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Martha Kester
Slow Cooker Winter Vegetable Soup

Slow Cooker Winter Vegetable Soup

This easy crockpot meal from S & W Beans will become your favorite, hearty meal on a cold night.  It is full of fiber and the kale brings a pop of color!  There is minimal prep and the meal is not only healthy but loaded with taste.  Enjoy!  

Slow Cooker Turkey Chili

Slow Cooker Turkey Chili

This easy crockpot meal, from Two Peas & Their Pod, will become your favorite meal on a cold night.  The prep involved is opening up cans and dumping into the crockpot plus cutting up peppers and an onion- so basically minimal prep.  Finally, This meal can easily...

Slow Cooker Chicken & White Bean Stew

Slow Cooker Chicken & White Bean Stew

This easy crockpot meal from EatingWell will become your favorite meal on a cold night.  There is minimal prep and the meal is not only healthy but loaded with taste.  Enjoy!  

3 Most Important Routines You Can Establish For Your Health

3 Most Important Routines You Can Establish For Your Health

Happy New Year!    Instead of talking habits, which seems to be a very popular topic right now (rightly, so as habits are very important in establishing a healthy lifestyle), I want to focus on routines.  If you are a person who picks a word to focus on each year,...

Are You Using the Right Fuel?

Are You Using the Right Fuel?

     Toys, TV remotes, flashlights, smoke alarms, cars and boats are all items that need the exact, certain battery to work properly.  Some take triple A’s while others require double A’s or 9 volts.  Cars would never run on a triple A likewise TV remotes wouldn’t...

‘Tis the Season

‘Tis the Season

    Want to give the gift of health this year?  Spreading health is never a bad thing and because of that I am sharing a list of 66 healthy ideas at all price points. Packet of classes to a local yoga studio (Effervesence or Balance Fitness in Beaufort) Gift...

Taking 1 Step at a Time

Taking 1 Step at a Time

I do my best to "walk my talk" as a health coach because I truly believe what I encourage my clients to do is also good for me.  I wanted to share with you what I have been working on lately.  I have a goal to increase my VO2 max.  Basically, VO2 is a measure of the...

Here is The Secret to Behavior Change

Here is The Secret to Behavior Change

Is it motivation or action that leads to results?  If you believe it is motivation, you are wrong.  I wanted to spend time today explaining why this is.  I hear it all the time “I am just not motivated” and I get that.  Motivation comes and goes and can’t be relied...

8 Methods to Manage Stress

8 Methods to Manage Stress

     Even though six years have passed, I still think of my time in the classroom especially this time of year (end of July beginning of August).  I remember not looking forward to the end of July because it was a reminder that school was quickly approaching. ...

6 Ways to Improve Social Wellness

6 Ways to Improve Social Wellness

    .    There is so much hate in this world.  Have you noticed it?  You can’t scroll through Facebook without seeing a political post about Roe vs. Wade followed by hateful comments.  The hate isn’t just on social media.  Just yesterday, a man yelled at me for not...