Tag: Healhty Lifestyle napa

Appreciating your shoulders

Throughout our careers, we reserve days of tribute to pay homage to a person or group of people who have positively impacted our lives.  Teacher appreciation day, staff appreciation day, Veteran’s day, Mother’s day, and Father’s day.  These are residing in our calendar to give thanks to our parents, veterans of the military who risked …

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How Does Stretching Make you FEEL?

Flexibility and mobility are terms that contribute to an efficient, pain free, and productive body. Functions such as reaching over the head to acquire objects, bending down to pick objects off the ground, or rotating the torso to get in and out of cars are common movements that require joints to be able to move …

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Healthy Dinners: Electronic Free Meals

Long days at the office require rest and relaxation.  Waking up at the early hours of the morning, commuting to job sites, and devoting energy and time to your trade requires significant psychological, emotional, and physical bandwidth.  As we make the journey home following a productive day, we look forward to seeing the inside of …

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Solving Sciatica Through Exercise

Back pain is no joke.  Limited movement, decreased functionality, and living with pain are just a few negative biproducts back pain imposes upon a person’s life.  Disruptions such as traumatic accidents, overuse, underuse, or injuries, to the structures surrounding the collections of bones comprising our spine, can turn a personal world upside down.  These words …

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Pregnancy and Fitness

Brining another human into this world is a monumental event.  We have the ability to grant the gift of life to a baby allowing them to flourish, thrive, and partake in the wonders offered by the world.  Once we see a newborn baby enter the world, their eyes open for the very first time, their …

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Give Pain Your Full Attention

Hinges, knobs, handles, screws, nuts, and bolts are instruments used throughout our daily lives.  We see them as we open doors to our homes and cars.  Metal hinges held on by screws attaching doors to planks of wood ensure a door operates efficiently.  Handles attached to our kitchen utensil drawers are fastened by screws.  The …

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Exercise to focus on yourself

Many daily obligations require our time, emotions, and energy.  Relationships, jobs, and family can easily occupy a substantial number of hours throughout the day.  We all have twenty-four hours in our day.  The revolutionary finance expert Warren Buffett has the same amount of time in his day as an eighteen-year-old associate starting his first job …

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Healthy Eating: Blood Sugar Crashes

“ Sugar is the devil.”  “I avoid sugar like the plague.”  “Sugar is poison to the body.”  To a degree, most of these statements pose a compelling argument.  However, sugar within our bloodstream is critically important toward the nourishment and functions of the vital organs in our body.  If we lack sugars in our blood, our …

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Posture and Cell Phones

Last week I paid a visit to La Taquiza, my favorite Mexican restaurant in Napa.  Their fish tacos and shrimp burritos remind me of eating fresh sea food by the beach in San Diego.  After a successful work week and a days’ worth of playing pickleball for 6 hours, I felt I could celebrate by …

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A Reminder for Sunny Day Physical Activities

Following the winter solstice a few months ago, we have the privilege to look forward to our longer hours of daylight.  We get to experience the sun illuminating the ground sooner in the day and observe the sunset descends below the horizon later in the evening.  Daylight savings time is a few days away.  The …

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