Welcome to Part II of The Detox Series: Beauty and Personal Care Products! Now, even if you don't consider yourself to have many personal care products (YES, YOU!), take a minute to think about all of the products that you put on your body daily: soap/body wash, shampoo, conditioner, other hair …
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Welcome to the Detox series! If you missed our introduction to the multi-part series, you can find that here! In this post, we'll be doing a deeper dive into mainstream household cleaning products (spoiler - most of them are FAR from clean), why it matters to know the ingredients, and some …
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Welcome to another multi-part series - this time, our focus is all about DETOXING. Now, before you start visualizing juice cleanses, only eating celery for a week, or sweating out pounds of water - that's not the detox I mean. A lot of what we focus on at GUADS are ways to add in healthy foods or …
In celebration of Black History Month, it seemed fitting to give some resources for audio, video, and works of art created by members of the Black and African American community throughout history. But first, How does this relate back to health and wellbeing? In a nutshell: it comes down to …
A moment of vulnerability and honesty: this time last year was probably the hardest and darkest time in my life - there was an incident that caused my anxiety to spike to an all time high, which meant that eating, sleeping, and focusing on work and school were not only a challenge, they felt …
Last year, GUADS put out an Uplift Podcast episode all about Body Image. Now, I'm not going to give it all away (give it a listen!), but I thought now might be a good time for a post about affirmations. It's normal to occasionally not feel your best, your hottest, your smartest, etc. Ideally these …
Happy New Year's Eve!!!! I love how much hope comes with the turn of the new year; while you can make goals and resolutions at any time throughout the year, there is something about entering a new year with a clean slate, positivity, and motivation. However, unless your goals are realistic and …
It's nearly New Year's Eve! Now that the excitement and chaos of the holidays are almostttt over, it's time to get back into the swing of things. Even though the New Year doesn't actually mean a new start, it is a symbol of change. That's why so many people try to "reset" some of their bad …
