Mastering Your Stress: The Ultimate Toolkit for Effective Stress Management

August 12, 2024 Yvonne Matthews

As someone who thinks of herself as a pretty positive and generally happy person, I have felt a lot of stress the last few years. I did a good job at justifying why I was stressed from my past experiences to injuries to school and work, and well you get the picture.

But really, if it’s not one thing isn’t it always something else?

As many of my clients have excess and/or chronic stress regularly, I often find myself talking about the physical, mental and emotional consequences of stress on the body and mind. Then together with my clients we will go through strategies to reduce and manage stress and how to build their self-care toolbox.

The Missing Key to your Health & Wellness: Sleep

May 17, 2022 Yvonne Matthews

To tell you sleep is important is the understatement of the century, if you ask me. And I know it's no big news to you.

Most of us know we should get 7-9 hours of quality sleep a night. BUT... if I told you all the ways sleep is important you might be surprised.

Here's the top 10 Reasons Sleep is crucial to our health and wellbeing…

Balancing Hormones Series – Healing Hormonal Acne for Glowy Clear Skin

September 18, 2018 Yvonne Matthews

This is a very personal post for me. This is where huge change started for me and really how I got to where I am now.

I’ve posted the detailed story here and here. But the short version is that back when I was in high school I was put on birth control to help alleviate the debilitating cramps that came with my period plus the teenage acne that embarrassed me so much. About 14 years later, in 2012, I had a steady partner (now husband) and decided to try getting off the only prescription medication I was on, not to get pregnant, but simply because I kept reading more and more how it wasn’t great for women to be on these synthetic hormones and not have a Real monthly cycle. Little did I know what I was in for! All that hormonal acne from my teens came rushing back, along with the total embarrassment and shame. How could I, a seemingly healthy 20-something year old, STILL have a face full of acne!?!?