How important is self-love to you? I remember one particular day while I’m on duty, it was a long and exhausting shift, doing the area activities while mentoring students. By the end of the day, I felt completely drained, wanting to rest immediately after going home. As I sat down …
Prioritizing your wellbeing: The importance of self-love
Five Senses Grounding Technique: A Simple Practice to Calm Anxiety
Right now, many people around the world are already experiencing heightened levels of uncertainty and stress. Large scale issues such as conflicts, political instability, climate-related disasters, economic pressures, rapid technological change, and the lingering effects of global health crises have created a constant backdrop of unease. Alongside these global challenges, …
3 Morning Habits to Start the Day Gently
Mornings don’t have to be a mad dash! They don’t have to start with five alarms, emails, messages, and a gallon of caffeine to awaken your senses. Instead, turn your mornings into something gentle. Not perfect. Not rushed. Just grounded, calm, and thankful for the new beginning! As someone who …
Daily Habits of Healthy Professionals (A Realistic Edition)
Let’s be honest – not everyone of us has time to wake up at 5 AM, journal, do yoga for an hour, and make a healthy smoothie before work. Real life is sometimes messy. You’re balancing everything, meetings, deadlines, family, traffic, and sometimes just trying to survive the day. But …
3 Common Health Risks in Small Businesses and Ways to Fix Them
When we think of workplace safety, most people imagine construction sites, manufacturing or factories. But did you know that even small retail shops like sari-sari stores, salons, offices, or cafes can have hidden health risks that affect both the employees and business owner? As an occupational health nurse and workplace …
Foods to include in a healthy meal preparation
Health is wealth as they say! That’s why including foods that are healthy in our diet is a big factor to achieving this. In order to create a balanced and healthy meal, you can consider including the following foods during mealtime. Protein rich foods: Contain a high concentration of protein …
The benefits of mindfulness and meditation in our health
There are essential practices that we can incorporate into our daily routines to promote our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. These can help us to live a healthier lifestyle and a more balanced life. Mindfulness is the application of bringing one’s attention to the present moment without judgement. It includes …
The alarming impact of added sugars and ways to limit it
The presence of added sugars in our diet increases our risks to serious health concerns. The excessive use or consumption of added sugars in our food or drinks have been linked to a lot of negative outcomes, and these includes the following: It is important for individuals to manage and …
8 Tips to improve the quality of your sleep
A quality sleep is referring to both the duration and the depth of sleep that a person experiences daily. It deals with the ability to fall asleep and remain asleep throughout the night with minimal disturbances, and be able to wake up on bed feeling well-rested and refreshed. A high-quality …
How to handle difficult patients?
We can define “difficult patients” as individuals who present some challenges in a healthcare setting. These are patients who are confrontational, uncooperative, demanding, non-compliant with the treatment and intervention or manifest dissatisfaction in a way that generate a challenging environment for health care providers. Dealing with these patients requires empathy …
Tips to avoid being overwhelmed by busy schedule
Being overwhelmed by a busy schedule is when we feel or experience a sense of extreme stressed, anxiety or inability to cope with the demands of so many tasks and responsibilities at hand. This can show as a feeling of being burdened, having inadequate time to finish everything, and struggling …
The significant role of good sleep in overall health and well-being
A good sleep is a state of rest in which there is a sufficient and high-quality of sleep that is being experience by an individual. A good sleep allows the body to undergo essential processes for mental and physical well-being. It brings a balance of deep and REM (or rapid …