Wellness Tips
Pregnancy Nausea: 10 Tips to Feel Better Fast
This article was written with help from AI and edited by Thrive Market’s talented team of human writers. Nausea—commonly known as morning sickness—can make any pregnancy challenging. Fortunately, there are several ways to ease the discomfort and feel better fast. Pregnancy Nausea Remedies From stocking up on ginger to getting plenty of fresh air, here ...
Signs of Dehydration in Kids
Staying hydrated is essential at every age. Since our bodies are roughly 50-70 percent water, hydration impacts all sorts of important functions like stabilizing temperature, removing toxins, and keeping joints healthy. But between play time, sports practice, and being active, dehydration in kids can be just as common as in adults. This is especially true ...
1,001+ Fun Facts for Kids
Fun Facts for Kids Infographic click here “Good.” “Fine.” “Okay.” If these are the answers you get after asking how your kids’ day was, shake up family dinner with interesting facts for kids. Bonding over a meal can be a special routine, especially with these conversation starters to pique everyone’s interest. For inquisitive little ones, ...
Essential Oils 101 With Aura Cacia’s Aromatherapist — Plus the Best Blends for Busy Days
Scents, especially those found in nature, can be powerful. They might add an instant boost of energy to your day or encourage you to take a deep breath and find a moment of calm. That’s aromatherapy at work: the practice of using essential oils to enhance well-being. For more than four decades, Aura Cacia has ...
The Best Health & Wellness Advice We Got from Experts in 2023
Setting goals for the year ahead? You may look to the experts for guidance on how to focus your thinking to create a better future for yourself and the planet. Over the past year, we interviewed a diverse group of thinkers from the worlds of food, environmentalism, wellness, fitness, and beyond on the Thrive Market ...
But Are You Thriving? Episode 6 Recap: Biohacking Family Wellness with Katie Wells
Biohacking involves “hacking” your body’s biology with nutritional changes, supplements, and other lifestyle adjustments in order to improve brain health, sleep, and other functions. It may seem like an individual practice, but for Katie Wells (also known as the “Wellness Mama”), biohacking is beneficial for both your own health and your family’s greater wellbeing. Katie ...
But Are You Thriving? Episode 5 Recap: Connecting to Your Inner Wisdom with Byron Katie
Many people would say that to really thrive, you have to do the work. But what, really, is “the work”? For Byron Katie, her practice—known as The Work—is a way of looking inward to solve difficult problems and find joy in your life. With both The Work and her book, Loving What Is, Katie encourages ...
What is Cryotherapy? The Benefits, History & Risks Behind the Wellness Craze
Your body has temporary physical reactions to cold—goosebumps, chattering teeth, maybe a jolt of adrenaline from the sudden chill—but did you know that cold may also have more long-lasting health benefits? That’s the idea behind cryotherapy, a popular wellness practice that involves using extreme cold to help treat depression, chronic pain, fatigue, and other ailments. ...
The Best Health & Wellness Tips We Got From Experts in 2022
The end of the year is a chance to look forward and make goals for how to do better in the year ahead—for ourselves, our people, and our planet. This year, we shared inspiring, thought-provoking, and beneficial advice from a diverse group of experts on the Thrive Market blog. Whether your goal in the new ...
Not Drinking This Holiday? Here’s How to Navigate Party Season
From spiked eggnog and hot toddies to wine and champagne, the holiday season is an alcohol-heavy time of year. For people who don’t drink (or just aren’t drinking right now), that can be a challenge.
11 High Blood Sugar Symptoms, Plus Tips for Boosting Metabolic Health
If the mention of blood sugar makes you think of an elderly relative pricking their finger with a glucose monitor, it’s a common connection to make. (In 2020, 26% of adults over 65 had diabetes.) But high blood sugar isn’t just a concern for diabetics. This wellness marker is important to monitor at every age, ...
Golde Founder Trinity Mouzon Wofford is Helping Create a More Inclusive Wellness Industry
Ask most people, and they’ll likely agree that health and well-being are basic rights that everyone deserves. As an industry, though, “wellness” is not nearly as inclusive. The commodification of wellness has created a sort of exclusive club that requires a certain level of wealth and privilege to enter, often to the detriment of people ...
A Health Coach’s Tips on Goal Setting
Another new year is right around the corner, and maybe you’re thinking, this will be the year I [fill in the blank]. Here’s a tip: if you spend all your time thinking about the long list of goals you want to achieve and forget to consider why you want to achieve them and how you’re ...
How to Improve Digestion with Erica Zellner of Parsley Health
The last thing anyone wants to worry about during the holidays is moderation—including, believe it or not, a certified health coach and gut health expert. “The holidays are a time to really enjoy some delicious foods and time with friends and family,” says Erica Zellner, MS, CNS, LDN, and Senior Health Coach at Parsley Health, ...
Coping With Burnout: Create a Mental Health Toolkit for Times of Stress
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and generally burnt out lately, you’re not alone. It would be nearly impossible to not feel burnt out by some area of your life after the past year: a global pandemic, a sudden switch to remote learning or working (or some combination of the two), financial uncertainty, perhaps an overcrowded ...
How to Get Energy Without Caffeine
Some people (like Michael Pollan in his new book, This Is Your Mind on Plants) have argued that caffeine powers the modern workforce. If you agree, you probably see your morning cup as an absolute must. But we promise, there are ways to sharpen your mind and get your energy flowing that don’t start with ...
Thrive Market Employees’ Favorite Wellness Habits (And Why They Work)
Scroll through Instagram or talk to a well-intentioned friend and you’re bound to get some unsolicited wellness advice: tips for better sleep, better skin, even better brain function. But the true definition of wellness is much more individualized (and, often, much simpler). It may be something as small as taking a few moments to yourself ...
Seventh Generation’s Female Scientists on Empowering Women in STEM
As children, girls are told that they can do anything boys can do—but as students, they’re not always given the resources to back up this promise. Females encounter gender stereotypes early on in the classroom, and these messages have real effects on the career paths they pursue. Female-identifying students are encouraged to be creative, not ...
Find Calm in One Minute with This Breathing Exercise for Anxiety
From the daily challenges of the “new normal” to the nightly news, by now you’ve probably noticed that the arrival of 2021 didn’t exactly erase all the stress of 2020. While you can’t do much about what’s going on around you, what is within your control is how you react—which means having a few coping ...
Home for the Holidays? 30 Ideas for Keeping it Festive
Normally, the holiday season would be in full swing by now… but this year hasn’t exactly been normal. Perhaps the last weeks of 2020 find you scaling down your festive feast for two, swapping the annual blowout bash for a low-key gathering in your living room, or raising a toast via Zoom. This year really ...
Learn How This Holistic Approach to Self-Care Can Help You Find Balance
The past few months have pushed all of us to reassess how we are practicing self-care. Taking deliberate steps to care for our mental, emotional, and physical health is incredibly important, now more than ever. And while these habits are developing new significance in our own lives, health-boosting practices such as Ayurveda have been integral ...
How to Cope With Stress Featuring Therapist Michelle Massi
Learning how to handle stress effectively should be a part of everyone’s quarantine survival strategy. We’ve all been forced into new routines, which means families are navigating school closures (and close quarters) and employees are working from home—plus, there’s the added stress of the virus itself. Understandably, our minds can quickly go from fine to ...
Find Peace at Home: Setting Up a Space to Recharge
For many of us, personal space is at a premium these days. If you’re finding yourself overwhelmed, stressed, or burned out, it’s time to create more peace at home. Since we’re spending so much time indoors, even small shifts like moving a candle to your nightstand or trying a new tea blend can go a ...
How to Cope With Stress Featuring Dr. Stephen Dansiger
Learning how to handle stress effectively should be part of everyone’s quarantine survival strategy. We’ve all been forced into new routines, which means families are balancing school closures and close quarters, and employees are working from home—not to mention the stress of the virus itself. Our minds can quickly go from fine to panicked in ...