Category: Radiant Life

Creating a Low Maintenance Garden

Enjoying a morning coffee or cup of tea surrounded by the peaceful harmony of a beautiful, lush garden is a relaxing way to begin any day. It is even more satisfying when you’ve created the environment yourself. Of course, maintaining that beautiful garden sometimes delivers the opposite of relaxation. If you find your summer months…


How to Fill Your Garden for Less

For those who love gardening, nothing beats a few hours meandering the aisles of your favorite garden center. Down every row and around every corner, you discover beautiful blooms and lush greenery easily visualized in your own garden. But those inspiring visits can quickly put a dent in your wallet. Buying bigger plants can be…


How to Create the Ultimate Small Space Garden

For those living in an urban setting, growing vegetables or creating an outdoor sanctuary of greenery and blooms can seem like an impossible dream. When confronted with tiny terraces or balconies, many would-be gardeners living in apartments or small city spaces give up before they start. The great news is with just a bit of…


Getting Started with Your First Garden

Few things in life are as satisfying as reaping a harvest you’ve grown yourself. Whether you’re nibbling a carrot you started from seed or enjoying a bouquet of flowers picked from your flowerbeds, creating and caring for a garden is a rewarding hobby. If the idea of starting a garden from scratch is intimidating, fear…


When Posting Online Becomes Our Lives

On a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art with a friend and her daughter, meandering through the museum’s exhibits, I was struck by how often my friend’s 13-year-old daughter asked us to take photos of her in front of the artwork. Her head tilted, she gazed contemplatively at the pieces, the photos of which…


Coping With the Oxygen Paradox

Oxygen is essential to our survival, and yet this toxic, mutagenic, and highly reactive gas also has the capacity to destroy us. The destructive side of oxygen is called oxidation. Slow oxidation turns cut apples brown and hard metal brittle with rust. Rapid oxidation destroys things more quickly, in an exothermic chemical process of combustion,…


The Way of Openness

We are capable of any kind of change.


Raw Honey: A Natural Sweetener With Health Benefits

Consuming honey, nature’s sweet gift freely given through the work and movement of honeybees, gets sweeter in light of its wide-ranging health benefits. If you reach for honey for your cup of freshly brewed tea or to sweeten your homemade desserts, you may already know that science favors honey for its wholesome health benefits versus…


Boost Dopamine Naturally for Better Motivation and Focus

It’s time to get the scoop on dopamine, a substance in your brain that is also known as the motivation molecule. Your body is home to about 60 different molecules known as neurotransmitters that transfer information between your brain cells and your body. We’re writing about dopamine because, well, we were motivated! What Are Neurotransmitters?…


Simple Ways to Avoid Athletic Injuries

Whether you’re a weekend warrior or you get your exercise walking the dog, chances are that if you’re physically active, at some point you’ve been on the receiving end of an athletic injury. Believe me, there is nothing worse than to be hobbled by an injury just before your big tournament, an active vacation, or…