Armina Mevlani

6 Common Toxic Chemicals—and How to Avoid Them

09/08/2022

You’re exposed to hormone-disrupting chemicals every day, just about everywhere. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can interfere with the normal function of our delicate hormone system and play endless tricks on our body. These chemicals can increase the production of certain hormones and decrease the production of others. Some endocrine disruptors imitate hormones or turn one hormone into another and interfere with their signaling. Studies have linked these chemicals to cancer, lowered sperm count, lowered IQ, thyroid disease, birth defects, and other developmental disorders. Given that our hormones are…

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Mindfulness Exercises if MEDITATING ISN’T YOUR THING

09/08/2022

The point of meditation is to surrender and to relinquish control, says Tamarin Oblowitz, M.A. Clinical Psych, spiritual and holistic therapist, and founder of EmpowHER Healing. Raise your hand if the thought of relinquishing control sounds terrifying. For those of us who aren’t big fans of meditation, it’s OK—there are other mindfulness modalities we can try that offer similar benefits (think: decreased anxiety, increased self-awareness, more creativity). Below, Tamarin shares three mindfulness exercises to try if you’re not a fan of meditation. 1. A grounding exercise “Sit upright…

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Daily Habits for Healthy Blood Sugar

08/08/2022

A quick bio lesson: Your body needs energy to maintain normal function. You get that energy from food, which your body breaks down into smaller parts and can either absorb and use or excrete. When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into glucose, a simple sugar that’s your body’s primary source of fuel. Glucose travels through the body in your bloodstream, and it’s taken up by cells—in the muscles, the brain, nearly everywhere—to be converted into energy that…

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Balancing act: how to succeed in the age of hybrid working

08/08/2022

People don’t like commuting – so what?” Such was the aggressive – and very public – response that Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase’s chief executive officer and a billionaire titan of Wall Street, made to the suggestion that hybrid working might be here to stay. That was in May 2021; a year later, he had changed his tune, acknowledging in his annual shareholder letter that at least 40 per cent of employees at America’s largest bank would work partially remotely,…