This week, Morgan, RN, and her friend Ann speak to a study on teen pregnancy prevention. When a group of pregnant teen girls was asked, “What can be done to lower the teen pregnancy rate?” their answer was, “Teach us how to say no and not hurt our boyfriend’s feelings.” Education on healthy relationships is…
Self-Care
Restful Sleep for a Spring in Your Step
Thank you to all who completed our sleep survey! What did we learn? When it comes to healthy sleep, our worst habit is shutting off electronics ahead of our bedtime. 33% of those surveyed reported having their phone on as they went to bed. Our best sleep habit was utilizing a noise machine to minimize…
Healthy Sleep for Impactful Days
World Sleep Day is on March 17, advocating for healthy sleep, conveniently just a few days after the Spring Ahead of Daylight Savings. Even though I know sleep is important (and enjoyable!), I remember being a young adult and between having a job, friends, homework, and spending time with my family, healthy sleep was literally…
Cervical Health: What you need to know
January is Cervical Health Awareness month, so what better time to talk about cervical health! I know I was never taught the importance of yearly well-woman checks or PAP tests. I only found out these were things women needed to do when I was in nursing school. To me, that is crazy! But all women deserve to know this information….
New Year, New Me
Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. I know I feel like we just celebrated 2022, so it’s wild to think it’s already 2023! Thinking back to the beginning of 2022, I would not have been able to guess I would be where I am today. So much has…
Let’s Talk Self-care
Hello again! A couple weeks ago I talked about how I was “running on E.” I was feeling really overwhelmed with all life was throwing at me and I realized I needed to take better care of myself. It seems like many people can relate to this. We get so used to taking care of…
Running on E
Hello again friends! It has been a minute since I last posted anything on the blog. To be honest my life is really crazy right now and I was feeling a little overwhelmed with all the things going on, that this blog was at the bottom of my list of things to worry about. But…