#booknotes #health #wellness #breathing Most people probably don't give too much thought to their breath. Seems like an automatic thing that happens in order to sustain our life. Just as our heart beats without conscious effort, our breath continues. My mom mentioned this book to me as we took a stroll through Bramber Woods Park on a sunny, summer afternoon in 2021. She told me about a part of the book that said that the breath should be taken through the nose. I remember t

#booknotes #health #keto #glutenfree #wellness This is was one of the books that really sparked my interest in taking deeper dives into health related topics. This book also reminded me that books are a source of immense and concentrated knowledge. Cover to cover, I was completely absorbed. My keto journey lead me to read Grain Brain because I wanted to understand exactly how come my health improved so much by simply changing my diet. In a single sentence, Grain Brain by Dr.

#booknotes #health #wellness #spirituality A Mind of Your Own(2016) is a pretty comprehensive book that dismantles and analyzes depression and offers women various healing modalities so that they can heal their body and reclaim their lives. This book teaches that you can reclaim your health, especially your mental health. Your mental health is not entirely out of your control and you don't have to surrender to taking medication for the rest of your life. The way our healthca

#booknotes #wellness I originally decided to read this book because I thought my Mom was reading it. Turns out she was reading a different book about habits. I've been reading about energies, chakras, neuroscience and general wellness books lately so The Power of Habit was a slight departure from that. I still picked up some useful bits of information that may help me along my journey one day. This book is about habits, why they exist, what their main components are, how to

I've really been enjoying yoga recently. It is really cultivating a connection between my breath, body and mind. A sort of awareness that wasn't there before but has enriched the quality of my being. I made a promise to myself that I am going to do at least 10 minutes of yoga everyday. Some days, I am not going to lie...I just don't feel like doing it. So I end up doing a bedtime flow... something easy. The important thing is that you show up to your yoga mat. One thing that