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Gut health is connected to everything in your body; I remind my patients this often. According to new research, even your good night sleep may depend on your digestive health. You may blame stress, anxiety, memories popping up, depression, racing thoughts, adrenaline, loud neighbors, too much light, and so on for lying awake at night. The truth is that your gut may be what is keeping you awake. Study: The Gut-Sleep Connection New research indicates…
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Motivation
Stop Hiding Behind Your Excuses and Live Your Truth
What excuses do you hear yourself making to other people and to yourself on a regular basis? Have you ever taken the time to analyze why you are making those excuses? Ask yourself: “Is this a genuine excuse?” Or, is it you trying to hide behind a lie because you are uncomfortable with the truth? Authenticity doesn’t just mean being real with other people. It also means being real with yourself. Be honest with yourself. Cut through the BS that…
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Health
Is Poor Gut Health Responsible For Your Sleep Problems?
Gut health is connected to everything in your body; I remind my patients this often. According to new research, even your good night sleep may depend on your digestive health. You may blame stress, anxiety, memories popping up, depression, racing thoughts, adrenaline, loud neighbors, too much light, and so on for lying awake at night. The truth is that your gut may be what is keeping you awake. Study: The Gut-Sleep Connection New research indicates that there is a strong…
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Simple Steps
Why 5 Steps to Achieve Happiness Aren’t Going to Serve You!
Everybody's always looking for 5 Steps for tackling stress, anxiety (or whatever else it is they want to ‘fix’). As a society, we are always seeking answers as to how to become more peaceful, how to access more joy, how to experience more love — the list is endless. What strikes me is that we all want the same things. I came to realise, that it's so tempting, as a writer, to just write for what people want to hear.…
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Health
My Top Ten List for Staying Healthy
I have always thought of myself as a holistic doctor. To many, that means I have exchanged my training in western/allopathic medicine for more alternative, less conventional diagnostics and treatments. However, my definition of a holistic doctor, and how I fashion myself, is one who helps others balance the whole of their health: body, mind, and spirit. Western medicine focuses on the first of these and most conventional approaches start with the notion that disorders of the mind and spirit…
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McGill Lifestyle
Happy Birthday and Anniversary!
Happy Birthday Bryant! To my wonder-twin and best friend. Every year that goes by I feel even more grateful for the gift of our love, companionship, and mission. Today, I am celebrating you, a wondrous soul who brings me, and so many people around the world so much hope and meaning. Your astounding genius, strength, INTEGRITY, perseverance, and never-ending championing of the human spirit makes me and the girls so proud of you. I am so blessed to be your…
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Simple Steps
Why 5 Steps to Achieve Happiness Aren’t Going to Serve You!
Everybody's always looking for 5 Steps for tackling stress, anxiety (or whatever else it is they want to ‘fix’). As a society, we are always seeking answers as to how to become more peaceful, how to access more joy, how to experience more love — the list is endless. What strikes me is that we all want the same things. I came to realise, that it's so tempting, as a writer, to just write for what people want to hear.…
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Simple Steps
10 Steps to Living a More Meaningful Life
You can have a richer more meaningful life. You can increase the depth and meaning of your life. You can increase the quality of your experience of your life. Here are 10 steps to help you get more out of life: 1. Take the time to really get to know yourself What makes you tick? What are you interested in? What do you emotionally attach to? What are you passionate about? What brings you satisfaction? What brings you peace? If…
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The Power of Your Inner Fire and 4 Steps to Keep it Burning
Have you ever wondered what it is that motivates men and women to do great things? Have you ever read an interview with a successful entrepreneur, business person, or CEO and wondered what it is about them that makes things seem to just happen for them? Have you ever watched a football game and been amazed at the athleticism involved in a given play? What is the common factor that all these people share? What is it about them that…
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Health
Is Poor Gut Health Responsible For Your Sleep Problems?
Gut health is connected to everything in your body; I remind my patients this often. According to new research, even your good night sleep may depend on your digestive health. You may blame stress, anxiety, memories popping up, depression, racing thoughts, adrenaline, loud neighbors, too much light, and so on for lying awake at night. The truth is that your gut may be what is keeping you awake. Study: The Gut-Sleep Connection New research indicates that there is a strong…
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Suggested Health Features
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Health
Stock Your Kitchen With These Cancer-Fighting Foods
Your nutritional choices play a big part in your overall health. That’s why it’s so important to nourish your body with healthy foods. Food is powerful. It can fight off depression, boost your mood and even help prevent cancer and other illnesses. Food is medicine, and when you use food this way, you’re committing to a lifestyle change. The key is to keep things simple and sustainable. That’s why i love this list of cancer-fighting foods. They’re delicious, versatile, accessible…
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Plants That Many Consider to Be Weeds are Actually Powerful Medicinal Herbs
Weeds are plants that grow where they’re not wanted, where they “steal” nutrients meant for desired crops. However, not all weeds are pests. Some can be sources of food or have medicinal properties, and other benefits that may make you see these plants in a new light. While some weeds can be beneficial, you must first consider the area. If you decide you’re going to forage, check for hazards such as signs of pollution or pollutants, pesticides, herbicides, or other…
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Growth
Create a Life You Love with the Powerful Intentions
We all have different roles that we play in life. Often, those roles come with many obligations. We have a choice of whether we feel forced to meet those obligations, or whether we do things because we actually want to. The impact of that choice is tremendous. When we feel forced to do something, we build resistance. Often that resistance is subconscious. It slowly builds under the surface. Eventually, that resistance turns into conflict. As the conflict rises we become…
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Simple Steps
How I Turned My “Disability” into “Loving Defiance” in Three Steps
In late 2015, I began my journey of self-discovery. I started reading social media posts and watching online videos. I was on a quest for any information I could find to get unstuck from this definition of “disability” and find my way to the life that I so desperately wanted. I was born with a developmental disability. When you are born with a disability or a chronic illness, it is always with you. From childhood to adulthood. You are conditioned…
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Growth
7 Ways Our Pursuit of Happiness has Gone Wrong
Are you really happy? If not, do you know what it would take to make you happy? Sure, “I’ll be happy when…” You fill in the blank. My observation is that most of us attribute happiness to safety and security. Don’t you remember when you were in high school? Didn’t it feel good when you were accepted by the “in” crowd? I recall when I made the track team, I felt really happy. The truth was that I was happy…
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Success
The Power Within
Effective words reverberate so much like booming thunder and forceful lightning that even those that have been completely forgotten shall be remembered. The power of words can even withstand the test of time. Decades turn into a century, and soon millennium enjoys its time, yet the efficacy of words shall never enter the black hole of nothingness. They may be considered dead, but their epitaphs shall linger on and history will still have her pages available. Just like a sincere…
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Most Discussed
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Relationships
The Toxic Relationship Ne Plus Ultra Warning — You cannot save everyone, but you can save yourself…
Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live…
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Success
Bryant & Jenni — A True Love Story
McGill Media and Simple Reminders is a creation of love, and hand-built homestead to thought-leaders, Bryant McGill & Jenni Young McGill — a couple on a mission to inspire and uplift, with daily empowering messages and soulful sharing. Their writings, videos, photography, and messages reach over a billion people every year. (Video) Bryant and Jenni met in Hollywood and have been full-time, creative entrepreneurs for over 17 years. They joined hands and hearts on Bryant’s birthday, and haven’t been separated…
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Moving from the slime to the sublime! Don’t be NamNastay.com
There is an unseen essential that is intrinsic, universal and guiding everyone who listens. There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives. Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; there are so many educated and brilliant people who have failed utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; think of how…
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Motivation
Stop Hiding Behind Your Excuses and Live Your Truth
What excuses do you hear yourself making to other people and to yourself on a regular basis? Have you ever taken the time to analyze why you are making those excuses? Ask yourself: “Is this a genuine excuse?” Or, is it you trying to hide behind a lie because you are uncomfortable with the truth? Authenticity doesn’t just mean being real with other people. It also means being real with yourself. Be honest with yourself. Cut through the BS that…
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Relationships
What Kenny Rogers Taught Me About Relationships
You know the lyrics from the popular song, The Gambler, by Kenny Rogers. “You’ve got to know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em, know when to walk away and know when to run.” Well as silly as it may sound, that song taught me more about relationships and boundaries than any college book, psychology class, or overpriced therapist ever could. Here’s what I learned. You got to know when to hold’em — Or in other words, it isn’t time…
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Today's Relationship Advice
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Relationships
Will It Be Worth It?
We don’t want to have to. We just want it to work out. We do everything we can to prove that we belong, that we’re in the right place, that he’s the right one for us. We play the part, we take on the role, we pour all our time and energy into making this our place. Except that forcing something that isn’t meant to be forced — that doesn’t want to be forced — never works out in the…
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Simple Steps
Why 5 Steps to Achieve Happiness Aren’t Going to Serve You!
Everybody's always looking for 5 Steps for tackling stress, anxiety (or whatever else it is they want to ‘fix’). As a society, we are always seeking answers as to how to become more peaceful, how to access more joy, how to experience more love — the list is endless. What strikes me is that we all want the same things. I came to realise, that it's so tempting, as a writer, to just write for what people want to hear.…
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Culture
Spectrum of Humanity
After several decades of struggle, it is now recognized that diversity is not just a caprice of some optimists and realists. Perhaps it would take other millennia before everybody completely embraces the wonders behind our differences. Nevertheless, one thing will always remain certain: it is universally accepted fact that we all want to be included in the civilization of human race worthy of appreciation. To enumerate the entire spectrum of humanity is somehow impossible, yet it is my singular honor…
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