead to fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headaches, and a runny nose. Since patients…
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