Health and Wellness

DISCLAIMER- Mario writes about her personal experience with breast cancer and is trying to articulate the struggles she has with medication side effects, survivorship decisions, and mortality. Many people tolerate hormone blockade without significant side effects. She absolutely believes...

I consider myself a light drinker, but undertaking the challenge of Dry January in Vermont proved more difficult than I expected. Forced sobriety brought into painful focus the negative impact of our seasonal darkness and cold punctuated pathetically by...

Send yourself some love...because life is too damn short to worry about your cellulite! My relationship with my thighs has always been rocky. Even when my thighs were younger, I never liked them. Hideous cellulite in a bathing suit, huge pieces of...

We had so much fun at our “Ask the Doctor” event in partnership with The University of Vermont Medical Center! Scout and Company graciously opening up their space to us for this event and their North Ave. location was the perfect spot!...

If we're friends in real life, or you follow me on Facebook, you might be surprised to hear I have postpartum depression. I was surprised too. I don’t often feel “depressed” and wasn’t living the picture of depression that I...

{Disclaimer: We are working with Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center to bring you this post, however, all opinions are our own!} Exercise and motherhood are not always two words that go well together. It can be a real struggle to make time...

The month of May has rolled around yet again; it’s Better Speech and Hearing Month. Part of my role as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) is to promote awareness of speech development delays and disorders treated by our field. This May,...

As a 5-year-old child, I had a terrible experience lasting several hours, during which I remember thinking that I should just let the people involved kill me, because the torture of letting them hurt me and of knowing that...

For many of us, the time has come to start prepping for our kids to leave for college. Shopping lists may include shampoo, soap, shower caddy, mattress pad, storage bins, extra long sheets, travel mug, desk lamp, fan, etc....

{Disclaimer: BurlingtonVT Moms Blog has partnered with O'Neill Tutoring for this sponsored post, to bring families relevant information about her tutoring and therapy services.} I love what I do: I offer emotional and academic support to children and families at O'Neill Tutoring. My...

The First Hour after Birth: A Baby’s 9 Instinctive Stages So much effort is devoted to preparing for labor and birth throughout pregnancy, but what happens after the baby is born?! One minute, your baby was in your womb, and...

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was glad to put 2016 to bed. Yes, there were some good times, but it seemed as though the world finally gave in to its baser chaotic instincts. So many...

Now that print is dead, maple syrup is the best thing to come from trees. With Maple Open House Weekend and the Vermont Maple Festival behind us, my family is on an extreme maple kick. I have to say “extreme”...

Fire. Earth. Metal. Water. Wood. The Five Elements in Chinese Medicine represent a theoretical foundation for how nature acts, and in turn, how our bodies, mind, and spirit interact with nature. The Five Elements can be broken down into categories relating to...