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Thriving Health Reflections
With the launching of this new year, I shared with you 5 habits I plan to personally practice for 2020. Now it is time to reflect on and...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Jan 13, 20203 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Purpose Part 2
Our purpose in life produces a level of happiness that directly benefits our health. Last week, we discussed this phenomenon, and the...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Nov 28, 20182 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Purpose Part 1
There are many tools and elements needed to build a thriving lifestyle, which we have examined within this series. They equip us to...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Nov 14, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Stress Management
Strength is developed through resistance, force, and stress. So, stress may be a benefit to our health when properly managed. Neglect,...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Nov 7, 20182 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Relationships Part 3
Relationships require work. This is a truth of which I’m certain we can all agree. While the value of relationships to our health...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Oct 30, 20182 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Relationships Part 2
Healthy relationships are a crucial ingredient for our thriving lifestyle. Developing or growing them, however, can be an increasing...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Oct 24, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Relationships Part 1
There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth....

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 26, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Exercise
Movement is critical to a healthy lifestyle. If you look back through history, over the last couple centuries it is evident how we have...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 25, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Recreation
Recreation is the next building block of a thriving lifestyle. In some ways, it may seem to overlap with our study of rest, and in other...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 24, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Fasting
The practice of fasting spans history, cultures, and religions; and in recent years, has grown in popularity within the health field. It...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 17, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Sleep
With the busyness of life and varying seasons, many of us experience short nights and long days. However, a severe imbalance of rest has...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 10, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Work-Life Balance
Balancing a work schedule and the rest of life is an ever present challenge and stress for many individuals and families. Depending on...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Sep 4, 20183 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Defining Rest
June 2020 (Covid-19) The last several months have been such a derailment of plans and goals for many of us. Whether out of work, working...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Aug 27, 20182 min read
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Building a Thriving Lifestyle: Introduction
Health goes beyond the nutrients our bodies need for optimal function, to the lifestyles we choose and practice. I discussed this in my...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Aug 20, 20182 min read
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The Six Protagonists of Craving: Part 2
There are a multitude of reasons we crave the foods we do. Last week, I defined them within six categories--which I playfully termed the...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
May 14, 20182 min read
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The Six Protagonists of Craving: Part 1
Why do we desire and choose to eat the foods we eat? Perhaps this seems like a very silly question! The answer is obvious, right? As I...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
May 7, 20182 min read
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What is Thriving Health?
What is Thriving Health? Happy New Year! 2018 has begun and I am so excited to begin a fresh season...which happens to include starting...

Maria Boyuk FNTP
Jan 8, 20182 min read
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