Don’t you love random “holidays?” Things like “Happy Hump Day” or “It’s my half-birthday” are really just excuses to declare to the world, “I want to feel good today!”  But they do the trick, and I think we need more of them.  Starting with “Feel Better Day,” that day when you realize after a cold…

We’ve all heard the phrase, attributed to peace activist Anne Herbert, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”  So here’s a question: Have you done any lately?  Seen any?  I suspect that among you are many perpetrators of such acts, we’d love to gather them to show how kindness is the rule,…

Sometimes holistic spirituality and traditional religion cross paths, and today’s “Blessing of the Sun” ritual that Jews will observe just before Passover begins is one of those moments.  In honor of this rare Jewish astrological phenomenon, we offer a guest post from Michael Kress, Beliefnet’s managing editor and friend of Fresh Living: This morning, I…

Last night, at the aquacise class I take at my local Boys & Girl’s Club, I witnessed the most amazing thing – a grown woman overcoming a lifelong fear of the deep end of the pool.  The class is all done in the deep water, and we wear these water aerobics float-y belts (they must…

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