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Eliminate Anxiety and Stress with a Relaxation Bath

November 1, 2018 ♦

Stress

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All About That Bath! Escaping into a fantastic bath, is all about the details. Everyone can jump in and hop out, but we want our bath to be a beneficial health event with a taste of vacation involved. Magnesium in Epsom salt is beneficial to absorb into the skin. You…

How to Relax Online with Michele the Trainer

March 31, 2016 ♦

Online A La Carte

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Wine and Television are not the best ways to relax. Learning to relax with body and breath can be learned by everyone and will benefit all that learn how. Adding the tool of relaxation to your toolbox will come in handy often in our hectic and unpredictable lives. Relaxation should…

Michele the Trainer’s Smoothies Gone Wild

January 14, 2015 ♦

Food, Michele the Trainer's Recipes

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Don't get sold on some crappy "diet" smoothie. Make your own WILD crazy good organic smoothies! Understanding the differences in smoothies is important. There are smoothies everywhere and while some of them may taste good (hey so does soda, but it doesn't mean it's a good choice) they are not…

Entitled Stress

May 15, 2014 ♦

Stress

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Do entitled people stress you out? Stress is not healthy. On multiple levels, we run across those entitled people here and there. They cut you off on the freeway. They might be right outside the door of your business! Where else to you encounter the entitled? In any situation, let's…

Musical Chair Urgency Starring in, “What if I Can’t Get a Seat!?”

February 7, 2014 ♦

Movement

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Musical Chair Urgency Starring in, "What if I Can't Get a Seat!?" Musical chairs is a festival game starting with X number of chairs and one more person than chairs available. The chairs are often arranged in a circle. Music begins and participants walk the circle when the music goes…

Does Stress Increase Productivity?

September 17, 2013 ♦

Mindset

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Does Stress Increase Productivity? Of course not. Why do we associate relaxation with laziness? Why do we associate mindful relaxation with a lack of productivity? How will we ever be able to decrease stress in our lives without rethinking and re-framing this? Mindful relaxation is not Television watching, Wine or…

Stop Ass Kissers

July 29, 2011 ♦

Stress

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You are not alone!! Let's agree to not feel the stress caused by Ass Kissers. Most engineers are observers. Most engineers are factual and terse. We need to talk about ass kissers and the unnecessary stress they cause observers. I can remember sitting in cube after cube in my career…

OMG I Slipped my own DEADLINE

June 28, 2011 ♦

Parable

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Habits... Funny how missing a deadline will ALWAYS create some built in panic, after years of worshipping the Road Map God (the ever omnipotent Release Date). Michele the Trainer posts on Friday..and OMG it's Tuesday. Breathe Breathe Breathe...it's okay :). Inhale Exhale If we really want to BE the…

Its Not Easy Being Green!

March 17, 2011 ♦

Environment

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Can we really Green up our cube? Did you know that NASA recommends plants for cleaning the air? There are two socially accepted plants for today's workplace based on NASA studies; Bamboo and Spiderplants. This may surprise you but I'm going to recommend having one or two dead plants in…

Please Pay for your Balls

February 19, 2011 ♦

Parable

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Got balls? Not every company has a PA system, and when they do it can be a belly fat producing stress hormone generating tradgedy, or not-so-often, a source of great amusement. I worked at a telecom company that had personal trainers and group exercise classes, free clothing and lots of…