I’ve spent a lifetime gathering information and cultivating practices that support a healthy lifestyle and keep my mind, body, and spirit balanced. There’s a LOT of information out there, some more helpful than others. Here’s a curated list of healthy lifestyle resources I’ve found consistently relevant and useful for living with intentional wellness.
Check them out to find more motivation, inspiration and information to develop a healthy lifestyle that works for you. These are helpful links for everything from nutrition & physical health to mental & emotional well-being (including yoga, meditation & mindfulness). At the bottom, you’ll find a list of my favorite books, each of them full of life-changing wisdom.
Healthy Lifestyle Resources for Your Body
- Dr. Weill (great source for nutrition & holistic health)
- Wellness Mama (a robust blog with healthy lifestyle resources for nutrition, natural home & remedy solutions)
- Nutrition Stripped (great site to find up-to-date nutrition information, healthy recipes, and overall inspiration for healthy living)
- Ayurveda Experience (Ayurveda is yoga’s sister science, with type-specific diet and lifestyle recommendations & natural healing techniques.)
- Selfhacked (learn about cutting-edge, science-based health solutions)
- Mindbodygreen (healthy lifestyle hub, from nutrition to wellness to beauty & even mindfulness)
Yoga & Mindfulness
- Yoga Journal (the go-to yoga blog)
- Plum Village (Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness community)
- Yoga International (another great yoga site that includes online instruction)
- Bad Yogi (a fun, not so serious yoga site with articles as well as online instruction)
- Mindful (a great resource for information, instruction, & inspiration on mindfulness)
- Meditation Finder (locate a local meditation center)
Mental & Emotional Health Resources
- Psychology Today (helpful & insightful articles on mental & emotional health, plus a directory for local counselors)
- Happiful (news, research, inspirational & interesting reads on topics related to mental & emotional health)
- Your Brain Health (learn about neuroscience & how it can help improve mood and overall mental & emotional well-being)
- The Fix (addiction recovery resource & community)
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (a free course for learning the mindfulness technique developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.)
- Blunt Therapy (a licensed therapist’s blog about mental health, addictions, relationships, and parenting.)
Inspired Reading
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Illusions by Richard Bach
- Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind by Kristin Neff
- The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
- Beyond Words by Swami Satchidananda
- Light on Yoga by b.k.s. Iyengar